The mysteries of self-locating belief and anthropic reasoning
The Harvard review of philosophy, vol. 11, 2003, pp. 59–73
Abstract
This article discusses anthropic reasoning, which aims to detect, diagnose, and cure the biases of observation selection effects. It notes the subtlety of this concept and seeks to resolve the problems in reasoning by addressing the inherent observation selection effect. The theory presented in this article enables a coherent rejection of arguments that might seem counterintuitive. It finds an easy application in answering why cars in other lanes seem to be moving faster. – AI-generated abstract.
