|
|
|
|
| LEADER |
00000cam a2200000Mi 4500 |
| 001 |
EBOOKCENTRAL_ocn922959163 |
| 003 |
OCoLC |
| 005 |
20240329122006.0 |
| 006 |
m o d |
| 007 |
cr |n||||||||| |
| 008 |
151017s2013 xx o 000 0 eng d |
| 040 |
|
|
|a EBLCP
|b eng
|e pn
|c EBLCP
|d OCLCQ
|d MERUC
|d ZCU
|d ICG
|d OCLCO
|d OCLCF
|d OCLCQ
|d OCLCO
|d OCLCQ
|d AU@
|d OCLCQ
|d OCLCO
|d OCLCQ
|d OCLCO
|
| 020 |
|
|
|a 9780203953464
|
| 020 |
|
|
|a 0203953460
|
| 035 |
|
|
|a (OCoLC)922959163
|
| 050 |
|
4 |
|a BD241.B657 2002eb
|
| 082 |
0 |
4 |
|a 121/.6
|
| 049 |
|
|
|a UAMI
|
| 100 |
1 |
|
|a Bostrom, Nick.
|
| 245 |
1 |
0 |
|a Anthropic Bias :
|b Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy.
|
| 260 |
|
|
|a Florence :
|b Taylor and Francis,
|c 2013.
|
| 300 |
|
|
|a 1 online resource (241 pages)
|
| 336 |
|
|
|a text
|b txt
|2 rdacontent
|
| 337 |
|
|
|a computer
|b c
|2 rdamedia
|
| 338 |
|
|
|a online resource
|b cr
|2 rdacarrier
|
| 588 |
0 |
|
|a Print version record.
|
| 505 |
0 |
|
|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 “Inverse Gambler�s Fallacy�""; ""Roger White and Phil Dowe�s analysis""; ""Surprising vs. unsurprising improbable events""; ""Modeling observation selection effects: the angel parable""; ""Preliminary conclusions""; ""Chapter 3 ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES: THE MOTLEY FAMILY""
|
| 505 |
8 |
|
|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""
|
| 505 |
8 |
|
|a ""Summary of the case for SSA""""Chapter 6 THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Background""; ""Doomsayer Gott""; ""The incorrectness of Gott�s argument""; ""Doomsayer Leslie""; ""The premisses of DA, and the Old evidence problem""; ""Leslie�s views on the reference class problem""; ""Alternative conclusions of DA""; ""Chapter 7 INVALID OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Doesn�t the Doomsday argument fail to “target the truth�?""; ""The “baby-paradox�""; ""Isn�t a sample size of one too small?""; ""Couldn�t a Cro-Magnon man have used the Doomsday argument?""
|
| 505 |
8 |
|
|a ""We can make the effect go away simply by considering a larger hypothesis space""""Aren�t we necessarily alive now?""; ""Sliding reference of “soon� and “late�?""; ""How could I have been a 16th century human?""; ""Doesn�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 Assumption�Is there safety in numbers?""; ""Chapter 8 OBSERVER-RELATIVE CHANCES IN ANTHROPIC REASONING?""; ""Leslie�s argument, and why it fails""
|
| 505 |
8 |
|
|a ""Observer-relative chances: another go""""Discussion: indexical facts�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""
|
| 500 |
|
|
|a ""The outline of a solution""
|
| 590 |
|
|
|a ProQuest Ebook Central
|b Ebook Central Academic Complete
|
| 650 |
|
0 |
|a Methodology.
|
| 650 |
|
0 |
|a Anthropic principle.
|
| 650 |
|
0 |
|a Selectivity (Psychology)
|
| 650 |
|
0 |
|a Observation (Scientific method)
|
| 650 |
|
6 |
|a Méthodologie.
|
| 650 |
|
6 |
|a Principe anthropique.
|
| 650 |
|
6 |
|a Sélectivité (Psychologie)
|
| 650 |
|
6 |
|a Observation (Méthode scientifique)
|
| 650 |
|
7 |
|a methodology.
|2 aat
|
| 650 |
|
7 |
|a Anthropic principle
|2 fast
|
| 650 |
|
7 |
|a Methodology
|2 fast
|
| 650 |
|
7 |
|a Observation (Scientific method)
|2 fast
|
| 650 |
|
7 |
|a Selectivity (Psychology)
|2 fast
|
| 776 |
0 |
8 |
|i Print version:
|a Bostrom, Nick.
|t Anthropic Bias : Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy.
|d Florence : Taylor and Francis, ©2013
|z 9780415938587
|
| 856 |
4 |
0 |
|u https://ebookcentral.uam.elogim.com/lib/uam-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3061129
|z Texto completo
|
| 938 |
|
|
|a ProQuest Ebook Central
|b EBLB
|n EBL3061129
|
| 994 |
|
|
|a 92
|b IZTAP
|
