Lukol Directory: Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of Logic: Problem of Induction

Confirmation Theory Article by Michael Huemer defending inductive inference against Hume's argument by appeal to `inference to the best explanation', contrasting his approach to those of Goodman and Hempel. http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/confirma.htm Presuppositions and the Paradoxes of Confirmation Discussion by Michael Beaney in Disputatio of a paradox of confirmation due to Mark Sainsbury. http://www.disputatio.com/articles/006-3.p... The Problem of Induction Essay by Karl Popper, arguing that there is no such thing as inductive inference. http://dieoff.org/page126.htm Conjectures PhD thesis of Peter Flach, investigating the `logic of induction' from philosophical and machine-learning perspectives. http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach/Conjecture... Mathematical Induction Lecture notes by Peter Suber, explaining the difference between inductive inference and mathematical induction (which is a species of deductive inference). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log... A Constructivist Approach to the Problem of Induction Article by Olaf Diettrich which appeared in Evolution and Cognition in 1995. http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/people/diettrich... Related Topics: Computers: Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning

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