Anthropic Bias

Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
AuthorNick Bostrom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAnthropic principle
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date
2002
Media typePrint
Pages240
ISBN978-0415883948
Followed byHuman Enhancement 

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 appropriately positioned observer to "receive" the evidence. This conundrum is sometimes called the "anthropic principle", "self-locating belief", or "indexical information".[1][2]

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