title: A Third Route to the Doomsday Argument
creator: Franceschi, Paul
subject: Philosophy of Science
description: In this paper, I present a solution to the Doomsday argument (DA) based on a third type of solution, by contrast to on the one hand, the Carter-Leslie view and on the other hand, the Eckhardt-Sowers-Sober analysis. I argue that both aforementioned analyses are based on an inaccurate analogy. After discussing the imperfections of both models, I present then a novel model that fits more adequately with the human situation corresponding to DA. This last model also encapsulates both Carter-Leslie's and Eckhardt et al.'s models, and reveals a link with the issue of mind-body dualism. Lastly I argue that this novel analogy, combined with an adequate solution to the reference class problem, leads to a novel formulation of the argument that could well be more consensual than the original one. 
date: 2002-12
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/2629/1/doomsday-en.pdf
identifier:   Franceschi, Paul  (2002) A Third Route to the Doomsday Argument.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/2629/