arXiv
Open Access
2020
From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning
Zachary Wojtowicz
Simon DeDeo
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Recent work in cognitive science has uncovered a diversity of explanatory values, or dimensions along which we judge explanations as better or worse. We propose a Bayesian account of how these values fit together to guide explanation. The resulting taxonomy provides a set of predictors for which explanations people prefer and shows how core values from psychology, statistics, and the philosophy of science emerge from a common mathematical framework. In addition to operationalizing the explanatory virtues associated with, for example, scientific argument-making, this framework also enables us to reinterpret the explanatory vices that drive conspiracy theories, delusions, and extremist ideologies.
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Zachary Wojtowicz
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Simon DeDeo
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