Open AccessThe Doomsday Argument without Knowledge of Birth Rank
Author(s) -
Monton Bradley
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.095
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9213
pISSN - 0031-8094
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9213.00297
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , rank (graph theory) , history , medicine , mathematics , combinatorics
The Carter–Leslie doomsday argument can be given in a situation where you do not know your birth rank, even approximately. This gives support to the refutation of the doomsday argument based on the self–indication assumption ‘Finding that you exist gives you reason to think that there are many observers’.