Shifting the paradigm : alternative perspectives on induction / edited by Paolo C. Biondi and Louis F. Groarke ; contributors, Paolo C. Biondi [and fifteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biondi, Paolo C., 1964- editor, contributor.

Groarke, Louis, editor.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Volume / Band 55.

Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical Analysis, 2198-2066 ; Volume / Band 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Induction (Logic).

Reasoning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Induction, which involves a leap from the particular to the universal, has always been a puzzling phenomenon for those attempting to investigate the origins of knowledge. Although traditionally accepted as the engine of first principles, the authority of inductive reasoning has been undermined in the modern age by empiricist criticisms that derive notably from Hume, who insisted that induction is an invalid line of reasoning that ends in unreliable future predictions. The present volume challenges this Humean orthodoxy. It begins with a thorough consideration of Hume's original position and continues with a series of state-of-the-art essays that critique the received view while offering positive alternatives. The experts assembled here draw on a perennial historical tradition that stretches as far back as Socrates and extends through such luminaries as Aristotle, Aquinas, Whewell, Goethe, Lonergan, and Rescher. They inquire into the creative moment of intellectual insight that makes induction possible, consider relevant episodes from the history of science, advance scholarly exegeses of historical interpretations of inductive reasoning, and reflect critically on the scientific and logical ramifications of epistemological and metaphysical realism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction / Biondi, Paolo C. / Groarke, Louis F.

Hume's Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific / Loptson, Peter

Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study / Biondi, Paolo C.

Intelligibility / Dougherty, Jude P.

Induction, Science, and Knowledge / Kelly, James

Induction in the Socratic Tradition / McCaskey, John P.

Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation / Novak, Joseph A.

The Problem of Example / Schollmeier, Paul

The Object of Aristotelian Induction: Formal Cause or Composite Individual? / Byrne, Christopher

From Particular to Universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid / Raymond, Dwayne

Not Induction's Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension, and Their Metaphysical Suppositions / Kostelecky, Matthew

Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A Redux / Rasmussen, Douglas B.

Narrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism / McCullough, Ernest John

Goethe and Intuitive Induction / Ziguras, Jakob

Lonergan's Solution to the "Problem of Induction" / Meynell, Hugo

Induction as a Pragmatic Resource / Rescher, Nicholas

Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence / Groarke, Louis F.

Epilogue / Biondi, Paolo C. / Groarke, Louis F.

Contributors' Biographies

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781306935807

1306935806

9783110369113

3110369117

9783110347777

3110347776

OCLC:

882769443