Blanchard, Thomas (2018) Bayesianism and Explanatory Unification: A Compatibilist Account. Philosophy of Science, 85. pp. 682-703. ISSN 0031-8248
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Abstract
Proponents of IBE claim that the ability of a hypothesis to explain a range of phenomena
in a unifying way contributes to the hypothesis’s credibility in light of these phenomena.
I propose a Bayesian justification of this claim that reveals a hitherto unnoticed role for
explanatory unification in evaluating the plausibility of a hypothesis: considerations of
explanatory unification enter into the determination of a hypothesis’s prior by affecting
its ‘explanatory coherence’, that is, the extent to which the hypothesis offers mutually
cohesive explanations of various phenomena.
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Keywords: | IBE, Bayesianism, Explanatory Unification, Probability | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation |
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Depositing User: | Thomas Blanchard | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 26 May 2023 19:57 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 26 May 2023 19:57 | ||||||
Item ID: | 22142 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Science | ||||||
Publisher: | Philosophy of Science Association | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation |
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Date: | October 2018 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 682-703 | ||||||
Volume: | 85 | ||||||
ISSN: | 0031-8248 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22142 |
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