George Kampis (1995) The Anthropic Principle of What?
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Psycoloquy 6(38): The Anthropic Principle of What?
THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE OF WHAT?
Commentary on Lefebvre on Human-Choice
George Kampis
Department of Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University H-1088
Budapest, Hungary
gk@hps.elte.hu
Abstract
A reconstruction of the logic of Lefebvre's paper (1995)
reveals several non sequiturs. In particular, and most important:
(a) the problem of free will is argued to enter in an arbitrary
form, and (b) the anthropic principle should (and could) not be
combined with any non-necessary statement of the kind discussed in
the target paper.
Keywords
choice; computation; decision theory; ethical cognition;
mathematical psychology; model building; parameter estimation;
probability; rationality.
References
- Lefebvre, V.A. (1995). The Anthropic Principle in Psychology and Human Choice. PSYCOLOQUY 6(29) human-choice.1.lefebvre.