Assessing Scientific Reasoning
Scientists reason in different ways. They do, of course, use deductive and inductive
arguments, but they also use other argument types. It is the task of the philosopher
of science to identify these argument types and to provide a careful philosophical
analysis of them. In this talk Hartmann will mainly focus on inference to the best
explanation (IBE) and the no-alternatives argument (NAA) and show that both can be
formally analyzed in a similar way.
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