Lesson 6a (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)

15 Abril 2020, 16:00 • Daniele Molinini

Three strategies to challenge the Skeptical Argument (SA): Sensitivity, Mooreanism and Contextualism. The influence of the skeptical argument in science: how do we defend knowledge attributions in science? Deduction in science (starting point: Aristotle's deductive conception of scientific knowledge). Induction (enumerative induction in Aristotle). Another form of non-necessary inference: 'abduction'. Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE). What do we mean by 'explanatory considerations'. What is an ‘explanation’? Distinction between descriptive knowledge (or knowledge  that something is the case) and explanatory knowledge (or knowledge  why something is the case).