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

Eckhart Arnold

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

Author: Eckhart Arnold
University of Stuttgart, SimTech-Cluster
Eckhart.Arnold@philo.uni-stuttgart.de

Date: February, 22nd 2010

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.

Bibliographical information

@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                      = {http://www.eckhartarnold.de/papers/2009_Induktionsproblem/
                              Induktionsproblem_Preprint.pdf}
}

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