Extensions and modifications to explanatory coherence

Gerard Vreeswijk

doi:10.1093/lpr/mgw005

Extensions and modifications to explanatory coherence

Law Probability and Risk ◽

10.1093/lpr/mgw005 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 199-221 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gerard Vreeswijk

Keyword(s):

Explanatory Coherence

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Explanatory Coherence and Belief Revision in Naive Physics

10.21236/ada201093 ◽

1988 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Michael Ranney ◽

Paul Thagard

Keyword(s):

Belief Revision ◽

Explanatory Coherence ◽

Naive Physics

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Reliability profile of an information source: The most basic version

Theoria Beograd ◽

10.2298/theo2001107n ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 107-121

Author(s):

Adam Nedeljkovic

Keyword(s):

Information Sources ◽

Information Source ◽

Prima Facie ◽

The Other ◽

Interesting Connection ◽

Explanatory Coherence ◽

Information Set ◽

The One ◽

Basic Version ◽

Formal Theories

The aim of this paper is an attempt at analyses and reconciliation of some prima facie confronted theories of reliability in the context of formal theories of coherence. Formal coherentists attempted to show that there is an epistemologically interesting connection between coherence of an information set and reliability of information sources. Amongst these authors there are divisions and differences concerning the nature of coherence, as well as the nature of reliability. On the one side, we have before us probabilistic coherentists who support a statistical understanding of reliability. On the other side we have supporters of explanatory coherence who see reliability as a dispostition. There are two goals that we shall attempt to achieve in this paper: to present and explain some ideas of reliability, without going into fine detailes and depths of theories in which they were formulated and to show that those ideas about reliability are not that irreconcilable as they might appear, but that they together can form something that we shall call ?reliability profile of an information source?, ?the most basic version?, or shorter: RPISbasic.

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