Inference to the Best Explanation (Philosophical Issues in Science) - Hardcover

Lipton, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415058864 ISBN 13: 9780415058865

Verlag: Routledge, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to this work, we infer the hypothesis that would, if correct, provide the best explanation of the available evidence. Articulating the model of inference to the best explanation requires an account of what makes one explanation better than another. The author of this treatise distinguishes between the explanation best supported by the evidence - the most likely explanation - and the explanation that would, if true, provide the most understanding. He argues that an illuminating version of inference to the best explanation must rely on the latter notion, and provides an account of what makes one explanation better than another by analyzing the structure of contrastive explanations.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415058864
• ISBN 13: 9780415058865
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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