Confirmation, Heuristics, and Explanatory Reasoning

By T. McGrew. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2003

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy

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• A Second Look at the Logic of Explanatory Power (with Two Novel Representation Theorems) (2012, background): “…they criticize an important competing measure of explanatory power—that is, Iðe; hÞ ¼ ln½PðejhÞ=PðeÞ —originally adopted by Good (1960) and more recently by McGrew (2003): Consider the following example: let e be a general description of the Brownian motion observed in some particles suspended…”