Multiverse theories: a philosophical perspective
If the laws of nature are fine-tuned for life, can we infer other universes with different laws? How could we even test such a theory without empirical access to those distant places? Can we believe in the multiverse of the Everett interpretation of quantum theory or in the reality of other possible...
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| Summary: | If the laws of nature are fine-tuned for life, can we infer other universes with different laws? How could we even test such a theory without empirical access to those distant places? Can we believe in the multiverse of the Everett interpretation of quantum theory or in the reality of other possible worlds, as advocated by philosopher David Lewis? At the intersection of physics and philosophy of science, this book outlines the philosophical challenge to theoretical physics in a measured, well-grounded manner. The origin of multiverse theories are explored within the context of the fine-tuning problem and a systematic comparison between the various different multiverse models are included. Cosmologists, high energy physicists, and philosophers including graduate students and researchers will find a systematic exploration of such questions in this important book |
| Item Description: | Preface; Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Introduction; 2. The fine-tuning considerations; 3. Fine-tuning for life and design; Part II. Fine-tuning for Life and the Multiverse: 4. The standard fine-tuning argument; 5. Problems with priors; 6. A new fine-tuning argument; Part III. Testing Multiverse Theories: 7. Testing multiverse theories: approach; 8. Approaching practice; 9. Puzzles of self-locating belief; Part IV. Wider Still and Wilder: 10. Other multiverses; 11. Outlook; References; Subject index; Author index |
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| adam_text | Contents Preface Part I page xi Setting the Stage 1 1 Introduction 1.1 Multiverse Theories and Why to Consider Them 1.2 Types of Multiverse Theories 1.3 Overview of This Book 1.4 Ata Glance: Some Theses Defended in This Book 3 3 4 13 18 2 The Fine-Tuning Considerations 2.1 Fine-Tuning for Life: The Evidence 2.2 Is Fine-Tuning for Life Improbable? 20 21 27 3 Fine-Tuning for Life and Design 3.1 The Inference from Fine-Tuning for Life to Design as a Version of the Teleological Argument 3.2 The Fine-Tuning Argument for Design Using Probabilities 3.3 The Anthropic Objection 3.4 Which Design Hypothesis Exactly? 3.5 An Alternative Fine-Tuning Argument for Design 37 37 38 40 44 48 Part II Fine-Tuning for Life and the Multiverse 51 The Standard Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse 4.1 The Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy Charge 4.2 Urn Analogies 4.3 Broadening the Debate 4.4 The Fine-Tuned Planet 53 53 55 57 59 4 vii
Contents viii 5 6 4.5 The Fine-Tuned Ancestors 4.6 The Lucky Civilization 4.7 A Glance at the Fermi Paradox 4.8 Back to the Multiverse 62 64 68 69 Problems with Priors 5.1 Bayesian Formulation 5.2 Motivating an Ur-Prior for the Multiverse? 5.3 The Double-Counting Charge Stated 5.4 The Standard Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse without Double-Counting 5.5 Rebutting the Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy Charge - What It Would Take 72 72 74 75 78 80 A New Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse 6.1 The Argument from Fine-Tuning for the Multiverse as an Inference to an Anthropic Explanation? 6.2 Anthropic Reasoning: Dicke/Carter-Style 6.3 The New Fine-Tuning Argument Stated 85 87 89 Part III 95 Testing Multiverse Theories 85 7 Testing Multiverse Theories: Theoretical Approach 7.1 The Challenge of Testing Multiverse Theories 7.2 Toward a Formalization of Anthropic Reasoning 7.3 The Background Information Constraint 7.4 The Reference Class Problem (Formally) Resolved 97 97 98 109 111 8 Testing Multiverse Theories: Approaching Practice 8.1 Implementing the Background Information Constraint 8.2 Observer Proxies 8.3 Cosmology’s Measure Problem 8.4 Researcher Degrees of Freedom 8.5 Why Testing Multiverse Theories Is So Damn Difficult 8.6 A Way Out à la “Open Science”? 114 114 116 119 125 128 129 9 Puzzles of Self-Locating Belief 9.1 Troubles for Self-Locating Indifference? 9.2 Reacting to the Puzzles 9.3 Lessons for the Sleeping Beauty Problem 132 132 136 145
Contents Partly Wider Still and Wilder ix 153 10 Other Multiverses 10.1 The Everettian Quantum Multiverse 10.2 Modal Realism 10.3 A Multiverse of Mathematical Structures? 155 155 168 173 11 Outlook 11.1 Is the Multiverse Even Science? 11.2 Whither Physics? 178 178 180 References Author Index Subject Index 185 197 199
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Contents Preface Part I page xi Setting the Stage 1 1 Introduction 1.1 Multiverse Theories and Why to Consider Them 1.2 Types of Multiverse Theories 1.3 Overview of This Book 1.4 Ata Glance: Some Theses Defended in This Book 3 3 4 13 18 2 The Fine-Tuning Considerations 2.1 Fine-Tuning for Life: The Evidence 2.2 Is Fine-Tuning for Life Improbable? 20 21 27 3 Fine-Tuning for Life and Design 3.1 The Inference from Fine-Tuning for Life to Design as a Version of the Teleological Argument 3.2 The Fine-Tuning Argument for Design Using Probabilities 3.3 The Anthropic Objection 3.4 Which Design Hypothesis Exactly? 3.5 An Alternative Fine-Tuning Argument for Design 37 37 38 40 44 48 Part II Fine-Tuning for Life and the Multiverse 51 The Standard Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse 4.1 The Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy Charge 4.2 Urn Analogies 4.3 Broadening the Debate 4.4 The Fine-Tuned Planet 53 53 55 57 59 4 vii
Contents viii 5 6 4.5 The Fine-Tuned Ancestors 4.6 The Lucky Civilization 4.7 A Glance at the Fermi Paradox 4.8 Back to the Multiverse 62 64 68 69 Problems with Priors 5.1 Bayesian Formulation 5.2 Motivating an Ur-Prior for the Multiverse? 5.3 The Double-Counting Charge Stated 5.4 The Standard Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse without Double-Counting 5.5 Rebutting the Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy Charge - What It Would Take 72 72 74 75 78 80 A New Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse 6.1 The Argument from Fine-Tuning for the Multiverse as an Inference to an Anthropic Explanation? 6.2 Anthropic Reasoning: Dicke/Carter-Style 6.3 The New Fine-Tuning Argument Stated 85 87 89 Part III 95 Testing Multiverse Theories 85 7 Testing Multiverse Theories: Theoretical Approach 7.1 The Challenge of Testing Multiverse Theories 7.2 Toward a Formalization of Anthropic Reasoning 7.3 The Background Information Constraint 7.4 The Reference Class Problem (Formally) Resolved 97 97 98 109 111 8 Testing Multiverse Theories: Approaching Practice 8.1 Implementing the Background Information Constraint 8.2 Observer Proxies 8.3 Cosmology’s Measure Problem 8.4 Researcher Degrees of Freedom 8.5 Why Testing Multiverse Theories Is So Damn Difficult 8.6 A Way Out à la “Open Science”? 114 114 116 119 125 128 129 9 Puzzles of Self-Locating Belief 9.1 Troubles for Self-Locating Indifference? 9.2 Reacting to the Puzzles 9.3 Lessons for the Sleeping Beauty Problem 132 132 136 145
Contents Partly Wider Still and Wilder ix 153 10 Other Multiverses 10.1 The Everettian Quantum Multiverse 10.2 Modal Realism 10.3 A Multiverse of Mathematical Structures? 155 155 168 173 11 Outlook 11.1 Is the Multiverse Even Science? 11.2 Whither Physics? 178 178 180 References Author Index Subject Index 185 197 199 |
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