Twenty philosophers offer new essays examining the form of reasoning known as inference to the best explanation - widely used in science and in our everyday liv

Inference to the Best Explanation is an unrivalled exposition of a theory of particular interest to students both of epistemology and the philosophy of science.

'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a p

Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individua

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