Hume's Problem Induction and the Justification of Belief,9780198250371

Hume's Problem Induction and the Justification of Belief

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ISBN13: 9780198250371
ISBN10: 0198250371
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-25
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. But physical theory routinely predicts the values of observable magnitudes within very small ranges of error. The chance of this sort of predictive success without a true theory suggests that Hume's argument is flawed. However, Colin Howson argues that there is no flaw and examines the implications of this disturbing conclusion; he also offers a solution to one of the central problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction.

Author Biography


Colin Howson is Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(5)
Hume's Argument
6(16)
Reliabilism
22(13)
Realism and the No-Miracles Argument
35(26)
Probabilism
61(33)
Deductivism
94(15)
The Naturalistic Fallacy
109(12)
`A New Species of Logic'
121(47)
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
168(53)
Chance and Probability
221(26)
Finale
239(2)
Coda: `Of Miracles'
241(6)
References 247(10)
Index 257

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