Ebook: Induction and Deduction in the Sciences

The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and justification in the sciences in different contexts and with different objectives.
The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial Intelligence.
They document the second international conference in Vienna on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

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The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and justification in the sciences in different contexts and with different objectives.
The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial Intelligence.
They document the second international conference in Vienna on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

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The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and justification in the sciences in different contexts and with different objectives.
The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial Intelligence.
They document the second international conference in Vienna on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Historicizing Deduction: Scientific Method, Critical Debate, and the Historian....Pages 1-15
Inference to the Best Theory, Rather than Inference to the Best Explanation — Kinds of Abduction and Induction....Pages 17-23
The Significance of Explanatory Considerations....Pages 25-51
Truth-Seeking by Abduction....Pages 53-56
Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism....Pages 57-82
Adaptive Logics and the Integration of Induction and Deduction....Pages 83-91
Argument, Inference and Reasoning — Integrating Induction and Deduction....Pages 93-120
Laws Are Persistent Inductive Schemes....Pages 121-133
Physical Intuition as Inductive Support....Pages 135-150
Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics....Pages 151-167
Remarks about a “General Science of Reasoning”....Pages 169-183
Two Questions about the Revival of Frege’S PROGRAMME....Pages 185-193
Handling Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and the Bayesian Controversy....Pages 195-197
Artificial Intelligence and Its Methodological Implications....Pages 199-216
Supplying Planks For Neurath’s Boat: Can Economists Meet The Demands of The Dynamics of Scientific Theories?....Pages 217-223
Informational Economy and Creativity....Pages 225-245
The Place of The Notion of Corroboration in Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science....Pages 247-249
How can A Falsified Theory Remain Corroborated?....Pages 251-262
Inductivism in 19TH Century German Economics....Pages 263-271
The Uniformity of Nature: What Purpose Does It Serve?....Pages 273-291
Planning, Democratization and Popularization with Isotype, CA. 1945: a Study of Otto Neurath’s Pictorial Statistics with the Example of Bilston, England....Pages 293-297
Reviews....Pages 299-329
Activities 2003....Pages 331-346
Preview 2004....Pages 347-350
Remembering Dick Jeffrey (1926 – 2002)....Pages 350-351
Back Matter....Pages 353-354
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