Shifting the Paradigm : Alternative Perspectives on Induction.

Shifting the Paradigm : Alternative Perspectives on Induction.

Induction is the logical process we use to arrive at general claims, scientific laws, definitions, and predictions. This book offers state-of-the-art essays by experts who argue against the prevailing Humean view of inductive reasoning as an unreliable, enumerative argument. They present alternative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Groarke, Louis F.
Other Authors: Biondi, Paolo C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis.
Subjects:
Induction (Logic)
Reasoning.
PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology.
Reasoning
Induktion
Erkenntnistheorie
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Hume's Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific; Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study; Intelligibility; Induction, Science, and Knowledge; Induction in the Socratic Tradition; Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation; The Problem of Example; The Object of Aristotelian Induction:; Formal Cause or Composite Individual? From particular to universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid; Not Induction's Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension and their Metaphysical Suppositions.
  • Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A ReduxNarrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism; Goethe and Intuitive Induction; Lonergan's Solution to the "Problem of Induction"; Induction as a Pragmatic Resource; Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence; Epilogue; Contributors' Biographies; Index.

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