New advances in causation, agency and moral responsibility

Table of Contents: “…Explanatory depth, inference to the best explanation and proportionality /…”
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Understanding philosophy of science by Ladyman, James, 1969-

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Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences by Haig, Brian D., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Method, methodology, and realism -- Detecting psychological phenomena -- Theory generation: exploratory factor analysis -- Theory development: analogical modeling -- Theory appraisal: inference to the best explanation.…”
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Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences by Haig, Brian D., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Method, methodology, and realism -- Detecting psychological phenomena -- Theory generation: exploratory factor analysis -- Theory development: analogical modeling -- Theory appraisal: inference to the best explanation.…”
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The sceptical challenge by Weintraub, Ruth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Transcendent scepticism and inference to the best explanation -- 10. The demon argument revisited -- 11. …”
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Laws and symmetry by Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…; Ideal science: David Lewis's account of laws ; Necessity, worlds, and chance ; Universals: laws grounded in nature -- Part II, Belief as rational but lawless. Inference to the best explanation: salvation by laws? ; Towards a new epistemology ; What if there are no laws? …”
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Bas van Fraassen : the Fortunes of Empiricism. by Berg-Hildebrand, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…Preamble: on Literate Experience and Realism1 Observability and the Epistemic Community; 1.1 Factual claims; 1.2 The factual claim of observability; 1.3 Our epistemic community; 2 To be Prussian or not to be Prussian -- van Fraassen and the Inference to the Best Explanation; 2.1 Initial arguments using IBE in support of scientific realism; 2.2 The 'best of a bad lot' argument; 2.3 The 'argument from indifference'; 2.4 Do we now have succor to offer the scientific realist?…”
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Contemporary philosophy of religion by Duncan, Steven M.

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Applying scientific reasoning to the field of marketing : make better decisions by Grapentine, Terry

Table of Contents: “…Logic: deduction, induction, and inference to the best explanation -- 11. Arguments and logical fallacies -- Section 3. …”
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Theories of Scientific Method : an Introduction. by Nola, Robert

Table of Contents: “…; 4.3 A priori, empirical and expressivist approaches to metamethodology; 4.4 The metamethodology of reflective equilibrium; 4.5 The historical turn, methods and metamethods; II Inductive and hypothetico-deductive methods; 5 Induction in science; 5.1 Deduction and induction; 5.2 From induction to probability and confirmation; 5.3 Enumerative induction; 5.4 The rule of inference to the best explanation; 5.5 The problem of grue; 5.6 Simplicity of equations.…”
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Thought. by Harman, Gilbert

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Myth of Universal Human Rights : Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way. by Stamos, David N.

Table of Contents: “…Confucius, Cyrus, and the KoranAncient Greeks; Ancient Romans; Medieval Scholars; Grotius, Hobbes, and Pufendorf; Chapter 5: Getting the History of Human Rights Right; The English Levellers; Locke; Jefferson to the Present; Chapter 6: Explaining the Human Rights Epidemic; Memetics; The Democracy Connection; Competing Explanations; Inference to the Best Explanation; Resistance to the Human Rights Epidemic; Evolutionary Psychology and Fairness; Chapter 7: Evolution, Ethics, and Justice; Bentham and MacIntyre; The Elephant and the Blind Indians; Naturalized Normative Ethics; Naturalia.…”
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Analytic philosophy of religion : its history since 1955 by Duncan, Steven M.

Table of Contents: “…Mackie's Critique of Swinburne; Inference to the Best Explanation and the Future of Inductivism; The Ontological Argument Redivivus; The Classical Ontological Argument(s); Hartshorne, Findlay and Malcolm: The Modal Ontological Argument; Possible Worlds; Plantinga's Ontological Argument; The Cosmological Argument Redivivus; The Leibniz/Clarke Argument.…”
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Indispensability of Mathematics. by Colyvan, Mark

Table of Contents: “…""3.5 Rejecting Inference to the Best Explanation""""3.6 The Content of Scientific Theories""; ""3.7 The Moral""; ""3.8 Recapitulation""; ""4 Field's Fictionalism""; ""4.1 The Science without Numbers Project""; ""4.2 What Is It to Be Indispensable?""…”
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The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis by McGrath, Alister E.

Table of Contents: “…Desire, Faith, and Inference to the Best Explanation -- Conclusion -- 6: Reason, Experience, and Imagination: Lewis's Apologetic Method -- Language: The Translation of Faith -- The Appeal to Reason -- The Appeal to Human Longing -- The Appeal to the Human Imagination -- Conclusion -- 7: A "Mere Christian": Anglicanism and Lewis's Religious Identity -- Lewis's Suspicions of Denominationalism -- Anglicanism and Lewis's Reconversion -- Anglicanism as a Local Enactment of Faith -- The Absence of an Anglican Ecclesiology -- Lewis and Anglican Theological Method -- Lewis and the Via Media -- Conclusion…”
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A critical introduction to testimony by Gelfert, Axel

Table of Contents: “…Testimony and inference to the best explanation; Study questions; Further reading; 7 Testimonial knowledge: Transmission and generation; 1. …”
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Bayesian networks for probabilistic inference and decision analysis in forensic science by Taroni, Franco

Table of Contents: “…1.2.1 The Hound of the Baskervilles1.2.2 Combination of background information and evidence; 1.2.3 The odds form of Bayes' theorem; 1.2.4 Combination of evidence; 1.2.5 Reasoning with total evidence; 1.2.6 Reasoning with uncertain evidence; 1.3 Population proportions, probabilities and induction; 1.3.1 The statistical syllogism; 1.3.2 Expectations and population proportions; 1.3.3 Probabilistic explanations; 1.3.4 Abduction and inference to the best explanation; 1.3.5 Induction the Bayesian way; 1.4 Decision making under uncertainty; 1.4.1 Bookmakers in the Courtrooms?…”
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