Works
- Inference to the Best Explanation, Routledge; second edition 2004, 1991
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A Cambridge philosopher of science who gave the standard book-length treatment of inference to the best explanation, the inference from the evidence to the hypothesis that would best explain it. He distinguished the likeliest explanation from the loveliest, the one that would give the most understanding, and gave a contrastive account of explanation.