Inductive Logic, Volume 10Dov M. Gabbay, John Hayden Woods Inductive Logic is number ten in the 11-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. While there are many examples were a science split from philosophy and became autonomous (such as physics with Newton and biology with Darwin), and while there are, perhaps, topics that are of exclusively philosophical interest, inductive logic - as this handbook attests - is a research field where philosophers and scientists fruitfully and constructively interact. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points in Inductive Logic, including probability theory and decision theory. Written by leading researchers in the field, both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools for senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in the history of logic, the history of philosophy, and any discipline, such as mathematics, computer science, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work is a salient consideration.
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Contents
Induction Before Hume | 1 |
Hume and the Problem of Induction | 43 |
The Debate between Whewell and Mill on the Nature of Scientific Induction | 93 |
Peirce on Abduction | 117 |
Logicism and Subjectivism | 153 |
Popper and HypotheticoDeductivism | 205 |
Hempel and the Paradoxes of Confirmation | 235 |
Carnap and the Logic of Inductive Inference | 265 |
Goodman and the Demise of Syntactic and Semantic Models | 391 |
The Development of Subjective Bayesianism | 415 |
Varieties of Bayesianism | 477 |
Inductive Logic and Empirical Psychology | 553 |
Inductive Logic and Statistics | 625 |
Models Concepts and Results | 651 |
Formal Learning Theory in Context | 707 |
Mechanizing Induction | 719 |