Inference to the best explanation, coherence and other explanatory virtues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10815656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adolfas Mackonis (Vilnius University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 190 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 975-995 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Synthese (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-011-0054-y |
| OpenAlex | W2059372668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 46 |
Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Epistemology · Explanatory model · Explanatory power · Inference · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Statistics · Unification · Virtue · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Some reflections on Mitchell’s pragmatist variant of scientific realism
How to Make AlphaGo’s Children Explainable
An Evolution-Based Model of Causation for Aging-Related Diseases and Intrinsic Mortality
Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests
Questionable Research Practices
Doing things efficiently
Drawing conclusions
Accident Causation Models
‘Truth’, ‘justice’, and the American wave… function
The Wrong Inference to the Best Explanation for Anti-Natalism
In error we trust
Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis
Crossing the Trust Gap in Medical AI
Explanations for adaptations, just‐so stories, and limitations on evidence in evolutionary biology
The case for the Freud–Breuer theory of hysteria
How good is an explanation
Should scientific realists be platonists
Two kinds of explanatory integration in cognitive science
Systematizing the theoretical virtues
A conditional logic for abduction
Intuitions are never used as evidence in ethics
Can there be a Bayesian explanationism? On the prospects of a productive partnership
Abductive two-dimensionalism
Naturalistic metaphysics and the parity thesis
Putting inference to the best explanation into context
Dimensions of predictive success
The Costs of Harking
Clinical Reasoning, Grünbaum, and Freud’s “Cleverest Dreamer” Dream Interpretation
An analysis of knowledge and valuation .
The structure of empirical knowledge
The coherence theory of truth.
Critical Scientific Realism
The Architecture of the Mind
Computational Philosophy of Science
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
Inference to the Best Explanation
Explanatory coherence
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Explanatory coherence in social explanations
Explanation as Unification
Coherence measures and inference to the best explanation
Putting inference to the best explanation in its place
Beauty, A Road To The Truth
On the distinction between Peirce’s abduction and Lipton’s Inference to the best explanation
Underdetermination as an epistemological test tube
Inference to the loveliest explanation
Patterns of abduction
Inference to the best explanation
Coherence, Truth, and the Development of Scientific Knowledge
Defending Abduction
A Bayesian Account of the Virtue of Unification
The Inference to the Best Explanation
The Fine Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation
The Abductivist Reply to Skepticism
Explanatory Unification
Confirmation, Heuristics, and Explanatory Reasoning
Explanationist Aid for the Theory of Inductive Logic
Abductive Reasoning
The scientific image
The Best Explanation
When Is Parsimony a Virtue
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |