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The Problem of Induction and Metaphysical Assumptions Concerning the Comprehensibility and Knowability of the Universe
Induction metaphysics physics explanation unity physicalism
2008/4/21
Even though evidence underdetermines theory, often in science one theory only is regarded as acceptable in the light of the evidence. This suggests there are additional unacknowledged assumptions whic...
Material Theory of Induction and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism Material induction Norton
2008/4/15
John Norton has advanced a general view of induction---`Material Theory of Induction'---that renders ampliative reasoning in a deep sense local. This paper is a sympathetic appraisal of this view, app...
A simple indeterministic system is displayed and it is urged that we cannot
responsibly infer inductively over it if we presume that the probability calculus is the appropriate logic of induction. T...
History of Science and the Material Theory of Induction:Einstein’s Quanta, Mercury’s Perihelion
the Material Theory of Induction History of Science
2008/4/14
The use of the material theory of induction to vindicate a scientist’s claims of evidential warrant is illustrated with the cases of Einstein’s thermodynamic argument for light quanta of 1905 and his ...
Can Rationalist Abductivism Solve the Problem of Induction?
problem of induction rationalism abductivism
2008/4/10
According to Laurence BonJour, the problem of induction can be solved by recognizing the a priori necessity that inductive conclusions constitute the best explanations of inductive premises. I defend ...
A Mug's Game? Solving the Problem of Induction with Metaphysical Presuppositions
induction metaphysics scientific
2008/4/9
This paper argues that a view of science, expounded and defended elsewhere, solves the problem of induction. The view holds that we need to see science as accepting a hierarchy of metaphysical theses ...
Contrary to formal theories of induction, I argue that there are no universal inductive inference schemas. The inductive inferences of science are grounded in matters of fact that hold only in particu...
My purpose in this chapter is to survey some of the principal approaches to inductive inference in the philosophy of science literature. My first concern will be the general principles that underlie t...
Sherlock Holmes and Probabilistic Induction
Sherlock Holmes probability iverse method symbolic logic
2008/4/1
In this paper, (1) I argue that Sherlock Holmes was a good logician
according to the standard of his day, and (2) I try to show what his method of
reasoning was. Now, (2) is a harder task than (1), ...