Reviving Material Theories of Induction
John D. Norton says philosophers have been led astray for thousands of years by their attempt to treat induction formally.
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Publications
Ockham on Induction
Summa Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica,
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Induction in the Renaissance
During the Renaissance, an older understanding of induction, one prevalent in antiquity, was rediscovered and adopted.
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Sgarbi, The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism
A book review in HOPOS, Spring 2015.
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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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Regula Socratis: The Rediscovery of Ancient Induction in Early Modern England
My dissertation. A account of how philosophical induction was conceived in the ancient world and how that conception was later rediscovered by, especially, Francis Bacon.
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McKnight, The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon’s Thought
A book review in Technology and Culture 48, July 2007.
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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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Matthews, Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon
A book review in Technology and Culture 50, July 2009.
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Groarke, An Aristotelian Account of Induction
A book review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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Snyder, Reforming Philosophy
A book review in The Objective Standard, Summer 2008.
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Harriman, The Logical Leap
A review on Amazon, September 2010.
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