Peter Lipton (lipton-p)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Kusch, Martin and Lipton, Peter. 2002. “Testimony: A Primer.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33(2): 209–217.
Lipton, Peter. 1990. “Contrastive Explanations.” in Explanation and its Limits, edited by Dudley Knowles, pp. 247–266. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures n. 27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lipton, Peter. 1991. Inference to the Best Explanation. London: Routledge. Second edition: Lipton (2004a).
Lipton, Peter. 1993. “Is the Best Good Enough?” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93: 89–104.
Lipton, Peter. 1995. “Popper and Reliabilism.” in Karl Popper: Philosophy and Problems, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 31–44. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lipton, Peter. 1998. “The Epistemology of Testimony.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29(1): 1–31.
Lipton, Peter. 2001a. “Inference to the Best Explanation.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 184–193. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Lipton, Peter. 2001b. “What Good is An Explanation?” in Explanation. Theoretical Approaches and Applications, edited by Giora Hon and Sam S. Rakover, pp. 43–60. Synthese Library n. 302. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Lipton, Peter. 2001c. “Is Explanation A Guide to Inference? A Reply to Wesley C. Salmon [Salmon (2001)].” in Explanation. Theoretical Approaches and Applications, edited by Giora Hon and Sam S. Rakover, pp. 93–120. Synthese Library n. 302. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Lipton, Peter. 2002. “The Reach of the Law [on Cartwright (1999)].” Philosophical Books 43(4): 254–260.
Lipton, Peter. 2004a. Inference to the Best Explanation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. First edition: Lipton (1991).
Lipton, Peter. 2004b. “Epistemic Options [on van Fraassen (2002)].” Philosophical Studies 121(2): 147–158.
Lipton, Peter. 2005. “Waiting for Hume.” in Impressions of Hume, edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Peter J. E. Kail, pp. 59–76. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256525.001.0001.
Lipton, Peter. 2007a. “The Ravens Revisited.” in Philosophy of Science, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 75–96. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lipton, Peter. 2007b. “Précis of Lipton (2004a).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 421–423.
Lipton, Peter. 2007c. “Replies [to Bird (2007), Hitchcock (2007) and Psillos (2007)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 449–462.
Lipton, Peter. 2007d. “Accepting Contradictions.” in Images of Empiricism. Essays on Science and Stances, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, pp. 117–133. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199218844.001.0001.
Lipton, Peter. 2007e. “Alien Abduction: Inference to the Best Explanation and the Management of Testimony.” Episteme 4(3): 238–251.
Lipton, Peter. 2008a. “CP Laws, Reduction, and Explanatory Pluralism.” in Being Reduced. New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, edited by Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup, pp. 115–125. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211531.001.0001.
Lipton, Peter. 2008b. “Inference to the Best Explanation.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 193–202. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Lipton, Peter. 2009. “Causation and Explanation.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 619–631. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Lipton, Peter. 2011. “Mathematical Understanding.” in Meaning in Mathematics, edited by John C. Polkinghorne, pp. 49–54. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further References

Bird, Alexander. 2007. “Inference to the Only Explanation [on Lipton (2004a)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 424–432.
Cartwright, Nancy. 1999. The Dappled World: A Study in the Boundaries of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
van Fraassen, Bas C. 2002. The Empirical Stance. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007. “The Lovely and the Probable [on Lipton (2004a)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 433–440.
Psillos, Stathis. 2007. “The Fine Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation [on Lipton (2004a)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 441–448.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2001. “Explanation and Confirmation: A Bayesian Critique of Inference to the Best Explanation.” in Explanation. Theoretical Approaches and Applications, edited by Giora Hon and Sam S. Rakover, pp. 61–92. Synthese Library n. 302. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.