Bibliografia doktoratu
Lipton Peter,2004-Inference-to-the-Best-Explanation-Routledge
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Opis bibliograficzny
P. Lipton – „Science works by looking for explanations” – nauka polega na poszukiwaniu najlepszego wyjaśnienia danych.
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Preface to the second edition ix
Preface to the first edition xi
Introduction 1
1 Induction 5
Underdetermination 5
Justification 7
Description 11
2 Explanation 21
Understanding explanation 21
Reason, familiarity, deduction, unification, necessity 23
3 The causal model 30
Fact and foil 30
Failed reductions and false differences 37
Causal triangulation 41
4 Inference to the Best Explanation 55
Spelling out the slogan 55
Attractions and repulsions 64
5 Contrastive inference 71
A case study 71
Explanation and deduction 82
6 The raven paradox 91
Unsuitable contrasts 91
The Method of Agreement 99
7 Bayesian abduction 103
The Bayesian approach 103
The Bayesian and the explanationist should be friends 107
Contrastive inference revisited 117
8 Explanation as a guide to inference 121
The guiding claim 121
Improved coverage 126
Explanatory obsessions 128
From cause to explanation 132
9 Loveliness and truth 142
Voltaire’s objection 142
The two-stage process 148
Is the best good enough? 151
10 Prediction and prejudice 164
The puzzle 164
The fudging explanation 168
Actual and assessed support 177
11 Truth and explanation 184
Circularity 184
A bad explanation 192
The scientific evidence 198
Conclusion 207
Bibliography 211
Index 217
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