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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| Keywords: | anthropic principle, self-locating, baysianism, priors, cosmology, measure problem | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology |
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| 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 |
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| Date: | 7 February 2016 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11864 |
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