McCoy, C.D. (2018) The Universe Never Had a Chance. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Demarest asserts that we have good evidence for the existence and nature of an initial chance event for the universe. I claim that we have no such evidence and no knowledge of its supposed nature. Against relevant comparison classes her initial chance account is no better, and in some ways worse, than its alternatives.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID McCoy, C.D. casey.mccoy@ed.ac.uk 0000-0002-7921-4911
Keywords:	chance, cosmology, determinism
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Depositing User:	Dr. Casey McCoy
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2018 21:11
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2018 21:11
Item ID:	14416
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Date:	1 March 2018
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14416

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