Multiple Universes and Self-Locating Evidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10696330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yoaav Isaacs (0000-0002-7288-1850, Baylor University), John Hawthorne (0000-0002-6340-0242, University of Southern California and Australian Catholic University), Jack S Russell (0000-0003-3135-8120, University of Southern California), Jeffrey Sanford Russell |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-294 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00318108-9743809 |
| OpenAlex | W4312761792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 48 |
Is the fact that our universe contains fine-tuned life evidence that we live in a multiverse? Ian Hacking and Roger White influentially argue that it is not. We approach this question through a systematic framework for self-locating epistemology. As it turns out, leading approaches to self-locating evidence agree that the fact that our own universe contains fine-tuned life indeed confirms the existence of a multiverse (at least in a suitably idealized setting). This convergence is no accident: we present two theorems showing that, in this setting, any updating rule that satisfies a few reasonable conditions will have the same feature. The conclusion that fine-tuned life provides evidence for a multiverse is hard to escape
Computer security · Convergence (economics) · Economics · Epistemology · Feature (linguistics) · Hacker · Linguistics · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Theoretical physics · Universe · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Harmony in a panpsychist world
The Universe’s Fine-Tuning Does Call for Explanation
A Presumptuous Path to Theism, Modal Realism, or Axiarchism
Doomsday or Multiverse Bias
Sleeping Beauty and the demands of non‐ideal rationality
Planetary fine-tuning, cosmological fine-tuning, and the multiverse
The fine-tuning argument against the multiverse
Self-locating belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem
The Inessential Indexical
On the Probability of Plenitude
Understanding Deutsch's probability in a deterministic multiverse
The Myth of the De Se
The Plurality of Bayesian Measures of Confirmation and the Problem of Measure Sensitivity
The Relevance of Self-Locating Beliefs
Attitudes De Dicto and De Se
Updating as Communication
Self‐Location and Other‐Location
Defeating Dr. Evil with Self‐Locating Belief
Deeply Contingent A Priori Knowledge
Confirmation in a Branching World
The Doomsday Argument and the Number of Possible Observers
Ten Reasons to Care About the Sleeping Beauty Problem
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |