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Inference to the Best Explanation

Peter Lipton
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Background Belief
Bayes's Theorem
Bayesian abduction
Bayesian reasoning
Bayesianism
Bayes’s Theorem
Black Ravens
Cadaveric Infection
casual model
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causal inference
Childbed Fever
Constructive Empiricism
Contrastive Explanation
contrastive inference
Deductive Nomological Model
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explanationism
Explanatory Considerations
Explanatory Loveliness
Explanatory Virtues
hypothesis evaluation
Hypothetico Deductive Model
Hypotheticodeductive Model
Inductive Justification
Inductive Practices
Inductive Support
Inferential Practices
Inferential Virtues
Loveliest Explanation
loveliness
Miracle Argument
Non-black Non-ravens
philosophy of science
Raven Paradox
scientific explanation models
scientific inference
scientific methodology
scientific reasoning
Self-evidencing Explanations
Van Fraassen
Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricism

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415242035
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Mar 2004
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking about what would actually explain that evidence, and we take the ability of a hypothesis to explain the evidence as a sign that the hypothesis is correct. In Inference to the Best Explanation, Peter Lipton gives this important and influential idea the development and assessment it deserves.

The second edition has been substantially enlarged and reworked, with a new chapter on the relationship between explanation and Bayesianism, and an extension and defence of the account of contrastive explanation. It also includes an expanded defence of the claims that our inferences really are guided by diverse explanatory considerations, and that this pattern of inference can take us towards the truth. This edition of Inference to the Best Explanation has also been updated throughout and includes a new bibliography.
About Peter Lipton
Peter Lipton is Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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