A Defense of Low-Probability Scientific Explanations.

I evaluate the plausibility of explanatory elitism, the view that a good scientific explanation of an outcome will show that it was highly probable. I consider an argument from Michael Strevens that elitism is the only view that can account for the historical acceptance of probabilistic theories in...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 91 - 113
Autor principal: Clatterbuck, Hayley
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jan2020
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