Directory of Problem of Induction Resources

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• Confirmation Theory

  http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/confirma.htm
  Article by Michael Huemer defending inductive inference against Hume's argument by appeal to `inference to the best explanation', contrasting his approach to those of Goodman and Hempel.

• Conjectures

  http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach/Conjectures/
  PhD thesis of Peter Flach, investigating the `logic of induction' from philosophical and machine-learning perspectives.

• Mathematical Induction

  http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/logsys/math-ind.htm
  Lecture notes by Peter Suber, explaining the difference between inductive inference and mathematical induction (which is a species of deductive inference).

• The Problem of Induction

  http://dieoff.org/page126.htm
  Essay by Karl Popper, arguing that there is no such thing as inductive inference.

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