
Inductive Logic
Description
Key Features
- Chapter on the Port Royal contributions to probability theory and decision theory
- Serves as a singular contribution to the intellectual history of the 20th century
- Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights
Readership
Researchers and graduate students in all areas of logic: Historians of logic, cognitive psychologists, computer scientists, AI theorists, theorists of legal reasoning.
Table of Contents
Introduction (Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartman and John Woods)
Induction before Hume (J. R. Milton)
Hume and the Problem of Induction (Marc Lange)
The Debate between Whewell and Mill on the Nature of Scientific Induction (Malcolm Forster)
An Explorer upon Untrodden Ground: Peirce on Abduction (Stathis Psillos)
The Modern Epistemic Interpretations of Probability: Logicism and Subjectivism (Maria Carla Galavotti)
Popper and Hypothetico-deductivism (Alan Musgrave)
Hempel and the Paradoxes of Confirmation (Jan Sprenger)
Carnap and the Logic of Induction (Sandy Zabell)
The Development of the Hintikka Program (Ilkka Niiniluoto)
Hans Reichenbach’s Probability Logic (Frederick Eberhardt and Clark Glymour)
Goodman and the Demise of Syntactic and Semantics Models (Robert Schwartz)
Development of Subjective Bayesianism (James Joyce)
Varieties of Bayesianism (Jonathan Weisberg)
Inductive Logic and Empirical Psychology (Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford, Ulrike Hahn and Evan Heit)
Inductive Logic and Statistics (Jan-Willem Romeijn)
Statistical Learning Theory (Ulrike von Luxburg and Bernhard Schoelkopf)
Formal Learning Theory in Context (Daniel Osherson and Scott Weinstein)
Mechanizing Induction (Ronald Ortner and Hannes Leitgeb)
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 800
- Language: English
- Copyright: © North Holland 2011
- Published: May 5, 2011
- Imprint: North Holland
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444529367
- eBook ISBN: 9780080931692