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200 10$aAnthropic bias $eobservation selection effects in science and philosophy /$fNick Bostrom
210  1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2002.
215   $a1 online resource (241 p.)
225 1 $aStudies in philosophy
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
327   $a""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION""; ""Observation selection effects""; ""A brief history of anthropic reasoning""; ""Synopsis of this book""; ""Chapter 2 FINE-TUNING IN COSMOLOGY""; ""Does fine-tuning need explaining?""; ""No a???Inverse Gamblera???s Fallacya???""; ""Roger White and Phil Dowea???s analysis""; ""Surprising vs. unsurprising improbable events""; ""Modeling observation selection effects: the angel parable""; ""Preliminary conclusions""; ""Chapter 3 ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES: THE MOTLEY FAMILY""
327   $a""The anthropic principle as expressing an observation selection effect""""Anthropic hodgepodge""; ""Freak observers and why earlier formulations are inadequate""; ""The Self-Sampling Assumption""; ""Chapter 4 THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS SUPPORTING THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Dungeon gedanken""; ""Two thought experiments by John Leslie""; ""The Incubator gedanken""; ""The reference class problem""; ""Chapter 5 THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION IN SCIENCE""; ""SSA in cosmology""; ""SSA in thermodynamics""; ""SSA in evolutionary biology""; ""SSA in traffic analysis""; ""SSA in quantum physics""
327   $a""Summary of the case for SSA""""Chapter 6 THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Background""; ""Doomsayer Gott""; ""The incorrectness of Gotta???s argument""; ""Doomsayer Leslie""; ""The premisses of DA, and the Old evidence problem""; ""Lesliea???s views on the reference class problem""; ""Alternative conclusions of DA""; ""Chapter 7 INVALID OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Doesna???t the Doomsday argument fail to a???target the trutha????""; ""The a???baby-paradoxa???""; ""Isna???t a sample size of one too small?""; ""Couldna???t a Cro-Magnon man have used the Doomsday argument?""
327   $a""We can make the effect go away simply by considering a larger hypothesis space""""Arena???t we necessarily alive now?""; ""Sliding reference of a???soona??? and a???latea????""; ""How could I have been a 16th century human?""; ""Doesna???t your theory presuppose that what happens in causally disconnected regions affects what happens here?""; ""But we know so much more about ourselves than our birth ranks!""; ""The Self-Indication Assumptiona???Is there safety in numbers?""; ""Chapter 8 OBSERVER-RELATIVE CHANCES IN ANTHROPIC REASONING?""; ""Lesliea???s argument, and why it fails""
327   $a""Observer-relative chances: another go""""Discussion: indexical factsa???no conflict with physicalism""; ""In conclusion""; ""Appendix: the no-betting results""; ""Chapter 9 PARADOXES OF THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Adam & Eve experiments""; ""Analysis of Lazy Adam: predictions and counterfactuals""; ""The UN++ gedanken: reasons and abilities""; ""Quantum Joe: SSA and the Principal Principle""; ""Upshot""; ""Appendix: The Meta-Newcomb problem""; ""Chapter 10 OBSERVATION SELECTION THEORY: A METHODOLOGY FOR ANTHROPIC REASONING""; ""Building blocks, theory constraints and desiderata""
327   $a""The outline of a solution""
410  0$aStudies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.)
606   $aMethodology
606   $aAnthropic principle
606   $aSelectivity (Psychology)
606   $aObservation (Scientific method)
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aMethodology.
615  0$aAnthropic principle.
615  0$aSelectivity (Psychology)
615  0$aObservation (Scientific method)
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