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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The History of Induction
David Hume didn’t think he had anything important to say about induction. That’s just one myth in the history of induction.
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Mill Came to Bury Induction, Not to Praise It
Mill’s project was not to promote induction but to replace it with his own Hypothetical and Deductive Methods.
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The Sources of Mill’s View of Ratiocination and Induction
An article, co-authored with Steffen Ducheyne, in which I trace the sources for John Stuart Mill’s views on induction.
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Induction in the Socratic Tradition
McCaskey here seeks to recover a lost conception of induction, one whose leading theoreticians were William Whewell, Francis Bacon, Socrates, and Aristotle.
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Jacopo Zabarella, On Methods and On Regressus
First ever collated Latin edition and English translation of Jacopo Zabarella on method and regressus.
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The History of Scientific Methods, Pythagoras to Popper
In this course, we examine centuries of disagreements over what constitutes valid scientific method.
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Freeing Aristotelian Epagōgē from Prior Analytics II 23
Prior Analytics II 23 is not really about induction by complete enumeration, as all commentators have thought.
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