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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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 91 - 113
Main Author:	Clatterbuck, Hayley
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Jan2020
Subjects:	Elitism Explanation Probability theory Virtue Argument Probabilistic number theory
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