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Self-Locating Priors and Cosmological Measures

Arntzenius, Frank and Dorr, Cian (2016) Self-Locating Priors and Cosmological Measures. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We develop a Bayesian framework for thinking about the way evidence about the here and now can bear on hypotheses about the qualitative character of the world as a whole, including hypotheses according to which the total population of the world is infinite. We show how this framework makes sense of the practice cosmologists have recently adopted in their reasoning about such hypotheses.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Arntzenius, Frankfrank.arntzenius@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Dorr, Ciancian.dorr@nyu.edu
Keywords: anthropic principle, self-locating, baysianism, priors, cosmology, measure problem
Subjects: General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Depositing User: Dr Cian Dorr
Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2016 16:54
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2016 16:54
Item ID: 11864
Subjects: General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Date: 7 February 2016
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11864

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