Justifying induction mathematically: Strategies and functions

Logique Et Analyse 51 (203):263 (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

If the total state of the universe is encodable by a real number, Hardin and Taylor have proved that there is a solution to one version of the problem of induction, or at least a solution to a closely related epistemological problem. Is this philosophical application of the Hardin-Taylor result modest enough? The paper advances grounds for doubt. [A longer and more detailed sequel to this paper, 'Proving Induction', was published in the Australasian Journal of Logic in 2011.]

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Meta-Induction and Social Epistemology: Computer Simulations of Prediction Games.Gerhard Schurz - 2009 - Episteme 6 (2):200-220.
On probabilism and induction.John Hosack - 1991 - Topoi 10 (2):227-229.
The Meta‐inductivist’s Winning Strategy in the Prediction Game: A New Approach to Hume’s Problem.Gerhard Schurz - 2008 - Philosophy of Science 75 (3):278-305.
The rationality of induction.David Charles Stove - 1986 - Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Local, general and universal prediction strategies: A game-theoretical approach to the problem of induction.Gerhard Schurz - unknown
On justifying induction.P. F. Strawson - 1958 - Philosophical Studies 9 (1-2):20 - 21.
The uniformity of nature.Wesley C. Salmon - 1953 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 14 (1):39-48.
The problem of justifying induction.Morris Lazerowitz - 1970 - In Charles Hanly & Morris Lazerowitz (eds.), Psychoanalysis and philosophy. New York,: International Universities Press. pp. 210.
The motivated use and neglect of base rates.Eric Luis Uhlmann, Victoria L. Brescoll & David Pizarro - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (3):284-285.
Inference, practice and theory.F. John Clendinnen - 1977 - Synthese 34 (1):89 - 132.
Belief system foundations of backward induction.Antonio Quesada - 2002 - Theory and Decision 53 (4):393-403.
A logical introduction to proof.Daniel W. Cunningham - 2012 - New York: Springer.
The Resolution of Hume’s Problem, and New Russellian Antinomies of Induction, Determinism, Relativism, and Skepticism.Gerard T. Ferrari - 1986 - Philosophy Research Archives 12:471-517.
Elementary realizability.Zlatan Damnjanovic - 1997 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 26 (3):311-339.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-12-29

Downloads
166 (#115,960)

6 months
50 (#87,975)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

A. C. Paseau
University of Oxford

Citations of this work

Non-deductive justification in mathematics.A. C. Paseau - 2023 - Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice.

Add more citations

References found in this work

[Omnibus Review].Kenneth Kunen - 1969 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 34 (3):515-516.
A proof of induction?Alexander George - 2007 - Philosophers' Imprint 7:1-5.

Add more references