Best Explanations
New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation
Edited by Kevin McCain and Ted Poston
Author Information
Edited by Kevin McCain, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Ted Poston, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Alabama
Kevin McCain is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research focuses on issues in epistemology and philosophy of science-particularly where these areas intersect. In addition to numerous journal articles, he has written two books: Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge, 2014) and The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (Springer, 2016).
Ted Poston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama. He has written many articles in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. His first book Reason and Explanation (Palgrave-Macmillan) offers a contemporary defense of explanatory coherentism. His second book, written with Adam Carter, A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-How (Bloomsbury) presents a sustained argument that knowledge-how is a unique grasp of non-propositional reality.
Contributors:
James R. Beebe, State University of New York at Buffalo
Alexander Bird, University of Bristol
J. Adam Carter, Eidyn Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
Igor Douven, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Institut des Sciences humaines et sociales (INSHS)
Elizabeth Fricker, University of Oxford
Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa
Ali Hasan, University of Iowa
Leah Henderson, University of Groningen
Kareem Khalifa, Middlebury College
Kevin McCain-Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Timothy McGrew, Western Michigan University
Jared Millson, Agnes Scott College
Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto
Ted Poston, University of South Alabama
Duncan Pritchard, University of Edinburgh
Susanna Rinard, Harvard University
Mark Risjord, Emory University
William Roche, Texas Christian University
Jonah Schupbach, University of Utah
Ruth Weintraub, Tel Aviv University