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Inference to the best neuroscientific explanation

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Neuroscientists 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, Igor Douven, Gustavo Cevolani   +2 more
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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 ...
Michelon, Claudio
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Skepticism, Externalism and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]

, 2021
This paper focuses on a combination of the antiskeptical strategies offered by semantic externalism and the inference to the best explanation. I argue that the most difficult problems of the two strategies can be solved, if the strategies are combined ...
Jochen Briesen
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Swinburne's Confirmation Inductive Argument as the Best Explanation of Theism [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
Can atheistic explanations scientifically explain the world and humans? Can theistic deductive arguments provide a rational explanation of the world? Many philosophers of contemporary religion believe that deductive arguments for the existence of God are
Abbas Yazdani
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Review of P. Lipton: "Inference to the Best Explanation" (2nd ed.) [PDF]

, 2005
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Stephan Hartmann, Lefteris Farmakis
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The “Positive Argument” for Constructive Empiricism and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper, I argue that the “positive argument” for Constructive Empiricism (CE), according to which CE “makes better sense of science, and of scientific activity, than realism does” (van Fraassen 1980, 73), is an Inference to the Best Explanation ...
Moti Mizrahi
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Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
Having offered the “argument from bad lot”, Bas van Fraassen has raised an important criticism on the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and challenged scientific realism.
Amir Motesharei, Mostafa Taqavi
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Justifying Ockham’s Razor within Betz’s Theory of Dialectical Structures [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
According to Ockham’s razor, assumptions must not be unnecessarily multiplied. While this principle is widely accepted, its justification is controversial. More precisely, we don’t know whether Ockham’s razor is truth-conducive. The present paper aims to
Seyyed Mohammad Mahdi Etemadoleslami Bakhtiari
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Conjunctive Explanations and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]

, 2019
Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) advises reasoners to infer exactly one explanation. This uniqueness claim apparently binds us when it comes to “conjunctive explanations,” distinct explanations that are nonetheless explanatorily better together ...
Jonah N. Schupbach
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Induction and Natural Kinds Revisited [PDF]

, 2021
In ‘Induction and Natural Kinds’, I proposed a solution to the problem of induction according to which our use of inductive inference is reliable because it is grounded in the natural kind structure of the world. When we infer that unobserved members of
Sankey, Howard
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