INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION

By seguindo, Fumerton. 2004

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “holarship in psychology, education and philosophy makes it clear that explanation, as a cognitive process, is closely related to abductive inference that is, “inference to the best explanation" (Harman, 1965; Overton, 2012, 2013). The literatures in psychology, education and philosophy make it ”
Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) Versus Explaining for the Best Inference (EBI) (2015, background): “In an empirical hypothesis with echoes of this view, Alison Gopnik (1998) suggests that we have evolved to value explanations precisely because of their instrumental role in motivating us to identify the causal structure of the world.”
Explaining Explanation, Part 1: Theoretical Foundations (2017, background): “4,14 He also referred abduction as “hypothetic infer-ence”—the inferring of a hypothetical explanation from an observed surprising circumstance.”
Explanations and Context in the Emergence of Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning (2011, background): “Epistemologically, there are two kinds of abduction (Magnini, 2009): An abduction that generates a plausible hypothesis (e.g., Peirce), and an abduction that evaluates if this is the best explanation to the inference (Harman, 1965; Lipton, 2004).”
A Survey of Contrastive and Counterfactual Explanation Generation Methods for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (2021, background): “In other words, a given observation can be explained on the basis of the most likely among a pool of competing hypotheses [21].”
Mental Disorders as Causal Systems (2015, background): “However, progressively sophisticated network methods, combined with data from other sources, can support a causal abductive inference or inference to the best explanation (Harman, 1965).”
Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012, background): “For example, Harman (1965) introduced the notion of “inference to the best explanation,” according to which “one infers, from the fact that a certain hypothesis would explain the evidence, to the truth of that hypothesis … one infers, from the premise that a given hypothesis would provide a…”
Explanation and understanding (2015, background): “Choices between explanations have been described as operating through a process known as inference to the best explanation (IBE) (Harman 1965).”
HARKing's Threat to Organizational Research: Evidence From Primary and Meta‐Analytic Sources (2016, unknown): “HARKing has long been a topic of debate among philosophers of science, who distinguish between hypotheses built as predictions (i.e., a priori) versus accommodations (i.e., a posteriori; e.g., Harker, 2008; Lipton, 2001; White, 2003).”
Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studies (2014, background): “Findings from MR studies need to be interpreted in the context of other evidence related to the particular issue under investigation, and as such, it will contribute to the application of ‘inference to the best explanation’ (84) approaches to strengthening causal inference.”
Can network analysis transform psychopathology? (2016, unknown): “Progressively sophisticated methods, combined with data from other sources, can support a causal abductive inference (Peirce, 1901/1940) or inference to the best explanation (Harman, 1965), just as they do in epidemiology.”
Animal sentience and the precautionary principle (2017, unknown): “This sort of “inference to the best explanation” is wide spread in science (Lipton 2004) and provides a reasonable way to justify the choice of indicators of sentience in the absence of an agreed theory of consciousness.”
Plausibility Judgments in Conceptual Change and Epistemic Cognition (2016, background): “A study by Bra ten, Strømsø, and Britt (2009) showed that individuals’ trustworthiness perceptions of different information sources on climate change related strongly to their comprehension. Trustworthiness as a measure of source credibility (Mason, Ariasi, & Boldrin, 2011) may influence the initial”