Shifting the Paradigm: Alternative Perspectives on Induction

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Shifting the Paradigm

Alternative Perspectives on Induction

Edited by: Paolo C. Biondi and Louis F. Groarke

Volume 55 in the series Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110347777

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About this book

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.

opens up an original perspective
deals with interdisciplinary ramifications
rehabilitates induction as a legitimate cognitive process

Author / Editor information

Paolo C. Biondi, University of Sudbury, Canada; Louis Groarke, Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Paolo C. Biondi and Louis F. Groarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Hume’s Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific Peter Loptson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study Paolo C. Biondi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Intelligibility Jude P. Dougherty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Induction, Science, and Knowledge James Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Induction in the Socratic Tradition John P. McCaskey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation Joseph A. Novak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Problem of Example Paul Schollmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
The Object of Aristotelian Induction: Formal Cause or Composite Individual? Christopher Byrne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
From Particular to Universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid Dwayne Raymond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Not Induction’s Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension, and Their Metaphysical Suppositions Matthew Kostelecky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A Redux Douglas B. Rasmussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Narrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism Ernest John McCullough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Goethe and Intuitive Induction Jakob Ziguras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Lonergan’s Solution to the “Problem of Induction” Hugo Meynell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Induction as a Pragmatic Resource Nicholas Rescher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence Louis F. Groarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Epilogue Paolo C. Biondi and Louis F. Groarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
Contributors’ Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Wissenschaftler, Bibliotheken, Institute
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 536
Keywords: Induction; Aristotle; David Hume

eBook

Published: May 26, 2014
ISBN: 9783110347777

Hardcover

Published: April 14, 2014
ISBN: 9783110340273