About the author

Professor, Faculty of Philosophy
Director, Future of Humanity Institute &
Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology
University of Oxford

Professor Bostrom has previously held positions at Yale University and as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow. His doctoral dissertation, which was selected for inclusion in the Outstanding Dissertations series by the late Prof. Robert Nozick, developed the first mathematically explicit theory of observation selection effects. He has published more than 200 articles in both philosophy and physics journals, and has co-edited volumes on Human Enhancement (Oxford: OUP, 2009) and on Global Catastrophic Risks (Oxford: OUP, 2008). In 2009 Nick Bostrom was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in Foreign Policy Magazine and also won the inaugural 2009 Eugene R. Gannon Jr. Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement.

Elsewhere online

There are a number of online resources that contain information about the Anthropic Principle and related discussions.

Nick Bostom's homepage contains Nick's related papers, as well as papers on a variety of other topics.

simulation-argument.com contains resources specifically related to the argument that the Universe is, in fact, merely a simulation being carried out in the 'real' Universe.

The Future of Humanity Institute, directed by Nick Bostrum, is a cross-disciplinary research centre of the University of Oxford that unites philosophy, science, and mathematics to tackle the large questions of where humanity is headed.

Philpapers is an open pre-print archive for all things philosophical, including papers related to the Anthropic Principle.

Similarly, the Cornell University's arXiv is a preprint resource for papers in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics, and contains some scientific papers about the Principle.

If you have access through your University or Library's subscription, you may also want to explore The Philosopher's Index and the Web of Sciences.

Finally, anthropic-principle.com used to hold a preprint archive for papers related to Anthropic Bias. Although the archive is no longer maintained, you can see the final collection here.

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