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 feasibililty of Bayesianism as a theory of sc...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2018 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/18591 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18591 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Scientific Explanation Abduction Inference to the Best Explanation Bayesianism Pulsars Gravitational Waves Explicación Científica Abducción Inferencia de la Mejor Explicación Bayesianismo Púlsares Ondas Gravitacionales Filosofía de la Ciencia 7205 Filosofía de la Ciencia |
| Summary: | 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 feasibililty 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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