Abstract
Abstract
Recently, different versions of a cosmological “anthropic principle” (AP) have been used to try to explain various features of the universe. This essay, which focuses on some early uses of AP, argues that even modest appeals to it cannot be regarded as genuinely explanatory.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Multidisciplinary
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