New paper in Philosophical Studies (with @stephanhartmann.bsky.social):
We answer recent critiques of probabilistic measures with a coherence-based approach: explanatory power = how well the explanatory package coheres with the explanandum vs its negation.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Philosophical Studies - Recent critiques have cast doubt on the viability of probabilistic measures of explanatory power. We respond by developing a coherence-based family of measures that...