Criteria for deciding what is the ’best’ scientific explanation
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| Publication date | 2016 |
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| Book title | Argumentation and Reasoned Action |
| Book subtitle | proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon 2015 |
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| Series | Studies in Logic |
| Event | 1st European Conference on Argumentation |
| Volume | Issue number | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 43-54 |
| Publisher | London: College Publications |
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| Abstract | In justifying their choice of the ‘best’ scientific explanation from a number of candidate explanations, scientists may employ specific theoretical virtues and other criteria for good scientific theories. This paper is aimed at providing an inventory of such criteria and at analyzing how they function argumentatively by indicating their systematic place within the pattern of argumentation based on abduction. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://www.academia.edu/24361368/Criteria_for_deciding_what_is_the_best_scientific_explanation |
| Other links | http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/logic/sla/?00007 http://ecargument.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Arg._Reasoned_Action_Vol.2_Covers_TOC.pdf |
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