HPS 2154 Theories of Confirmation Fall 2024

What is Inductive Inference? Logical Relation or Habit of Mind?

Peter Du Moulin, Elements of Logic. 1624

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. 1651

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. 1741

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Understanding. 1777.

Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy. 1912.

Hans Reichenbach, Experience and Prediction. 1938.

Hilary Kornblith, Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground. 1993.

Paul Boghossian, What is Inference? 2014.