![]() Nevertheless, it is not easy to define the status of the anthropic principle. This explains the interest this principle has raised. Apparently it enables us to introduce the human being, under the label of «the observer», in the otherwise impersonal scientific world, and to find a meaning to the world. The anthropic principle can be considered as a bridge between science, philosophy and theology. ourselves, which would remain forever alienated from the rational level of objective scientific discussion. One of the main characteristics of our age is the dichotomy between the objective world of empirical science, possessing an intersubjective character, and the subjective world of the knowing being, i.e. Not surprisingly, the result has been some pretty wild confusion concerning what the whole thing is about". Dicke *(2) (3) "A total of over thirty anthropic principles have been formulated and many of them have been defined several times over - in nonequivalent ways - by different authors, and sometimes even by the same authors on different occasions. Science, philosophy, or gueswork? Bibliography Notes "Basic science, at its most innovative, merges into philosophy".Įrnan McMullin *(1) (2) "It is well known that carbon is required to make physicists". Fine-tuning, teleology, and other worlds 6.1. ![]() Tipler on the Anthropic Principle (1986) 6. A Meeting of the Royal Society (1983) 5.3. Life Depends on Delicate Coincidences: Carr & Rees (1979) 5.2. The anthropic principle comes of age 5.1. The Birth of the Anthropic Principle: Brandon Carter (1973) 5. The principle is almost there: Collins and Hawking (1973) 4.4. More Anthropic Reasoning: Robert Dicke (1961) 4.3. Introducing Anthropic Reasoning: Gerald Whitrow (1955) 4.2. The formulation of the anthropic principle 4.1. Large Number's Coincidences Are Not Accidental: Paul Dirac (1937) 4. ![]() Constants of Nature and Large Numbers: Sir Arthur Eddington (1935f) 3.2. Dimensionless constants and large numbers 3.1. Dimensionless Constants and Other Worlds 3. Einstein's Search for the Ultimate Theory of Physics 2.2. The dimensionless constants of nature 2.1. Constants of nature and natural units 1.1. The anthropic principle: science, philosophy or guesswork?įecha de publicación: Lecture in "The Impact of the Humanities on the Development of European Science", Summer School, 10-15 June 2004, Venice (Italy), Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, and The Galileo Chair of History of Science of the University of Paduaġ.
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