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From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning

Zachary Wojtowicz S. 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 these values that clarifies their function and shows how they fit together to guide explanation-making. The resulting taxonomy shows that core values from psychology, statistics, and the philosophy of science emerge from a common mathematical framework and provide insight into why people adopt the explanations they do. This framework not only operationalizes the explanatory virtues associated with, for example, scientific argument-making, but also enables us to reinterpret the explanatory vices that drive phenomena such as conspiracy theories, delusions, and extremist ideologies.

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Psychology Medicine Computer Science Biology Mathematics

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Zachary Wojtowicz

S. Dedeo

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Wojtowicz, Z., Dedeo, S. (2020). From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TICS.2020.09.013

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Tahun Terbit: 2020
Bahasa: en
Total Sitasi: 36×
Sumber Database: Semantic Scholar
DOI: 10.1016/J.TICS.2020.09.013
Akses: Open Access ✓