Abstract
Several physicists, among them Hawking, Page, Coule, and Carroll, have argued against the probabilistic intuitions underlying fine-tuning arguments in cosmology and instead propose that the canonical measure on the phase space of Friedman-Robertson-Walker space-times should be used to evaluate fine-tuning. They claim that flat space-times in this set are actually typical on this natural measure and that therefore the flatness problem is illusory. I argue that they misinterpret typicality in this phase space and, moreover, that no conclusion can be drawn at all about the flatness problem by using the canonical measure alone.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1239-1252 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Philosophy of Science |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Dec |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- History
- Philosophy
- History and Philosophy of Science