Self-Locating Belief in Big Worlds: Cosmology’s Missing Link to Observation
Bostrom, Nick (2002) Self-Locating Belief in Big Worlds: Cosmology’s Missing Link to Observation.
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Abstract
Current cosmological theories say that the world is so big that all possible observations are in fact made. But then, how can such theories be tested? What could count as negative evidence? To answer that, we need to consider observation selection effects.
| Keywords: | self-locating belief, anthropic principle, self-sampling assumption, cosmology, indexical evidence, observation, indexical epistemology, observation selection effects, Bayesian, paradox, probability, underdetermination |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Probability/Statistics General Issues: Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences: Physics: Cosmology General Issues: Theory/Observation |
| ID Code: | 1625 |
| Deposited By: | Bostrom, Nick |
| Deposited On: | 23 Febuary 2004 |
| Additional Information: | This is a preprint of “Self-Locating Belief in Big Worlds: Cosmology’s Missing Link to Observation.” Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 99, No. 12. (2002) |