Frank Cabrera (Kansas State University)
In this paper, I consider whether a recent argument by Roche and Sober (2013) shows that Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and Bayesianism are incompatible. According to Roche and Sober, in many cases "explanatoriness is evidentially irrelevant" from the Bayesian perspective. As I argue, even if this claim is granted, it does not follow that IBE is incompatible with Bayesianism. After showing why R&S's argument is not a threat to compatibilism, I conclude with some general remarks about the prospects of a compatibilist view, given that Bayesianism is often construed as a theory of epistemic rationality that is all-encompassing.
