PHILOS 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: David Hume, Fallacy, Prior Probability
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Par t thinks there can be special kinds of selector facts like goodness or maximality and we should take seriously that this is where explanations come to an end. If laws of physics govern the world, maybe it isn"t that weird that there should be selector facts. There"s just stu distributed over space and time. The laws are just special kinds of regularities in how things are con gured. If you have this view, you won"t like par t"s stu . Par t"s main conclusions: fine tuning is evidence for mwh. Fine-tuning is not evidence for many worlds (white): some cosmic hypotheses are independently plausible and therefore more likely to be true. Objection: we can"t meaningfully assign chances to di erent cosmic possibilities. Objection: awh is not more likely to be true that other more arbitrary cosmic possibilities: a feature of a global hypothesis can explain it by being a selector".
