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- Title
Inference to the best explanation and the new size elitism<sup>1</sup>.
- Abstract
In other words, advocates for IBE commonly voice the following conception of IBE alongside the subjunctive conception: Theoretical Conception of IBE: When considering, in light of your evidence, which of several hypotheses to believe, be most confident in whichever hypothesis best exemplifies the theoretical virtues. For example, much attention has been given to the question of whether Bayesianism and IBE are compatible.[2] However, the subjunctive conception of IBE does no work in this debate, which concerns whether and how using theoretical virtues as guides to theory choice is compatible with Bayesianism. So much the worse, perhaps, for the traditional list of theoretical virtues; perhaps the moral of my cases is not that the actual theoretical virtues fail to track otherworldly explanatory potential, but that the virtues I've considered are not the actual theoretical virtues. (p. 89) I'll call this conception of IBE "theoretical", since it describes IBE as involving judgements about how well various competing hypotheses exemplify the theoretical virtues.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of science; ZERO point energy; EXPLANATION
- Publication
Philosophical Perspectives, 2021, Vol 35, Issue 1, p170
- ISSN
1520-8583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/phpe.12148