The Existence of God
Swinburne, Richard Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 1991 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823963-5




3 The Justification of Explanation
doi:10.1093/0198239637.003.0004

Richard Swinburne
Abstract: An explanatory hypothesis (whether of the personal or scientific kind) is probable insofar as it makes probable the occurrence of many observed phenomena, the occurrence of which is not probable otherwise and insofar as it is simple and fits with background knowledge. This account of the probability of hypothesis is given precise form by Bayes's Theorem.

Keywords: Bayes's Theorem, explanation, probability, simplicity,

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Full Book Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Inductive Arguments
2 The Nature of Explanation
3 The Justification of Explanation
4 Complete Explanation
5 The Intrinsic Probability of Theism
6 The Explanatory Power of Theism: General Considerations
7 The Cosmological Argument
8 Teleological Arguments
9 Arguments from Consciousness and Morality
10 The Argument from Providence
11 The Problem of Evil
12 Arguments from History and Miracles
13 The Argument from Religious Experience
14 The Balance of Probability
Appendix
Index
 
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