The problem of inductive logic

North-Holland Publishing Company

1968

viii, 417 p.

Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics

Includes bibliography.

Realistic models in probability / H. Freudenthal -- Discussion. Some remarks on the application of probability and the concept of model ; Freudenthal contra methodologos / Y. Bar-Hillel ; Reply / H. Freudenthal -- The justification of inductive rules of inference / W.C. Salmon -- Discussion. One problem about induction / I. Hacking ; Confirmation and rationality / W.C. Kneale ; Non-inductive corroboration / J.W.N. Watkins ; Inductive logic as 'the' guide of life / Y. Bar-Hillel ; On the subjective interpretation of probability / D.W. Miller ; Detaching estimates / H.E. Kyburg ; Reply / W.C. Salmon -- The rule of detachment in inductive logic / H.E. Kyburg, Jr. -- Discussion. On alleged rules of detachment in inductive logic / Y. Bar-Hillel ; Two rules of detachment in inductive logic / P. Suppes ; On rules of detachment and so-called inductive logic / K.R. Popper ; Who needs inductive acceptance rules? / W.C. Salmon ; The possibility of rules of acceptance / J. Hintikka ; On rules of acceptance / R. Carnap ; The acceptance syndrome / Y. Bar-Hillel ; Reply / H.E. Kyburg, Jr. --Probable knowledge / R.C. Jeffrey -- Discussion. Richard Jeffrey on the three prisoners / L. Hurwicz ; Rational changes of belief / P. Suppes ; Reply / R.C. Jeffrey -- Induction by enumeration and induction by elimination / J. Hintikka -- Discussion. Does Hintikka's system represent our actual inductive procedures? / J.R. Lucas ; The concept of constituent-structure / R. Carnap ; Enumeration, elimination, and analogy / M.B. Hesse ; Reply / J. Hintikka -- Consilience of inductions / M.B. Hesse -- Discussion. An argument that confirmation functors for consilience are empirical hypotheses / L.J. Cohen ; A simple model of consilience / J.L. Mackie ; Requirements for consilience / W.C. Kneale ; Reply / M.B. Hesse -- Inductive logic and inductive intuition / R. Carnap -- Discussion. Induction, a motley assembly / M. Bunge ; Hume, Carnap and Popper / J.W.N. Watkins ; Bunge and Watkins on inductive logic / Y. Bar-Hillel ; Theories, experience, and probabilistic intuitions / K.R. Popper ; Conditionalization and information / J. Hintikka ; Reply / R. Carnap -- Changes in the problem of inductive logic / I. Lakatos.

«This book constitutes the second volume of the Proceedings of the 1965 International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science held at Bedford College, Regent's Park, London, from July 11th to 17th 1965. The Colloquium was organised jointly by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the London School of Economics and Political Science, under the auspices of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. ... This second volume of the Proceedings, The Problem of Inductive Logic, contains revised, and at times considerably expanded versions of the seven papers presented in this field at the Colloquium. Some of the participants in the debates were invited to submit discussion notes based on the revised versions of the papers; thus they too differ, sometimes greatly, from the original comments made during the discussions. The authors' replies are in their turn based on these reconstructed discussion notes.»

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