INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION AND DISJUNCTIVE EXPLANATIONS

• Authors: Jaeho Lee
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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In this paper the author will examine Helen Beebee’s argument that anti-Humeans are not in a better position to justify induction. First he will argue that her argument proves too much and that it can jeopardize the status of inference to the best explanation as a useful inductive principle. Then the author will propose a principle that should govern our use of disjunctive explanations in the context of inference to the best explanation and show that Beebee’s use of disjunctive explanations violates this principle.

Keywords

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HELEN BEEBEE; DISJUNCTIVE EXPLANATION

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 143 - 162

Contributors

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Jaeho Lee

• Chung-Ang University, Department of Philosophy, 84 Heukseok-ro, Donjak-gu, Seoul 156-756, Korea