Dokument: Meta-inductive Justification of Inductive Generalizations
| Titel: | Meta-inductive Justification of Inductive Generalizations | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=69790 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20250604-111822-2 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Publikationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Texte » Artikel, Aufsatz | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Schurz, Gerhard [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beschreibung: | The account of meta-induction (G. Schurz, Hume’s problem solved: the optimality of meta-induction, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2019) proposes a two-step solution to the problem of induction. Step 1 consists in a mathematical a priori justification of the predictive optimality of meta-induction, upon which step 2 builds a meta-inductive a posteriori justification of object-induction based on its superior track record (Sect. 1). Sterkenburg (Br J Philos Sci, forthcoming. 10.1086/717068/) challenged this account by arguing that meta-induction can only provide a (non-circular) justification of inductive predictions for now and for the next future, but not a justification of inductive generalizations (Sect. 2). This paper develops a meta-inductive method that does provide an a posteriori justification of inductive generalizations, in the form of exchangeability conditions (Sect. 3). In Sect. 4, a limitation of the proposed method is worked out: while the method can justify weakly lawlike generalizations, the justification of strongly lawlike generalizations (claimed to hold for all eternity) requires epistemic principles going beyond meta-induction based on predictive success. | |||||||
| Rechtliche Vermerke: | Originalveröffentlichung:
Schurz, G. (2024). Meta-inductive Justification of Inductive Generalizations. Erkenntnis, 90(5), 2159–2182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00761-9 | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 04.06.2025 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 04.06.2025 |
