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Best Explanations

New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation

Herausgeber: Mccain, Kevin; Poston, Ted

Beschreibung

Twenty philosophers offer new essays examining the form of reasoning known as inference to the best explanation - widely used in science and in our everyday lives, yet still controversial. Best Explanations represents the state of the art when it comes to understanding, criticizing, and defending this form of reasoning.

Autor

Kevin McCain is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research focuses on issues in epistemology and philosophy of science-particularly where these areas intersect. In addition to numerous journal articles, he has written two books: Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge, 2014) and The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (Springer, 2016). Ted Poston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama. He has written many articles in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. His first book Reason and Explanation (Palgrave-Macmillan) offers a contemporary defense of explanatory coherentism. His second book, written with Adam Carter, A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-How (Bloomsbury) presents a sustained argument that knowledge-how is a unique grasp of non-propositional reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780198746904
• ISBN-10: 0198746903
• Artikelnr.: 49790490