How and how not to make predictions with temporal Copernicanism

DOI10.1007/S11229-007-9259-5MaRDI QIDQ1024141zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kevin Nelson

Publication date 16 June 2009

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9259-5

zbMATH Keywords

anthropic principleDoomsday Argumenttemporal Copernicanism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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