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Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2002) is a book by philosopher Nick Bostrom. Bostrom investigates how to reason when one suspects that evidence is biased by "observation selection effects", in other words, when the evidence presented has been pre-filtered by the condition that there was some ...
- Nick Bostrom
- 2002
You can now view the entire text of Anthropic Bias: Observation selection effects in science and philosophy in HTML format, or download the text as a PDF. These are full digital reprints of the original book, offered here by the author with kind permission from Routledge.
The anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the hypothesis that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations could happen only in a universe capable of developing intelligent life.
Anthropic Bias, a book that since its first publication in 2002 has achieved the status of a classic, 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 precondition causes observation selection effects - biases in our data that may call into question how we interpret evidence that the Universe is fine-tuned at all. Read the full text of Anthropic Bias.
26 de ago. de 2011 · This article offers brief guidance on overviews and anthologies, anthropic design arguments, testing anthropic arguments, and the notorious anthropic-related doomsday and simulation arguments. The primary focus is on philosophical anthropic works.
9 de feb. de 2003 · Anthropic Bias is a synthesis of some of the most interesting and important ideas to emerge from discussion of cosmic fine-tuning, the anthropic principle, and the Doomsday Argument.
