The Inference to the Best Explanation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10696367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gilbert H Harman, Gilbert Harman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Publication date | 1965-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2183532 |
| OpenAlex | W2016030371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 264 |
Epistemology · Inference · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
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Jurisprudência sobre a extensão do escopo da Lei Maria da Penha a homens heteroafetivos vítimas de violência doméstica e familiar
Scientific Inferences in the Laboratory and the Law
Inferencia abductiva y generación de hipótesis
Pascal's Wager as an Argument for Not Believing in God
Occam's rattle
Abduction in the Everyday Practice of Science
Cliometric Metatheory
An Introduction to Design Arguments
History and GIS
Socratic Epistemology
On Evidence in Philosophy
Truly understood
The Realm of Reason
The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
Pragmatism
Metatheories, Theories, and Concepts in the Study of Development
Key Arguments for Scientific Realism
Can Modal Skepticism Defeat Humean Skepticism?
Imagination, Possibility, and Plovers
Key Arguments Against Scientific Realism
Relative Realism
Causal Inquiry in International Relations
The Nature of Christian Doctrine
Ockham's Razors
Inference to the Best Explanation
Laws and Symmetry
Knowledge and its Limits
Tracking Truth
The rationality of informal argumentation
Explanatory coherence
Ecological laws of perceiving and acting
Explanation in artificial intelligence
Can network analysis transform psychopathology?
Mental Disorders as Causal Systems
Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience
Reasoning in Organization Science
Aristotle’s Foundationalism
Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
Reasonable Disagreement
Second philosophy
Moral Explanation and the Special Sciences
Transdisciplinarity as an Inference Technique to Achieve a Better Understanding in the Health and Environmental Sciences
Cliometric Metatheory
Doxastic Justification and Testimonial Beliefs
Explanation and Understanding
Inferencia abductiva basada en modelos. Una relación entre lógica y cognición
Harman on Relativism and Moral Diversity
Intercultural Dialogues in Third Spaces
Teaching abductive reasoning for use as a problem-solving tool in organic chemistry and beyond
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The Impact of Meta-Induction
Modeling as Scientific Reasoning—The Role of Abductive Reasoning for Modeling Competence
The relation of Peirce’s abduction to inference to the best explanation
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Theory Construction Methodology
Phenomenology, abduction, and argument
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‘Suspension of Disbelief’
Abduction as a Mode of Inference in Science Education
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Comparing Crosscutting Practices in STEM Disciplines
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories
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In Defense of Deliberative Indispensability
The probable and the nonarbitrary
Meta-inductive Justification of Inductive Generalizations
The independence solution to grue
There is no such thing as a statistical explanation
The bayesian and the abductivist
A false dichotomy in denying explanatoriness any role in confirmation
Putting explanation back into “inference to the best explanation”
Miraculosity claims as inferences to the best explanation
The impact of explanations as communicative acts on belief in a claim
Instantaneous systems of communicative conventions through virtual bargaining
Towards a Synthesis of Two Research Programmes
Psychology and AI at a Crossroads
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An Exploration of Ethical Decision Making with Intelligence Augmentation
Descartes’s theory of free will and inference to the best explanation
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The Nature of Morals
Paley's design argument as an inference to the best explanation, or, Dawkins' dilemma
The functions of fossils
| Unique citing works | 264 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,98 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2026 (54) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 247 |