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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2022 Over the last few decades, a critical revision of prior scholarship concerning Roman domestic space has led to the reappraisal of the traditional account of the atrium suggesting a possibility for this space to be ‘unroofed’.
Danilo Marco Campanaro
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On Inferring Explanations and Inference to the Best Explanation
Episteme, 2023 AbstractAlthough the inferring of explanations plays an important role in both our everyday lives and in the workings of science, I argue that inference to the best explanation as it is commonly conceived is often not the best way to capture this sort of reasoning. I suggest that a different form of reasoning – so-called immediate explanatory inference
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On Angels, Demons, and Ghosts: Is Justified Belief in Spiritual Entities Possible?
Religions, 2022 Belief in the existence of spiritual entities is an integral part of many people’s religious worldview. Angels appear, demons possess, ghosts haunt. But is belief that such entities exist justified? If not, are there conditions in which it would be?
David Kyle Johnson
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 It is important to reveal how humans evaluate an explanation of the recent development of explainable artificial intelligence. So, what makes people feel that one explanation is more likely than another?
Asaya Shimojo +2 more
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Bayesianism and inference to the best explanation
Theoria, 2008 Bayesianism and Inference to the best explanation (IBE) are two different models of inference. Recently there has been some debate about the possibility of “bayesianizing” IBE.
Valeriano IRANZO
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Putting inference to the best explanation into context
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2022 It is often assumed that Inference to the Best Explanation, or 'IBE', belongs to the context of justification. But several recent developments might lead one to ask whether it is more appropriate to situate it in the context of pursuit. Peircean abduction, which has been designated as an immediate precursor to IBE, is, according to recent scholarship ...
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The Inference to the Best Legal Explanation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 Abstract Courts use inferences to the best explanation in many contexts and for a variety of purposes. Yet our understanding of lawyers’ uses of this inferential form is insufficient. In this article, after briefly introducing this inferential form, I set out to: (i) explain the structure of such arguments by reference to an argument ...
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Does Scientific Realism Beg the Question?
Informal Logic, 1996 In a series of influential articles, the anti-realist Arthur Fine has repeatedly charged that a certain very popular argument for scientific realism, that only realism can explain the instrumental success of science, begs the question. I argue that on no
Geoffrey Gorham
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Theism and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
Ars Disputandi, 2002 AbstractIn this paper the author critically examines the explanatory role of theistic belief. Although talk of religious beliefs as explanations is commonly employed in the context of religious epistemology, it may also serve to simply characterise one of the functions of religious views of life.
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Crítica, 2019 Van Fraassen's argument from the "bad lot" challenges realist interpretations of inference to the best explanation (IBE). In this paper I begin by discussing the replies suggested by S. Psillos and P. Lipton. I do not find them convincing.
Valeriano Iranzo
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