Hume's Problem Solved: The Optimality of Meta-Induction

by Gerhard Schurz

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039729
• ISBN13: 9780262039727
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"