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Kevin McCain is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His academic research interests lie in epistemology and philosophy of science, focusing on the role of explanatory reasoning in the production of scientific knowledge. He is the author/editor of numerous articles and books, including Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (Oxford University Press, 2019), What Is Scientific Knowledge (Routledge, 2019) and The Nature of Scientific Knowledge (Springer, 2016).
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Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems

Kevin Mccain


OUP Oxford

2025-01-12

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Phenomenal Explanationism is a powerful new theory of epistemic justification that combines an explanationist conception of evidential support with an appearance-based or phenomenal conception of evidence. According to PE, epistemic justification is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems
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Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems


Kevin Mccain


Phenomenal Explanationism is a powerful new theory of epistemic justification that combines an explanationist conception of evidential support with an appearance-based or phenomenal conception of evidence. According to PE, epistemic justification is a matter of what...

Parution : 2025-04-02
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding How Science Explains the World
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Understanding How Science Explains the World


Kevin Mccain


All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whether it can be made to happen or not happen, and so on. In short, what we want are explanations. Asking and answering...

Parution : 2022-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Appearance and Explanation
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Appearance and Explanation


Kevin Mccain , Luca Moretti


Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification. Despite its popularity, it faces...

Parution : 2021-11-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Appearance and Explanation


Kevin Mccain , Luca Moretti


Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification. Despite its popularity, it faces...

Parution : 2021-11-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Uncertainty
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Uncertainty


Kostas Kampourakis , Kevin Mccain


Scientific knowledge is the most solid and robust kind of knowledge that humans have because of the self-correcting character inherent in its own processes. Nevertheless, anti-evolutionists, climate denialists, and anti-vaxxers, among others, question some of the...

Parution : 2019-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Believing in Accordance with the Evidence
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Believing in Accordance with the Evidence


Kevin Mccain


This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification. It contains more than 20 papers that examine its nuances, its challenges, as well as its future directions. Written by leading and up-and-coming epistemologists, the papers cover a wide array...

Parution : 2018-10-02
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Synthese Library
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Best Explanations


Kevin Mccain , Ted Poston


Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reasoning is common in everyday life. Despite its widespread use, inference to the best explanation is still in need of precise...

Parution : 2017-12-01
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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