Local Induction
The local justification of beliefs and hypotheses has recently become a major concern for epistemologists and philosophers of induction. As such, the problem of local justification is not entirely new. Most pragmatists had addressed themselves to it, and so did, to some extent, many classical induct...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1976, 1976
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1976 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acceptance Revisited
- Cognitive Decision Theory
- A Critique of Epistemic Utilities
- Induction, Consensus, and Catastrophe
- Elements of Induction
- On Sequential Inference
- Cognitive Decisions under Partial Information
- Local and Global Induction
- Hume and the Problem of Local Induction
- A Conspectus of the Neo-Classical Theory of Induction
- Inquiries, Problems, and Questions: Remarks on Local Induction
- On Piecemeal Knowledge-Formation
- Confirmation, Explanation, and the Paradoxes of Transitivity
- A Selected Bibliography of Local Induction
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects