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The History of Induction

Mar 12, 2015Jul 13, 2020 John 17500 Views 0 Comments Aristotle, David Hume, Francis Bacon, History of philosophy of science, Induction, John Stuart Mill, Richard Whately, Socrates, Thomas Reid

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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The Sources of Mill’s View of Ratiocination and Induction

Jan 29, 2015Jul 20, 2020 John 5858 Views 0 Comments History of philosophy of science, Induction, John Stuart Mill

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

Apr 22, 2014Jul 13, 2020 John 7548 Views 1 Comment Aristotle, Francis Bacon, History of philosophy of science, Induction, Induction case studies, Socrates, William Whewell

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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Freeing Aristotelian Epagōgē from Prior Analytics II 23

Jan 25, 2012Jul 13, 2020 John 6069 Views 0 Comments Aristotle, Induction

Prior Analytics II 23 is not really about induction by complete enumeration, as all commentators have thought.

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