Related links: Gott's Grim Reckoning and the Anthropic Cosmological Principle

A Critique of Two Versions of the Doomsday Argument - Gott’s Line and Leslie’s Wedge (pdf, 428K)

short paper by Elliott Sober, a philosophy professor at University of Wisconsin that critiques Gott's arguments and also related work by Leslie
[Google HTML version]

 

The Post Office and the Age of the Universe

a short comment on Gott's theories that appeard as Teich's Tech Tidbit of the Week  August 9, 1999
Al Teich's Technology and the Future site seems an excellent resource for the wider issues of futurology and the reshaping of society

 

Predicting future duration from present age: A critical assessment (pdf, 187K, also available in .ps.gz and .tex formats)

C. M. Caves,  Contemporary Physics  41, pp. 143-153 (2000) -  another critique of Gott, Leslie and similar works
Caves heads a group on the physics of information looking at quantum information theory and quantum chaotic dynamics

 

Nick Bostrom

has written extensively on doomsday issues and he is foundeder of the online Journal of Evolution and Technology
his anthropic-principle.com web site includes sample chapters of his book book "Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy"
anthropic-principle.com also includes an annotated archive of on-line preprints and a collection of anthropic resources on the net

 

Interactive duration calculator

calculates how long something will last based on Gott's analysis!

 

SWIF - Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia hosted by Università degli Studi di Bari

This has a number of resources, in Italian, English and bilingual including:
FOLDOP - the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Philosophy - over 2000 entries (English)
Il Labirinto Antropico, di Stefano Bettini - an Italian online publication on the anthropic principle (I think a book or thesis). Unfortunately I don't read Italian, but it has a large online bibliogpahy which looks very useful

Alan Dix
Lancaster University
alan@hiraeth.com
alan@hcibook.com