Justifying inference to the best explanation as a practical meta-syllogism on dialectical structures
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Justifying inference to the best explanation as a practical meta-syllogism on dialectical structures
This article discusses how inference to the best explanation (IBE) can be justified as a practical meta-argument. It is, firstly, justified as a practical argument insofar as accepting the best explanation as true can be shown to further a specific aim. And because this aim is a discursive one which proponents can rationally pursue in—and relative to—a complex controversy, namely maximising the...
متن کاملInference to the Best Explanation
Our initial survey of the problems of induction and explanation is now complete. We have considered some of the forms these problems take, some of the reasons they are so difficult to solve, and some of the weaknesses in various attempts to solve them. In the last chapter, I also attempted something more constructive, by giving what I hope is an improved version of the causal model of explanati...
متن کاملInference to the Best Explanation (article)
Science depends on judgments of the bearing of evidence on theory. Scientists must judge whether an observation or the result of an experiment supports, disconfirms, or is simply irrelevant to a given hypothesis. Similarly, scientists may judge that, given all the available evidence, a hypothesis ought to be accepted as correct or nearly so, rejected as false, or neither. Occasionally, these ev...
متن کاملInference to the Best Explanation is Coherent
In his van Fraassen argues that Inference to the Best Explanation is incoherent in the sense that adopting it as a rule for belief change will make one susceptible to a dynamic Dutch book The present paper argues against this An epistemic strategy is described that allows us to infer to the best explanation free of charge Advocates of the inference rule commonly referred to as Inference to the ...
متن کاملOn the Possibility of Inference to the Best Explanation
Various proposals have suggested that an adequate explanatory theory should reduce the number or the cardinality of the set of logically independent claims that need be accepted in order to entail a body of data. A (and perhaps the only) well-formed proposal of this kind is William Kneale’s: an explanatory theory should be finitely axiomatizable but it’s set of logical consequences in the data ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0210-z