A central challenge to scientific realism is that inference to the best explanation is untrustworthy because there are often no grounds for supposing that true explanations were considered in the first place. For all we know, we might be inferring to the best of a bad lot. This video introduces this challenge.
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Further reading:
Dellsen, "Reactionary responses to the bad lot objection"
Khalifa, "Default privilege and bad lots"
Lipton, "Is the best good enough?"
Lipton, "Inference to the Best Explanation"
Wray, "Resisting Scientific Realism"
0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - Inference to the best explanation
3:45 - The best of a bad lot?
11:19 - Epistemic privilege
17:09 - Misunderstanding IBE?
24:28 - Comparative vs absolute evaluation
36:52 - Background theories
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