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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History of philosophy of science
History of philosophy of science
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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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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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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The Other Kind of Induction
University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science, October 17, 2014.
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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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Myths in the History of Induction
New York University, History of Science Lecture Series, December 4, 2013.
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Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science
In this seminar, we examine the shift from a Newtonian and Baconian outlook on science to a statistically oriented one.
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The History of Scientific Methods, Pythagoras to Popper
In this course, we examine centuries of disagreements over what constitutes valid scientific method.
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Bacon’s Idols & Harvey’s Eggs
HOPOS Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June, 2010.
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Myths in the History of Induction
St. John’s University, Philosophy Department, October 2007.
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