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Author:   Dov M. Gabbay (Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London.) ,  John Woods (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) ,  Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   North-Holland
Volume:   v. 10
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.70cm
Weight:   1.790kg
ISBN:  

9780444529367

ISBN 10:   0444529365
Pages:   800
Publication Date:   05 May 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction (Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartman and John Woods) Induction before Hume (J. R. Milton) Hume and the Problem of Induction (Marc Lange) The Debate between Whewell and Mill on the Nature of Scientific Induction (Malcolm Forster) An Explorer upon Untrodden Ground: Peirce on Abduction (Stathis Psillos) The Modern Epistemic Interpretations of Probability: Logicism and Subjectivism (Maria Carla Galavotti) Popper and Hypothetico-deductivism (Alan Musgrave) Hempel and the Paradoxes of Confirmation (Jan Sprenger) Carnap and the Logic of Induction (Sandy Zabell) The Development of the Hintikka Program (Ilkka Niiniluoto) Hans Reichenbach’s Probability Logic (Frederick Eberhardt and Clark Glymour) Goodman and the Demise of Syntactic and Semantics Models (Robert Schwartz) Development of Subjective Bayesianism (James Joyce) Varieties of Bayesianism (Jonathan Weisberg) Inductive Logic and Empirical Psychology (Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford, Ulrike Hahn and Evan Heit) Inductive Logic and Statistics (Jan-Willem Romeijn) Statistical Learning Theory (Ulrike von Luxburg and Bernhard Schoelkopf) Formal Learning Theory in Context (Daniel Osherson and Scott Weinstein) Mechanizing Induction (Ronald Ortner and Hannes Leitgeb) Index

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Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.

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