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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Induction
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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Medieval Transmission and Humanist Solution to the Scandal of Philosophy
Fordham University, Center for Medieval Studies, December 6, 2016
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Universal Laws and the Case of Cholera
Harvard University, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, November 30, 2015.
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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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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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Analytic Statements and Organic Concepts
Analytic statements have gotten a bad rap. But shorn of unfortunate associations, there is nothing wrong with them.
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The Other Kind of Induction
University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science, October 17, 2014.
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Key to Induction: Distinguish General and Universal
To solve the problem of induction, we should distinguish general statements from universal ones and recognize the fundamental importance of the first.
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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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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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Harriman, The Logical Leap
A review on Amazon, September 2010.
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Myths in the History of Induction
St. John’s University, Philosophy Department, October 2007.
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