{"title":"Study Questions for Part VI","authors":"Matthew Kotzen","doi":"10.4324/9781315713151-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315713151-25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352049,"journal":{"name":"Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116041669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study Questions for Part IV","authors":"Matthew Kotzen","doi":"10.4324/9781315713151-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315713151-21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352049,"journal":{"name":"Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science","volume":"98 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114123711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study Questions for Part III","authors":"Matthew Kotzen","doi":"10.4324/9781315713151-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315713151-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352049,"journal":{"name":"Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126259448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad","authors":"S. Carroll","doi":"10.4324/9781315713151-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315713151-3","url":null,"abstract":"Some modern cosmological models predict the appearance of Boltzmann Brains: \u0000observers who randomly fluctuate out of a thermal bath rather than naturally \u0000evolving from a low-entropy Big Bang. A theory in which most observers are of \u0000the Boltzmann Brain type is generally thought to be unacceptable, although \u0000opinions differ. I argue that such theories are indeed unacceptable: the real \u0000problem is with fluctuations into observers who are locally identical to \u0000ordinary observers, and their existence cannot be swept under the rug by a \u0000choice of probability distributions over observers. The issue is not that the \u0000existence of such observers is ruled out by data, but that the theories that \u0000predict them are cognitively unstable: they cannot simultaneously be true and \u0000justifiably believed.","PeriodicalId":352049,"journal":{"name":"Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131548043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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