Induction and Deduction in the Sciences

✍ Scribed by Friedrich Stadler (auth.), Friedrich Stadler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 11
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Supplying Planks For Neurath’s Boat: Can Economists Meet The Demands of The Dynamics of Scientific Theories?....Pages 225-245
Informational Economy and Creativity....Pages 247-249
Adaptive Logics and the Integration of Induction and Deduction....Pages 93-120
Argument, Inference and Reasoning — Integrating Induction and Deduction....Pages 121-133
The Place of The Notion of Corroboration in Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science....Pages 251-262
How can A Falsified Theory Remain Corroborated?....Pages 263-271
Laws Are Persistent Inductive Schemes....Pages 135-150
Physical Intuition as Inductive Support....Pages 151-167
Inductivism in 19 TH Century German Economics....Pages 273-291
Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics....Pages 169-183
Remarks about a “General Science of Reasoning”....Pages 185-193
Two Questions about the Revival of Frege’S PROGRAMME....Pages 195-197
Induction and Deduction in the Philosophy of Science: A Critical Account since the Methodenstreit ....Pages 1-15
Historicizing Deduction: Scientific Method, Critical Debate, and the Historian....Pages 17-23
Inference to the Best Theory, Rather than Inference to the Best Explanation — Kinds of Abduction and Induction....Pages 25-51
The Significance of Explanatory Considerations....Pages 53-56
Handling Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and the Bayesian Controversy....Pages 199-216
Artificial Intelligence and Its Methodological Implications....Pages 217-223
Truth-Seeking by Abduction....Pages 57-82
Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism....Pages 83-91
The Uniformity of Nature: What Purpose Does It Serve?....Pages 293-297
Planning, Democratization and Popularization with Isotype, CA. 1945: a Study of Otto Neurath’s Pictorial Statistics with the Example of Bilston, England....Pages 299-329
Reviews....Pages 331-346
Activities 2003....Pages 347-350
Preview 2004....Pages 350-351
Remembering Dick Jeffrey (1926 – 2002)....Pages 353-354
Back Matter....Pages 355-361

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science; Modern Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Logic