On Three Measures of Explanatory Power with Axiomatic Representations.
Jonah N. Schupbach and Jan Sprenger ([2011]) and Vincenzo Crupi and Katya Tentori ([2012]) have recently proposed measures of explanatory power and have shown that they are characterized by certain arguably desirable conditions or axioms. I further examine the properties of these two measures, and a...
| Published in: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 1077 - 1090 |
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University of Chicago Press
Dec2016
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