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Hume's Problem Solved: The Optimality of Meta-Induction - Hardback NEW Schurz, G
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- Subjects
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 400
- Size
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 centimetres
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- ISBN
- 9780262039727
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Hume's Problem Solved: the Optimality of Meta-Induction
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- MIT Press LTD
- Topic
- Popular Philosophy
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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A new approach to Hume's problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction. Hume's problem of justifying induction has been among epistemology's greatest challenges for centuries. In this book, Gerhard Schurz proposes a new approach to Hume's problem. Acknowledging the force of Hume's arguments against the possibility of a noncircular justification of the reliability of induction, Schurz demonstrates instead the possibility of a noncircular justification of the optimality of induction, or, more precisely, of meta-induction (the application of induction to competing prediction models). Drawing on discoveries in computational learning theory, Schurz demonstrates that a regret-based learning strategy, attractivity-weighted meta-induction, is predictively optimal in all possible worlds among all prediction methods accessible to the epistemic agent. Moreover, the a priori justification of meta-induction generates a noncircular a posteriori justification of object induction. Taken together, these two results provide a noncircular solution to Hume's problem. Schurz discusses the philosophical debate on the problem of induction, addressing all major attempts at a solution to Hume's problem and describing their shortcomings; presents a series of theorems, accompanied by a description of computer simulations illustrating the content of these theorems (with proofs presented in a mathematical appendix); and defends, refines, and applies core insights regarding the optimality of meta-induction, explaining applications in neighboring disciplines including forecasting sciences, cognitive science, social epistemology, and generalized evolution theory. Finally, Schurz generalizes the method of optimality-based justification to a new strategy of justification in epistemology, arguing that optimality justifications can avoid the problems of justificatory circularity and regress.
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MIT Press LTD
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9780262039727
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Hume's Problem Solved: the Optimality of Meta-Induction
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Hardcover
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English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2019
Number of Pages
400 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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