A-symmetric confirmation and anthropic skepticism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1486-9
Abstract: In recent years, anthropic reasoning has been used to justify a number of controversial skeptical hypotheses (both scientific and philosophical). In this paper, we consider two prominent examples, viz. Bostrom’s ‘Simulation Argument’ and the problem… read more here.
Keywords: confirmation; anthropic skepticism; cosmology; symmetric confirmation ... See more keywords