Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy

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Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy is a philosophical and scientific monograph by Nick Bostrom that systematically analyzes how observer-related selection effects influence reasoning about probability, evidence, and the structure of the universe.

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instanceOf book
philosophical monograph
scientific monograph
aim to systematize reasoning under observation selection effects
author Nick Bostrom
authorSameAs Nick Bostrom
countryOfPublication United Kingdom
field cosmology
decision theory
epistemology
philosophy
probability theory
genre analytic philosophy
philosophy of science
probability theory
hasPart analysis of anthropic principles
discussion of reference class choice
discussion of the Doomsday argument
formalization of observation selection effects
treatment of the Sleeping Beauty problem
influenced debates on anthropic reasoning in cosmology
discussions of existential risk and population ethics
philosophical work on self-locating beliefs
influencedBy Bayesian epistemology
anthropic principle
language English
mainSubject Bayesian reasoning
Doomsday argument
Sleeping Beauty problem
anthropic reasoning
cosmology
fine-tuning of the universe
observation selection effects
observer-relative evidence
philosophy of physics
philosophy of probability
probability theory
reference class problem
self-indication assumption
self-locating belief
self-sampling assumption
publicationYear 2002
publisher Routledge
title Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
topic evidence under observational bias
observer-relative probabilities
selection effects in scientific reasoning
structure of the universe

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Observational selection effects and probability relatedWork Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
Niklas Boström notableWork Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy title Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy