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Design and the Anthropic Principle

Biology and Philosophy, 1992
In the Booknotes to this journal's Volume 5 (1990), at page 259, M. Ruse says of the Design Argument that, after Darwin, it was "stone dead - attempts to resuscitate it by biology-ignorant physicists under the guise of the anthropic principle notwithstanding (Barrow and Tipler 1986)". This strikes me as unfair to Barrow and Tipler, and to the Anthropic
John F Leslie
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Cosmology, Life, and the Anthropic Principle

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001
Abstract: We discuss some ways in which the age, size, and structure of the Universe, together with the values of its defining constants, satisfy the necessary conditions for life. The implications for teleology and the existence of other universes are also discussed.
John D Barrow
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Superposition and Anthropic Principle

Physics Essays, 2016
Thomas G Schumann
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Axions and the anthropic principle

Physical Review D, 1988
We consider the possibility that the axion density in the Universe today may be constrained by the anthropic requirement that life should have evolved. If this were the case, the force of the usual cosmological bound on the axion decay constant would be greatly lessened.
, Dowrick, , McDougall
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The Non-Trivial Character of the Weak Anthropic Principle [PDF]

open access: yesTheoria Et Historia Scientiarum, 2007
In contemporary debates on the status of the Anthropic Principle, the Weak Anthropic Principle (WAP) appears noncontroversial from the standpoint of the natural sciences.
Życiński, Joseph
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Philosophical Roots of the Anthropic Principle [PDF]

open access: yesTheoria Et Historia Scientiarum, 2007
The relevance of this topic to the present meeting is partly due to the fact that almost two decades have elapsed since an astrophysicist, Brandon Carter, had first introduced the Anthropic Cosmological Principle. This has taken place here, in Cracow, at
Balashov, Yuri V.
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