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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Aristotle
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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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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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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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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Groarke, An Aristotelian Account of Induction
A book review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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