num_pages: 194
description: How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? The model of "inference to the best explanation" (IBE) -- that we infer the hypothesis that would, if correct, provide the best explanation of the available evidence--offers a compelling account of inferences both in science and in ordinary life. br br Widely cited by epistemologists and philosophers of science, IBE has nonetheless remained little more than a slogan. Now this influential work has been thoroughly revised and updated, and features a new introduction and two new chapters. i Inference to the Best Explanation /i is an unrivaled exposition of a theory of particular interest in the fields both of epistemology and the philosophy of science.
language: English
title: Inference to Best Explanation
titlecomplete: Inference to Best Explanation
genres: Philosophy, Logic, Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 35
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