Can the Best-Alternative-Justification solve Hume's Problem?
On the Limits of a Promising Approach

Eckhart Arnold


Can the Best-Alternative-Justification solve Hume's Problem?
On the Limits of a Promising Approach



Author: Eckhart Arnold
University of Bayreuth, Philosophy Economics

Date: February, 22nd 2010

published in: Philosophy of Science 2010, Vol. 77, No 4, pp. 584-593.


Abstract:

In a recent Philosophy of Science article Gerhard Schurz proposes meta-inductivistic prediction strategies as a new approach to Hume's Problem (Schurz 2008). This comment examines the limitations of Schurz's approach. It can be proven that the meta-inductivist approach does not work any more if the meta-inductivists have to face an infinite number of alternative predictors. With this limitation it remains doubtful whether the meta-inductivist can provide a full solution to the problem of induction.


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Citing:

Eckhart Arnold: Can the Best-Alternative-Justification solve Hume's Problem? (On the Limits of a Promising Approach), in: Philosophy of Science 2010, 584-593, DOI: 10.1086/656010.


BibTeX record:

@Article{Arnold2010,
Title = {Can the Best-Alternative-Justification solve Hume's Problem?
(On the Limits of a Promising Approach)},
Author = {Eckhart Arnold},
Journal = {Philosophy of Science},
Year = {2010},
Month = {October},
Number = {4},
Pages = {584-593},
Volume = {77},
Doi = {10.1086/656010},
Url = {https://eckhartarnold.de/papers/2009_Induktionsproblem/
Induktionsproblem.pdf}
}

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