Why explanatory considerations matter

DOI10.1007/S10670-019-00114-5MaRDI QIDQ6652861zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Miloud Belkoniene

Publication date 13 December 2024

Published in Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10670-019-00114-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Recommendations

• Background beliefs and plausibility thresholds: defending explanationist evidentialism
• Explanatoriness is evidentially irrelevant, or inference to the best explanation meets Bayesian confirmation theory
• Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality

Cites work

• ON POPPER'S DEFINITIONS OF VERISIMILITUDE¹
• POPPER'S QUALITATIVE THEORY OF VERISIMILITUDE
• The development of the Hintikka program
• Truth approximation via abductive belief change
• Verisimilitude and belief change for nomic conjunctive theories
• Verisimilitude and content
• Verisimilitude by means of short theorems
• Zwart and Franssen's impossibility theorem holds for possible-world-accounts but not for consequence-accounts to verisimilitude

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