PROBABILITY, FINE - TUNING AND THE MIND'S ROAD TO PROVIDENCE.
This essay relates probability, fine-tuning, Providence, and the contingency of beings. It considers how perceptions of fine-tuning in the laws of physics are deployed using probabilities in multiverse and fine-tuning arguments regarding the coming into being of the universe. These arguments lack th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol. 27; no. 1/2; pp. 155 - 185 |
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2015
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