Workshop 53: Relative Plausibility and Inference to the Best Explanation in Child Custody Cases
This workshop will articulate an operational model for best interests of the child tasks and objectives, then demonstrate how to organize data into an explanation-based theories of components and the totality of the case. Five explanation-based reasoning models will be presented: (1) The Story Model; (2) Scenario (Anchored Narrative) Theory; (3) Hybrid (Argumentation & Explanation) Theory; (4) Narrative Coherence Theory; and (5) Relative Plausibility and Inference to the Best Explanation.