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Reason and prediction / Simon Blackburn.
- Title
- Reason and prediction / Simon Blackburn.
- Author
- Blackburn, Simon, 1944-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BC177 .B5 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 175 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning. Like most of the main questions in epistemology, the classical problem of induction arises from doubts about a mode of inference used to justify some of our most familiar and pervasive beliefs.
- Subject
- Note
- Paperback re-issue.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction; 1. A statement of the problem; 2. The analysis of reason; 3. The logic of increasing confidence; 4. Goodman's paradox; 5. Probability and reasons; 6. The principle of indifference; 7. Successful policies; 8. Objectivity and prediction.
- ISBN
- 9780521108225 (pbk.)
- 0521108225 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 297146994
- SCSB-10869962
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library