Title Anthropic bias : observation selection effects in science and philosophy / Nick Bostrom

Published New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in philosophy Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.) Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Fine-Tuning in Cosmology -- Ch. 3. Anthropic Principles: The Motley Family -- Ch. 4. Thought Experiments Supporting the Self-Sampling Assumption -- Ch. 5. The Self-Sampling Assumption in Science -- Ch. 6. The Doomsday Argument -- Ch. 7. Invalid Objections Against the Doomsday Argument -- Ch. 8. Observer-Relative Chances in Anthropic Reasoning? -- Ch. 9. Paradoxes of the Self-Sampling Assumption -- Ch. 10. Observation Selection Theory: A Methodology for Anthropic Reasoning -- Ch. 11. Observation Selection Theory Applied Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Methodology. Anthropic principle. Selectivity (Psychology) Observation (Scientific method) Philosophy. Science. Science -- Methodology. Observation Observer Variation Evaluation Studies as Topic Philosophy Science Methods methodology. philosophy. sciences (philosophy) science (modern discipline) PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology. Science -- Methodology Science Philosophy Anthropic principle Methodology Observation (Scientific method) Selectivity (Psychology) Anthropisches Prinzip Epistemologia. Cosmologia (filosofia) Méthodologie. Principe anthropique. Observation (méthode scientifique) Form Electronic book ISBN 9781136710995 113671099X 9780203953464 0203953460 0415938589 9780415938587 9781136711008 1136711007 9781136710957 1136710957 1136710973 9781136710971

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