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IVC Yearbook 11/2003

INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION IN THE SCIENCES

Hrsg.: Friedrich Stadler












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Table of Contents

 


A. INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION IN THE SCIENCES


I.

FRIEDRICH STADLER:  Induction and Deduction in the Philosophy of Science: A Critical Account since the Methodenstreit 1
MALACHI HACOHEN:Historicizing Deduction: Scientific Method, Critical Debate, and the Historian 17


II.

THEO A.F. KUIPERS:  Inference to the Best Theory, rather than Inference to the Best Explanation - Kinds of Abduction and Induction 25
ADAM GROBLER:  The Significance of Explanatory Considerations 53


III.

ILKKA NIINILUOTO:  Truth-seeking by Abduction 57
STATHIS PSILLOS:  Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism 83


IV.

JOKE MEHEUS:   Adaptive Logics and the Integration of Induction and Deduction 93
MATTI SINTONEN:  Argument, Inference and Reasoning - Integrating Induction and Deduction 121


V.

WOLFGANG SPOHN:  Laws are Persistent Inductive Schemes 135
ECKEHART KÖHLER:  Physical Intuition as Inductive Support 151


VI.

PETER CLARK:  Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics 169
MICHEL PATY:  Remarks About a "General Science of Reasoning" 185
JEAN-JACQUES SZCZECINIARZ:  Two Questions About the Revival of Frege's Programme 195


VII.

DONALD GILLIES:   Handling Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and the Bayesian Controversy 199
STEPHAN HARTMANN:   Artificial Intelligence and Its Methodological Implications 217


VIII.

HANS ROTT:  Supplying Planks for Neurath's Boat: Can Economists Meet the Demands of the Dynamics of Scientific Theories? 225
NILS-ERIC SAHLIN:  Informational Economy and Creativity 247


IX.

I. GRATTAN-GUINNESS:  The Place of the Notion of Corroboration in Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science 251
LADISLAV KVASZ:  How can a Falsified Theory Remain Corroborated? 263


X.

KARL MILFORD:  Inductivism in 19th Century German Economics 273
DAVID MILLER:  The Uniformity of Nature: What Purpose does it Serve? 293




B. GENERAL PART


REPORT - DOCUMENTATION

SYBILLA NIKOLOW:  Planning, Democratization and Popularization with ISOTYPE, ca. 1945: a Study of Otto Neurath's Pictorial Statistics with the Example of Bilston, England 299


REVIEWS

Paolo Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon & Merrilee H. Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. (Christopher Pincock) 331
C. Wayne Mayhall, On Logical Positivism, Wadsworth Philosophical Topics, Belmont, 2003. (Matthias Neuber) 335
C. Wayne Mayhall, On Carnap, Wadsworth Philosopher Series, Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, Belmont USA, 2002. (Christian Damböck) 338
Jean-Pierre Cometti and Kevin Mulligan, La philosophie autrichienne de Bolzano à Musil. Histoire et actualité, Paris: J. Vrin, 2001. (Anastasios Brenner) 339
Steven Beller (ed.), Rethinking Vienna 1900. Berghahn Books, New York-Oxford 2001. (Kurt Rudolf Fischer) 342
Eckart Menzler-Trott, Gentzens Problem. Mathematische Logik im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland, Birkhäuser: Basel-Boston-Berlin 2001. (Matthias Wille) 343


ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE VIENNA CIRCLE

Activities 2003 347
Preview 2004 350


OBITUARY

Remembering Dick Jeffrey (1926-2002) (Maria Carla Galavotti) 353



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