- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Summary
- "This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for explanation, an idea that underlies influential debates in metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. Special attention is given to reliability arguments in philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, and fine-tuning arguments in philosophy of religion and cosmology. The book clarifies what it might mean to say that a fact calls for explanation, singling out an epistemic sense that is the focus of most of the book, and maps out possible views about which facts call for explanation and what kind of explanation they call for. It then develops a novel way of thinking about calling for explanation. It is argued that calling for explanation is a figurative form of speech without a fixed meaning. This in turn sheds new light on arguments premised on there being a fact that calls for explanation"--
- Uniform Title
- Calling for explanation (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Calling for explanation (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction an idea : facts that call for explanation -- Inference to the best explanation, Bayesianism, and their relationship with the striking principle -- What is strikingness? -- What kind of explanation? -- Is the striking principle privileged? -- A new way of thinking about calling for explanation.
- LCCN
- 2022010805
- OCLC
- ssj0002668278
- Author
Baras, Dan.
- Title
Calling for explanation [electronic resource] / Dan Baras.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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