Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics
This article claims the validity of abductive reasoning, or inference to the best explanation, as a practice of discovery of explanatory scientific hypotheses. Along the way to achieve this objective I present here a series of arguments that question the feasibility of Bayesianism as a theory of sc...
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Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Departamento de Filosofía
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This article claims the validity of abductive reasoning, or inference to the best explanation, as a practice of discovery of explanatory scientific hypotheses. Along the way to achieve this objective I present here a series of arguments that question the feasibility of Bayesianism as a theory of scientific confirmation. Having solved this issue, I resort to an episode of contemporary astrocosmology that I interpret as an eloquent example of the effectiveness of abductive methodology in contemporary theoretical physics.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab4e188aa2ae442e80ddb034162688612023-02-27T22:59:59ZengUniversidad de Santiago de Chile, Departamento de FilosofíaCulturas Cientificas0719-98562018-04-0111Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in PhysicsAndrés Rivadulla0Universidad Complutense de Madrid This article claims the validity of abductive reasoning, or inference to the best explanation, as a practice of discovery of explanatory scientific hypotheses. Along the way to achieve this objective I present here a series of arguments that question the feasibility of Bayesianism as a theory of scientific confirmation. Having solved this issue, I resort to an episode of contemporary astrocosmology that I interpret as an eloquent example of the effectiveness of abductive methodology in contemporary theoretical physics. https://www.revistas.usach.cl/ojs/index.php/culturas/article/view/3541Scientific explanationabductioninference to the best explanationBayesianismpulsarsgravitational waves |
| spellingShingle | Andrés Rivadulla Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics Culturas Cientificas Scientific explanation abduction inference to the best explanation Bayesianism pulsars gravitational waves |
| title | Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics |
| title_full | Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics |
| title_fullStr | Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics |
| title_short | Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics |
| title_sort | abduction bayesianism and best explanations in physics |
| topic | Scientific explanation abduction inference to the best explanation Bayesianism pulsars gravitational waves |
| url | https://www.revistas.usach.cl/ojs/index.php/culturas/article/view/3541 |
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