"What is a good epistemic justification of a belief?" The monograph "Begründungsstrategien" offers an introduction to modern epistemology in answering this question. The author investigates the pros and cons of classic fundamentalistic approaches. He argues that we have to give up many empiristic and rationalistic ideas we are fond of. The only convincing strategies of justification are coherentist ones with inference to the best explanation as a central method of connecting and unifying our beliefs.
In this approach the question, what makes one explanation better than an other, deserves special attention. The author gives the answer in form of a new theory of explanation. Thereby, the book also will become a central work in the discussion about explanation in the philosophy of science.
In this approach the question, what makes one explanation better than an other, deserves special attention. The author gives the answer in form of a new theory of explanation. Thereby, the book also will become a central work in the discussion about explanation in the philosophy of science.
