IBE AND EBI: ON EXPLANATION BEFORE INFERENCE
Författare
Redaktör
- Johannes Persson
- Petri Ylikoski
Summary, in English
Inference to the best explanation (IBE) is theoretically interesting in that it promises to throw new light on what an explanation is. IBE challenges the standard view of the relation between inference and explanation. But sometimes it seems that previous explanation is more independent of inference than IBE suggests. Sometimes we have explanation before inference (EBI) which is not IBE. This chapter examines the possibility that the latter is the rule rather than the exception.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Rethinking Explanation
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Philosophy
Nyckelord
- inference to the best explanation
- abduction
- theory of explanation
Status
Published