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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Francis Bacon
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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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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McKnight, The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon’s Thought
A book review in Technology and Culture 48, July 2007.
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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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Bacon’s Idols & Harvey’s Eggs
Stevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Letters, September 15, 2010.
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Bacon’s Idols & Harvey’s Eggs
HOPOS Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June, 2010.
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