Best explanations : new essays on inference to the best explanation / edited by Kevin McCain and Ted Poston

Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date: ©2017
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators: McCain, Kevin, 1980- and Poston, Ted

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Best Explanations: An Introduction / Ted Poston -- pt. I Inference to the Best Explanation -- 2.Inference to the Best Explanation: What Is It? And Why Should We Care? / Igor Douven -- 3.Peirce and Ramsey: Truth, Pragmatism, and Inference to the Best Explanation / Cheryl Misak -- 4.Inference to the Best Explanation, Cleaned Up and Made Respectable / Jonah N. Schupbach -- pt. II The Fundamentality of Inference to the Best Explanation -- 5.Reasoning to the Best Explanation / Richard Fumerton -- 6.Inference to the Best Explanation: Fundamentalism's Failures / Mark Risjord -- 7.Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Knowledge / Alexander Bird -- 8.The Evidential Impact of Explanatory Considerations / Ted Poston -- pt. III Justifying Inference to the Best Explanation -- 9.Inference to the Best Explanation and Epistemic Circularity / Duncan Pritchard -- 10.In Defense of Rationalism about Abductive Inference / Ali Hasan -- pt. IV Inference to the Best Explanation and Skepticism -- 11.Does Skepticism Presuppose Explanationism? / James R. Beebe -- 12.Scepticism about Inference to the Best Explanation / Ruth Weintraub -- 13.External World Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation / Susanna Rinard -- pt. V Applications of Inference to the Best Explanation -- 14.Explanation, Confirmation, and Hempel's Paradox / William Roche -- 15.The Spirit of Cromwell's Rule / Timothy McGrew -- 16.Bayesianism and IBE: The Case of Individual vs. Group Selection / Leah Henderson -- 17.Inference to the Best Explanation and the Receipt of Testimony: Testimonial Reductionism Vindicated / Elizabeth Fricker.

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0198746903
9780198746904

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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