Can the Best-Alternative-Justification solve Hume's Problem?
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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.
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.
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.
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