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The Crux of Crucial Experiments: Duhem’s Problems and Inference to the Best Explanation
Methodology crucial experiments Duhem
2008/4/21
Going back at least to Duhem, there is a tradition of thinking that crucial experiments are impossible in science. I analyse Duhem’s arguments and show that they are based on the excessively strong as...
The Infinite Universe and Dembski’s Design Inference
design inference intelligent design creationism
2008/4/21
Did God create life? Or did life arise via naturalistic processes, along the lines of random mutation and natural selection as suggested by Darwin? Intelligent design proponents attempt to use William...
Thought Experiments and the Inference to a Coherent Explanation
thought experiment scientific explanation
2008/4/21
This talk proposes a solution to the "paradox of thought experiments": how seemingly new empirical insights are derived by “thought experiments” which are entirely conducted inside one’s head, so to s...
The literature on causal discovery has focused on interventions that involve randomly assigning values to a single variable. But such a randomized intervention is not the only possibility, nor is it a...
Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Feminist Bank Tellers
Bayesianism Inference to the Best Explanation
2008/4/14
Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism have both been proposed as descriptions of the way that people make inferences. This paper argues that one result from cognitive psychology, the "femi...
This paper analyzes Deborah Mayo's error-statistical (ES) account of scientific evidence in order to clarify the kinds of "material postulates" it requires and to explain how those assumptions functio...