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.
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.
ReadMcCaskey here seeks to recover a lost conception of induction, one whose leading theoreticians were William Whewell, Francis Bacon, Socrates, and Aristotle.
ReadMy dissertation. A account of how philosophical induction was conceived in the ancient world and how that conception was later rediscovered by, especially, Francis Bacon.
ReadA book review in Technology and Culture 48, July 2007.
ReadA book review in Technology and Culture 50, July 2009.
ReadStevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Letters, September 15, 2010.
ReadHOPOS Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June, 2010.
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