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  • Alexander Bird (2005). Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference. In Tamar Szabo Gendler John Hawthorne (ed.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Oxford University Press.
    The usual, comparative, conception of Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) takes it to be ampliative. In this paper I propose a conception of IBE (‘Holmesian inference’) that takes it to be a species of eliminative induction and hence not ampliative. This avoids several problems for comparative IBE (e.g. how could it be reliable enough to generate knowledge?). My account of Holmesian inference raises the suspicion that it could never be applied, on the grounds that scientific hypotheses are inevitably underdetermined (...)
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  • Peter W. Ross & Dale Turner, Problems of Existence in Philosophy and Science.
    Despite Richard Dawkins’s recent claim that the standard philosophical problem of God’s existence is in fact a scientific problem, he suggests no strategy for determining whether an existence problem is scientific as opposed to philosophical. We offer such a strategy, the de-constitutionalizing strategy, according to which (1) existence problems are characterized in terms of causal roles, and (2) the categorization of these problems as philosophical or scientific is made in terms of the epistemic context of potential realizers. We’ll argue that (...)
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  • Jonathan Weisberg (2009). Locating Ibe in the Bayesian Framework. Synthese 167 (1).
    Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and Bayesianism are our two most prominent theories of scientific inference. Are they compatible? Van Fraassen famously argued that they are not, concluding that IBE must be wrong since Bayesianism is right. Writers since then, from both the Bayesian and explanationist camps, have usually considered van Fraassen’s argument to be misguided, and have plumped for the view that Bayesianism and IBE are actually compatible. I argue that van Fraassen’s argument is actually not so misguided, (...)
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