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The fine-tuning argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2001

M. C. BRADLEY
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, South Australia
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Abstract

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A frequent objection to the fine-tuning argument has been that although certain necessary conditions for life were admittedly exceedingly improbable, still, the many possible alternative sets of conditions were all equally improbable, so that no special significance is to be attached to the realization of the conditions of life. Some authors, however, have rejected this objection as fallacious. The object of this paper is to state the objection to the fine-tuning argument in a more telling form than has been done hitherto, and to meet the charge of fallacy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press