Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) represents a central method in scientific inquiry, wherein the hypothesis that best accounts for the available evidence is provisionally accepted. This approach ...

This paper considers how to best relate the competing accounts of scientific knowledge that Russell and Reichenbach proposed in the 1930s and 1940s. At the heart of their disagreements are two ...

Political realism doesn’t outweigh scientific realism. This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation ...