Casting inference to the best explanation's lot with active inference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20141901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Majid D Beni (0000-0002-8719-0825, Department of Philosophy Middle East Technical University Ankara Turkey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 188-203 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/theo.12455 |
| OpenAlex | W4319000888 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
This paper draws on the resources of computational neuroscience (an account of active inference under the free energy principle) to address Bas van Fraassen's bad lot objection to the inference to the best explanation (IBE). The general assumption of this paper is that IBE is a finessed form of active inferences that self‐organising systems perform to maximise the chance of their survival. Under this assumption, the paper aims to establish the following points: first, the capacity to learn to perform explanatory inferences comes with evolutionary privileges; second, adaptive actions guide beliefs and beliefs are action‐oriented; and third, IBE is not inconsistent with (approximate) Bayesianism but plays a heuristic role to it
Action (physics) · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Free energy principle · Heuristic · Inference · Machine learning · Mathematical economics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Mathematics · Neural dynamics and brain function · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
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Predictive coding in the visual cortex
Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control
The free-energy principle
From cognitivism to autopoiesis
Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence
The anticipating brain is not a scientist
Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle
Metaphysical underdetermination
Reactionary responses to the Bad Lot Objection
Van Fraassen's critique of inference to the best explanation
The Inference to the Best Explanation
On Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology
Explanatory Consolidation
Confirmation, Heuristics, and Explanatory Reasoning
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation
Inference to the Best Explanation, Dutch Books, and Inaccuracy Minimisation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |