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Bias Against Boltzmann Brains?

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Noûs

DOI: 10.1111/nous.70077

Authors: Sinan Dogramaci, Simon Goldstein, John Hawthorne, Miriam Schoenfield

Institutions: The University of Texas at Austin, University of Hong Kong, University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,900

Funder: Ohio State University