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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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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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How to Make AlphaGo’s Children Explainable
Philosophies, 2022 Under the rubric of understanding the problem of explainability of AI in terms of abductive cognition, I propose to review the lessons from AlphaGo and her more powerful successors.
Woosuk Park
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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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Naturalizing Logic: How Knowledge of Mechanisms Enhances Inductive Inference
Philosophies, 2021 This paper naturalizes inductive inference by showing how scientific knowledge of real mechanisms provides large benefits to it. I show how knowledge about mechanisms contributes to generalization, inference to the best explanation, causal inference, and
Paul Thagard
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Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Can contemporary cognitive science explain clinical expertise? We argue that the answer could be “no.” In support of this, we provide an analysis of two of the most essential expressions of clinical expertise in nursing and medicine, the ability to run a
Mark Fedyk +3 more
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Bidirectional Inference Model with Multiple Latent Variables Based on Variational Auto-encoders [PDF]
Jisuanji kexue, 2023 One of the key tasks of open-domain dialog system is to generate diverse and coherent dialog responses.However,one-way inference from above information alone cannot achieve this goal.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a bidirectional inference ...
ZHAO Yanbin, SU Jindian
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Induction, deduction and inference to the best explanation
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 Starting from the concept of abduction coined by Pierce, Harman, Josephson and Psillos have recently claimed that inference to the best explanation is the scientific method par excellence and favour a realist conception of scientific theories.
Rodolfo Gaeta
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Methods of Inference and Shaken Baby Syndrome
Philosophy of Medicine, 2023 Exploring the early development of an area of medical literature can inform contemporary medical debates. Different methods of inference include deduction, induction, abduction, and inference to the best explanation.
Nicholas Binney
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Inference to the best neuroscientific explanation
Studies in History and Philosophy of ScienceNeuroscientists routinely use reverse inference (RI) to draw conclusions about cognitive processes from neural activation data. However, despite its widespread use, the methodological status of RI is a matter of ongoing controversy, with some critics arguing that it should be rejected wholesale on the grounds that it instantiates a deductively invalid ...
Davide Coraci +2 more
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