ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 starts, at a more abstract level, with the question as to why one should think that explanatory considerations are connected to the truth of an explanation. By relying on the notion of truthlikeness introduced by Popper (1963) and, in particular, on recent improvements of Popper's initial construal proposed by Schurz and Weingartner (2010), it is shown precisely how explanatory considerations are connected to expectations regarding the truth-content of the explanations a subject has for her evidence. This, in turn, allows formulating an updated version of J-Explanationism which shows how probabilistic considerations bear on evidential support and, as a result, is able to deliver the right results in the problematic cases examined in Chapter 1.
