The Availability Heuristic and Inference to the Best Explanation

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Logos and Episteme Pub Date : 2019-12-17 DOI:10.5840/logos-episteme201910437

M. Shaffer

引用次数: 5

Abstract

This paper shows how the availability heuristic can be used to justify inference to the best explanation in such a way that van Fraassen's infamous "best of a bad lot" objection can be adroitly avoided. With this end in mind, a dynamic and contextual version of the erotetic model of explanation sufficient to ground this response is presented and defended.

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最佳解释的可得性启发式与推论

本文展示了如何使用可得性启发式来证明对最佳解释的推断，从而巧妙地避免了van Fraassen臭名昭著的“坏人中取其精华”的反对意见。考虑到这一目的，我们提出并捍卫了一种足以支撑这种反应的情色解释模型的动态和情境版本。

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Logos and Episteme Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

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0.40

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20 weeks

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