Inductive Logic

This volume is the number in the 11-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. While there are many examples, there are many examples, and are available in the future. a research field where philosophers and scientists fruitfully and constructively interact. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific thinking, including probability theory and decision theory. Written by a group of students in the world of science, graduate students and students in the history of mathematics , cognitive psychology, for artificial intelligence.

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Introduction (Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartman and John Woods)

Induction before Hume (JR 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 Glymoney)

Goodman and the Demise of Syntactic and Semantic 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)

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