Induction Without the Uniformity Principle
Not all conceptions of induction rely on a uniformity principle. The Socratic, Aristotelian and Baconian didn’t.
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Not all conceptions of induction rely on a uniformity principle. The Socratic, Aristotelian and Baconian didn’t.
ReadDavid Hume didn’t think he had anything important to say about induction. That’s just one myth in the history of induction.
ReadMill’s project was not to promote induction but to replace it with his own Hypothetical and Deductive Methods.
ReadAn article, co-authored with Steffen Ducheyne, in which I trace the sources for John Stuart Mill’s views on induction.
ReadMcCaskey here seeks to recover a lost conception of induction, one whose leading theoreticians were William Whewell, Francis Bacon, Socrates, and Aristotle.
ReadFirst ever collated Latin edition and English translation of Jacopo Zabarella on method and regressus.
ReadIn this course, we examine centuries of disagreements over what constitutes valid scientific method.
ReadPrior Analytics II 23 is not really about induction by complete enumeration, as all commentators have thought.
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