rcw86-xray-ixpe-optical-f2bd3a Type post Author Bruce Gordon Date March 27, 2026 CategoriesFine-tuningPhilosophyPhysics Tagged , Alex O’Connor, background knowledge, Bayesian formalism, Bayesian reasoning, belief, Big Bang, calculus, conditionalization, cosmology, deductive logic, Dutch book arguments, fine-tuning, Fisherian hypothesis testing, inference to the best explanation, John Maynard Keynes, logic, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, null distributions, philosophy, precession, probability, propositions, psychological states, rejection regions, Sean Carroll, Socrates, subjective interpretation, syllogism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series) The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence Bruce Gordon March 27, 2026 Fine-tuning, Philosophy, Physics 11 Science and philosophy aim to explain aspects of the world and of our experience, and both offer judgments about what is correct or incorrect. Read More ›
NorthpoleofMercury--NASA Type post Author Bruce Gordon Date March 17, 2026 CategoriesCosmologyFaith & SciencePhilosophy Tagged , Alex O’Connor, assumptions, background information, Bayes factor, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian confirmation theory, Bayesian reasoning, Clark Glymour, confidence, denominators, Dutch book argument, epistemic probabilities, evidence, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, general relativity, General Theory of Relativity, hypothesis, likelihood, likelihood ratio, marginal probability, mental state, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, normalization factor, panpsychism, pantheism, posterior probability, prior probability, probabilities, psychological states, Sean Carroll, subjectivism, subjectivist Bayesianism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, universe Bayesian Methodology and the Fine-Tuning Argument Bruce Gordon March 17, 2026 Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy 17 To use Clark Glymour’s example, Einstein's general theory of relativity explained the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion. Read More ›
hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b Type post Author Bruce Gordon Date February 18, 2026 CategoriesCosmologyIntelligent DesignPhysics Tagged , Alex O’Connor, Bayesian reasoning, cosmology, fine-tuning, Hans Halvorson, Humean probabilities, likelihood ratio, Luke Barnes, mathematicians, metaphysics, monotheistic tradition, multiverse, Ned Hall, Nevin Climenhaga, personal beliefs, philosophers, philosophy, plausibility, podcasters, Presbyterians, priors, probability, psychological states, Robin Collins, Sean Carroll, spacetime, subjective inclinations, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, theoretical physicists, Thomas Bayes Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers” Bruce Gordon February 18, 2026 Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics 11 Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument. Read More ›
