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  1. Doom and probabilities.John Leslie - 1993 - Mind 102 (407):489-491.
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  • The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction.John Leslie - 1996 - Philosophy 72 (279):158-160.
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  • Time and the anthropic principle.John Leslie - 1992 - Mind 101 (403):521-540.
    Carter’s anthropic principle reminds us that intelligent life can find itself only in life-permitting times, places or universes. The principle concerns a possible observational selection effect, not a designing deity. It has no special concern with humans, nor does it say that intelligent life is inevitable and common. Barrow and Tipler, who discuss all this, are not biologically ignorant. As argued in "Universes" (Leslie, 1989) they may well be right in thinking that "fine tuning" of force strengths and particle masses, (...)
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  • Probability theory and the doomsday argument.William Eckhardt - 1993 - Mind 102 (407):483-488.
    John Leslie has published an argument that our own birth rank among all who have lived can be used to make inferences about all who will ever live, and hence about the expected survival time for the human race. It is found to be shorter than usually supposed. The assumptions underpinning the argument are criticized, especially the unwarranted one that the argument's sampling is equiprobable from among all who ever live. A mathematical derivation shows that Leslie's argument is correct only (...)
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  • The End of the World.John Leslie - 2000 - Mind 109 (433):155-158.
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