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Best Explanations - New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation (Hardcover)
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Best Explanations - New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation (Hardcover)
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Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous
inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the
sciences, this kind of reasoning is common in everyday life.
Despite its widespread use, inference to the best explanation is
still in need of precise formulation, and it remains controversial.
On the one hand, supporters of explanationism take inference to the
best explanation to be a justifying form of inference; some even
take all justification to be a matter of explanatory reasoning. On
the other hand, critics object that inference to the best
explanation is not a fundamental form of inference, and some argue
that we should be skeptical of inference to the best explanation in
general. This volume brings together twenty philosophers to explore
various aspects of inference to the best explanation and the
debates surrounding it. These specially commissioned essays
constitute the cutting edge of research on the role explanatory
considerations play in epistemology and philosophy of science.
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