A New View on Inductive Practices: Projectibility and Explainability or How to Draw a New Picture of Inductive Practices - Couverture souple

Israel, Rami

 
9783639157109: A New View on Inductive Practices: Projectibility and Explainability or How to Draw a New Picture of Inductive Practices
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ISBN 10 : 3639157109 ISBN 13 : 9783639157109
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

The idea that reason can justify induction was famously criticized by David Hume. Hume concluded that there is no rational justification for inductive inferences and hence, no rational justification for most of our daily beliefs. Many philosophers attempted to solve Hume's problem with no success. Bertrand Russell commented regarding Hume's problem: "[if we cannot justify induction] we have no reason to expect the sun to rise tomorrow, to expect bread to be more nourishing than a stone, or to expect that if we throw ourselves off the roof we shall fall." The New Riddle of Induction was introduced by Nelson Goodman in his book Fact, Fiction and Forecast, published in 1954. Goodman's problem raised some serious doubts about our ability even to describe inductive principles. In this Book Rami Israel is attempting to solve Both Hume's and Goodman's philosophical problems by introducing a new approach to the subject and by drawing a new picture of our inductive practices.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The idea that reason can justify induction was famously criticized by David Hume. Hume concluded that there is no rational justification for inductive inferences and hence, no rational justification for most of our daily beliefs. Many philosophers attempted to solve Hume's problem with no success. Bertrand Russell commented regarding Hume's problem: "[if we cannot justify induction] we have no reason to expect the sun to rise tomorrow, to expect bread to be more nourishing than a stone, or to expect that if we throw ourselves off the roof we shall fall." The New Riddle of Induction was introduced by Nelson Goodman in his book Fact, Fiction and Forecast, published in 1954. Goodman's problem raised some serious doubts about our ability even to describe inductive principles. In this Book Rami Israel is attempting to solve Both Hume's and Goodman's philosophical problems by introducing a new approach to the subject and by drawing a new picture of our inductive practices.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rami Israel is a philosophy professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and at the Open University of Israel

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639157109
ISBN 13 
9783639157109
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
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Personne responsable
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