Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to the audiences at the Super-PAC workshop on the philosophy of astrophysics and cosmology, which was held at the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh) in 2017, as well as to the Institute for Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ian Ramsey Centre (Oxford) and the Future of Humanity Institute (Oxford). Special acknowledgments to Allan Franklin and Dejan Urošević for their feedback on the final draft, John Norton and Helge Kragh for their valuable early suggestions, Vesna Milošević-Zdjelar, Branislav Nikolić, Anders Sandberg, Aleksandar Obradović, and Dušan Pavlović for their assistance in obtaining references, as well as late Petar Grujić, late Jelena Milogradov-Turin, Miroljub Dugić, Srđan Samurović, Richard Dawid, Sir Martin Rees, Milan Stojanović, Marko Stalevski, late Amos Zahiland and numerous other teachers and colleagues for engaging discussions. We extend our thanks to the CUP editors for their patience and diligence, and Elizabeth Thompson and Nada Dumić for their editorial support. This research was supported by the Templeton Foundation and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. Special appreciation to Milica Ćirković, Ljiljana Radenović, Klara Perović – and finally, Mowgli the cat and Kruško the dog.