Inference to the Best Explanation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23389425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Lipton (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Inference to the Best Explanation, Peter Milne, 1993 |
| Venue | Inference to the Best Explanation (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203470855 |
| OpenAlex | W2101114811 |
| Open Library | OL39976949M |
| ISBN | 9780203470855 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 510 |
| References cited | 5 |
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.
Inference · Artificial Intelligence · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Computer Science · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy · Science
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Reasonable Disagreement
Nietzsche and Wagner
Nietzsche’s Untimely Antiquity
The marriage of critical realism and Marxism
Social Theory of International Politics
The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
Trying Leviathan
Comparison in Anthropology
A Multi Theory Approach for Studying Presumed Ritual Pottery - The Stirrup Spout Bottle as a Case Study from the Pre-Hispanic Andes
Freedom through constraint
Not Only Rivers and Mountains
Abdução, inferência da melhor explicação e argumentos realistas
Social capital, population health, and the gendered statistics of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality
The Role of Experts in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Limits of Their Epistemic Authority in Democracy
The Fate of Explanatory Reasoning in the Age of Big Data
Metaphors as tools for understanding in science communication among experts and to the public
A distinção entre geração e aceitação de teorias científicas
Dinossauros, pirâmides e sintomas
Making sense of the evidence in population health intervention research
Fake News and Epistemic Vice
The Magic of Ad Hoc Solutions
Inferência Da Melhor Explicação E Inferência Da Única Explicação
Verdades y redescripciones etnográficas
Bad Lots, Good Explanations
Harman on Relativism and Moral Diversity
Why did they do that
The Value of Understanding
Aesthetic values in science
Substantivalism vs Relationalism About Space in Classical Physics
The Instrumental Value of Explanations
Evidence
Afirmando o conseqüente
Inference from the best systematization
A conceptual problem for Stanford’s New Induction
Comparing abduction and retroduction in Peircean pragmatism and critical realism
Does the Truth Matter in Science
Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and Archaeology
Explanation in Agent-Based Modelling
Popperian methodology and the Semmelweis case
Prediction, accommodation and the periodic table
Paley's design argument as an inference to the best explanation, or, Dawkins' dilemma
Whewell on classification and consilience
Is Darwinism past its “sell-by” date? The Origin of Species at 150
When physics and biology meet
The search for the hematopoietic stem cell
In search of the best explanation about the nature of the gene
The negative view of natural selection
Evidence, illness, and causation
Irretrievably confused? Innateness in explanatory context
Differentiating and defusing theoretical Ecology's criticisms
Philosophy of epidemiology
The evolutionary psychology of human mating
The functions of fossils
Hempelian and Kuhnian approaches in the philosophy of medicine
Prediction in epidemiology and medicine
Disease as a theoretical concept
Semmelweis’s methodology from the modern stand-point
Why separate risk assessors and risk managers? Further external values affecting the risk assessor qua risk assessor
Abduction, IBE and standards of proof
How plausible is the relative plausibility theory of proof
Can there be a burden of the best explanation
Clarifying relative plausibility
On the limitations of a unitary model of the proof process
An epistemological analysis of the use of reputation as evidence
Quantification and realist methodologies
Assessing climate model projections
To envision a new particle or change an existing law? Hypothesis formation and anomaly resolution for the curious case of the β decay spectrum
Drawing the line between kinematics and dynamics in special relativity
Feminism, Realism, and Universalism
On how much one can take
Meaning Relations, Syntax, and Understanding
The logic of semiotics applied to mathematical and social interaction in operational research consulting practice
Holistic Mapping
Jean-Claude Gardin on Archaeological Data, Representation and Knowledge
The neural correlates of consciousness
How Does Grounded Theory Explain
Iterative lagged asymmetric responses in strategic management and long-range planning
The World as Representation
Explaining the past
Evolutionary psychology and design reincarnation
Tax mixes and the size of the welfare state
Complex systems, explanation and policy
A critical realist reply to Walters & Young
On Stephen Parsons' Philosophical Critique of Transcendental Realism
‘Suspension of Disbelief’
Some epistemological concerns about dissociative identity disorder and diagnostic practices in psychology
Good-death Beliefs and Cognition in Himalayan Pilgrimage
On the Epistemological Magic of Ethnographic Analysis
Elementary School Children’s Explanations of Day and Night
A Justification of Legitimate Teleological Explanations in Physics Education
What Are the Pragmatics of Explanation
Explanations of Research Misconduct, and How They Hang Together
Overhauling multinationals for the Anthropocene
Narrative expectations in financial forecasting
Hayek, Social Theory, and the Contrastive Explanation of Socio-Economic Order
Is Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic edifice relevant to the 21st century
An epistemic argument for evolutionary dispositions
Álgebras y tramas en el cálculo de riesgos
| Unique citing works | 471 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,45 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 208 |