Inference to the Best Explanation (International Library of Philosophy) - Hardcover

Lipton, Peter

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9780415242028: Inference to the Best Explanation (International Library of Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 0415242029 ISBN 13: 9780415242028
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Peter Lipton is Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415242029
ISBN 13 
9780415242028
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
232
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