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1	An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic more books like this by Ian Hacking add to wishlist This is an introductory textbook on probability and induction written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science. The book has been designed to offer maximal accessibility to the widest range of students (not only those majoring in philosophy) and assumes no formal training in elementary symbolic logic. It offers a comprehensive course ... see all copies from £13.61! new only from £20.04!
2	Critical Reasoning more books like this by Jerry Cederblom, David Paulsen add to wishlist This text aims to help students to understand reasoning in the context of real-world experience and examples. Emphasizing clear explanations and the application of techniques, the text provides basic logic and longer real-life passages such as newspaper editorials and essays. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £60.03!
3	Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach more books like this by Karl Popper add to wishlist see all copies from £10.96! new only from £20.92! \| first editions
4	The New Organon: Francis Bacon more books like this by Francis Bacon, Lisa Jardine (Editor), Michael Silverthorne (Editor) add to wishlist When the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally-based science. ... see all copies from £9.27! new only from £10.51!
5	Symmetry and Its Discontents: Essays on the History of Inductive Probability more books like this by S L Zabell add to wishlist This volume brings together a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics by one of the eminent scholars in these subjects. Written over the last fifteen years, they fall into three broad categories. The first deals with the use of symmetry arguments in inductive probability, in particular, their use in ... see all copies from £7.34! new only from £7.34! \| first editions
6	Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition more books like this by Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam add to wishlist The controversy surrounding these unsolved problems is as relevant to the psychology of cognitive development as it is to the philosophy of science. No serious student of either discipline can afford to misunderstand Goodman's classic argument. see all copies from £11.95! new only from £11.95!
7	Novum Organum more books like this by Francis Bacon add to wishlist This is a new classroom edition of Bacon's great work of 1620, a founding document of empiricism and scientific method. It features an introduction and notes to help the reader. see all copies from £8.63! new only from £22.28!
8	Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground: An Essay in Naturalistic Epistemology more books like this by Hilary Kornblith add to wishlist Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that address both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world. Kornblith begins by developing an account of natural kinds that has its ... see all copies from £10.69! new only from £10.69! \| first editions
9	Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of Induction more books like this by Ellen M Markman add to wishlist In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of language acquisition and proposes a new notion of how children acquire categories. see all copies from £8.05! new only from £13.25! \| first editions
10	Choice and Chance: An Introduction to Inductive Logic more books like this by Brian Skyrms add to wishlist This text surveys a number of issues in inductive logic, setting the stage for more advanced discussion. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £39.21! \| first editions
11 view cover	Inductive Logic Programming more books like this by Saso Dzeroski (Editor), Peter A Flach (Editor) add to wishlist This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP-99, held in Bled, Slovenia, in June 1999.The 24 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Also included are abstracts of three invited contributions. The papers address all current issues ... see all copies from £24.01! new only from £27.61!
12 view cover	Practical Induction more books like this by Elijah Millgram add to wishlist Elijah Millgram, a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, argues that practical reasoning is not just a matter of determining how to get what you want, but of working out what to want in the first place. He takes aim at instrumentalism, a view predominant among philosophers today, which holds that the goals of practical reasoning are ... see all copies from £6.52! new only from £6.64! \| first editions
13	Reasoning from Evidence: Inductive Logic more books like this by William Gustason add to wishlist see all copies from £12.22! new only from £14.86! \| first editions
14 view cover	Inductive Reasoning: Experimental, Developmental, and Computational Approaches more books like this by Aidan Feeney (Editor), Evan Heit (Editor) add to wishlist Without inductive reasoning, we couldn't generalize from one instance to another, derive scientific hypotheses, or predict that the sun will rise again tomorrow morning. Despite the widespread nature of inductive reasoning, books on this topic are rare. Indeed, this is the first book on the psychology of inductive reasoning in twenty years. The ... see all copies from £12.67! new only from £17.17!
15 view cover	Nomic Probability and the Foundations of Induction more books like this by John L Pollock add to wishlist This book deals with the subject of probabilistic reasoning. Professor Pollock attempts to make general philosophical sense of objective probabilities and he explores their relationship to the problem of induction. He argues that probability is fundamental not only to physical science, but to induction, epistemology, the philosophy of science and ... see all copies from £8.84! new only from £34.56! \| first editions
16	Induction, Probability, and Skepticism more books like this by D P Chattopadhyaya add to wishlist see all copies from £12.38! new only from £12.38! \| first editions
17 view cover	Reason & Prediction more books like this by Simon Blackburn add to wishlist 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. The experience of each individual is limited and fragmentary, yet the ... see all copies from £15.17! new only from £16.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief more books like this by Colin Howson add to wishlist Colin Howson offers a solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction. In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. No matter how many experimental tests a hypothesis passes, nothing can be legitimately ... see all copies from £24.62! new only from £24.62!
19 view cover	The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge more books like this by Karl Popper, Troels Eggers Hansen (Editor), Andreas Pickel (Translator) add to wishlist In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie - The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge - as '!a child of crises, above all of !the crisis of physics.' Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy of science, epistemology and twentieth century philosophy ... see all copies from £49.80! new only from £49.80!
20	Chance, Cause, Reason: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Scientific Evidence more books like this by Arthur W Burks add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! signed copies \| first editions
21	Critical Reasoning: Understanding and Criticizing Arguments and Theories more books like this by Jerry Cederblom, David W. Paulsen add to wishlist This book should be of interest to courses in critical reasoning, critical thinking, informal logic and general logic courses. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £65.61! \| first editions
22 view cover	Induction, Acceptance and Rational Belief more books like this by M Swain (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £13.62! new only from £77.03! \| first editions
23	Induction and Justification: An Investigation of Cartesian Procedure in the Philosophy of Knowledge more books like this by Frederick L Will add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £56.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Hegel's Transcendental Induction more books like this by Peter Simpson add to wishlist Hegel's Transcendental Induction challenges the orthodox account of Hegelian phenomenology as a hyper-rationalism, arguing that Hegel's insistence on the primacy of experience in the development of scientific knowledge amounts to a kind of empiricism, or inductive epistemology. While the inductive element does not exclude an emphasis on deductive ... see all copies from £14.21! new only from £14.21!
25 view cover	Thinking about Acting: Logical Foundations for Rational Decision Making more books like this by John L Pollock add to wishlist This book aims to construct a theory of rational decision making for real, resource-bounded, agents. Such decision making must be based on objective probabilities, rather than subjective probabilities, and cannot be done by choosing single actions with maximal expected values. Actions must be chosen as parts of plans, and plans must be evaluated ... see all copies from £30.21! new only from £37.64! \| first editions

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