Bias Against Boltzmann Brains?
ABSTRACT A popular indifference principle for self‐locating probability faces skeptical challenges, most notably a skeptical challenge concerning Boltzmann Brains. We examine the prospects for various views that prescribe some degree of bias in place of indifference. Although a bias view has attractive anti‐skeptical features, it turns out that bias leads to puzzles about deference to chance, reflection, and other related principles.
Authors
- Miriam Schoenfield
- John T. Hawthorne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6340-0242)
- Sinan Dogramaci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6078-2253)
- Simon Goldstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4089-8575)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Noûs
- Published
- 2026-11-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.70077
- Primary Topic
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00