Description: Anthropic Bias : Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy, Hardcover by Bostrom, Nick, ISBN 0415938589, ISBN-13 9780415938587, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as "the anthropic principle," "self-locating belief," or "indexical information"--turns out to be a surprisingly perplexing and intellectually stimulating challenge, one abounding with important implications for many areas in science and philosophy. There are the philosophical thought experiments and paradoxes: the Doomsday Argument; Sleeping Beauty; the Presumptuous Philosopher; Adam & Eve; the Absent-Minded Driver; the Shooting Room. And there are the applications in contemporary science: cosmology ("How many universes are there?", "Why does the universe appear fine-tuned for life?"); evolutionary theory ("How improbable was the evolution of intelligent life on our planet?"); the problem of time's arrow ("Can it be given a thermodynamic explanation?"); quantum physics ("How can the many-worlds theory be tested?"); game-theory problems with imperfect recall ("How to model them?"); even traffic analysis ("Why is the 'next lane' faster?"). Anthropic Bias argues that the same principles are at work across all these domains. And it offers a synthesis: a mathematically explicit theory of observation selection effects that attempts to meet scientific needs while steering clear of philosophical paradox.
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Book Title: Anthropic Bias : Observation Selection Effects in Science and Phi
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Anthropic Bias : Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Methodology, Référence, General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Nick Bostrom
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 7.2 in
Format: Hardcover
