Peter Lipton
（2004年刊行，Routledge［International Library of Philosophy］, London， ISBN:0415242029 [hbk] / ISBN:0415242037 [pbk]）
【目次】
Preface to the second edition ix
Preface to the first edition xiIntroduction 1
1. Induction 5
Underdetermination 5
Justification 7
Description 112. Explanation 21
Understanding explanation 21
Reason, familiality, deduction, unification, necessity 233. The causal model 30
Fact and foil 30
Failed reductions and false differences 37
Causal triangulation 414. Inference to the Best Explanation 55
Spelling out the slogan 55
Attractions and repulsions 645. Contrastive inference 71
A case study 71
Explanation and deduction 826. The raven paradox 91
Unsuitable contrasts 91
The Method of Agreement 997. Bayesian abduction 103
The Bayesian approach 103
The Bayesian and the explanationist should be friends 107
Contrastive inference revisited 1178. Explanation as a guide to inference 121
The guilding claim 121
Improved coverage 126
Explanatory obsessions 128
From cause to explanation 1329. Loveliness and truth 142
Voltaire's objection 142
The two-stage process 148
Is the best good enough? 15110. Prediction and prejudice 164
The puzzle 164
The fudging explanation 168
Actual and assessed support 17711. Truth and explanation 184
Circularity 184
A bad expanation 192
The scientific evidence 198Conclusion 207
Bibliography 211
Index 217
