Citation

Richmond AM. Ratio 2008; 21(2): 201-217.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-9329.2008.00395.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper attempts three tasks in relation to Carter and Leslie's Doomsday Argument. First, it criticises Timothy Chambers' ‘Ussherian Corollary’, a striking but unsuccessful objection to standard Doomsday arguments. Second, it reformulates the Ussherian Corollary as an objection to Bradley Monton's variant Doomsday and Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument. Finally, it tries to diagnose the epistemic/metaphysical problems facing Doomsday-related arguments.1