Calling for Explanation
(Sprache: Englisch)
The idea that there are some facts that call for explanation serves as an unexamined premise in influential arguments for the inexistence of moral or mathematical facts and for the existence of a god and of other universes. This book is the first to offer a...
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The idea that there are some facts that call for explanation serves as an unexamined premise in influential arguments for the inexistence of moral or mathematical facts and for the existence of a god and of other universes. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive and critical treatment of this idea. It argues that calling for explanation is a sometimes-misleading figure of speech rather than a fundamental property of facts.
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The idea that there are some facts that call for explanation serves as an unexamined premise in influential arguments for the inexistence of moral or mathematical facts and for the existence of a god and of other universes. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive and critical treatment of this idea. It argues that calling for explanation is a sometimes-misleading figure of speech rather than a fundamental property of facts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Calling for Explanation “
Dedication; 1. Introducing an Idea: Facts That Call for Explanation; 2. Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Their Relationship with the Striking Principle; 3. What is Strikingness?; 4. What Kind of Explanation?; 5. Is the Striking Principle Privileged?; 6. A New Way of Thinking About Calling for Explanation; References; Acknowledgements; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Dan Baras
Dan Baras is a Martin Buber fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Dan Baras
- 2022, 200 Seiten, 3 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 14,7 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0197633641
- ISBN-13: 9780197633649
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
I am not entirely convinced by Baras's arguments, though I found them fascinating and, indeed, I encountered something worth thinking about on nearly every page of this book. Analysis
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