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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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Téléchargez le livre : Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems
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
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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-04-02
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Télécharger le livre : Appearance and Explanation
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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-11-25
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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...

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

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-10-07
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Télécharger le livre : Believing in Accordance with the Evidence
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...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-02
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Télécharger le livre : Best Explanations
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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-12-01
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