The Role of the Protocol in Anthropic Reasoning

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 2:195-206 (2015)
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I show how thinking in terms of the protocol used can help clarify problems related to anthropic reasoning and self-location, such as the Doomsday Argument and the Sleeping Beauty Problem.

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10.3998/ergo.12405314.0002.009

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Joseph Y. Halpern
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Formal Representations of Belief.Franz Huber - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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