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    Induction, Probability, and Skepticism: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics.Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1991 - Albany, NY, USA: State University of New York Press.
    Chattopadhyaya (philosophy, Jadavpur U., Calcutta) examines the epistemological and methodological implications of induction and probability.
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    Induction, Probability, and Causation: Selected Papers of C. D. Broad.Charlie Dunbar Broad - 1968 - Dordrecht,: D. Reidel.
    In his essay on 'Broad on Induction and Probability' (first published in 1959, reprinted in this volume), Professor G. H. von Wright writes: "If Broad's writings on induction have remained less known than some of his other contributions to philosophy . . . , one reason for this is that Broad never has published a book on the subject. It is very much to be hoped that, for the benefit of future students, Broad's chief papers on induction and probability will (...)
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  3. Explication of Inductive Probability.Patrick Maher - 2010 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 39 (6):593 - 616.
    Inductive probability is the logical concept of probability in ordinary language. It is vague but it can be explicated by defining a clear and precise concept that can serve some of the same purposes. This paper presents a general method for doing such an explication and then a particular explication due to Carnap. Common criticisms of Carnap's inductive logic are examined; it is shown that most of them are spurious and the others are not fundamental.
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    Inductive Probability.L. E. Palmieri - 1968 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (1):151-152.
  5. (1 other version)Induction, Probability, and Bayesian Epistemology.Roberto Festa - 2003 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 80:251-284.
     
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    Inductive Probability.Wesley C. Salmon - 1963 - Philosophical Review 72 (3):392.
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    Inductive probability.John Tucker - 1961 - Philosophical Books 2 (4):5-7.
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    Inductive Probability.John Patrick Day - 1961 - New York, NY, USA: Humanities Press.
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    Inductive Probability.Milton Fisk - 1961 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 11:207-216.
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    Statistical and inductive probabilities.Hugues Leblanc - 1962 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.
    This evenhanded treatment addresses the decades-old dispute among probability theorists, asserting that both statistical and inductive probabilities may be treated as sentence-theoretic measurements, and that the latter qualify as estimates of the former. Beginning with a survey of the essentials of sentence theory and of set theory, the author examines statistical probabilities, showing that statistical probabilities may be passed on to sentences, and thereby qualify as truth-values. An exploration of inductive probabilities follows, demonstrating their (...)
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  11. The Concept of Inductive Probability.Patrick Maher - 2006 - Erkenntnis 65 (2):185-206.
    The word ‘probability’ in ordinary language has two different senses, here called inductive and physical probability. This paper examines the concept of inductive probability. Attempts to express this concept in other words are shown to be either incorrect or else trivial. In particular, inductive probability is not the same as degree of belief. It is argued that inductive probabilities exist; subjectivist arguments to the contrary are rebutted. Finally, it is argued that inductive probability is (...)
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    Inductive Probability and Scientific Rationality.Andrés Rivadulla Rodríguez - 1988 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 4 (1):217-225.
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    Foundations and Applications of Inductive Probability.Roger D. Rosenkrantz - 1981 - Ridgeview Press.
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    Induction, Probability and Skepticism. [REVIEW]James K. Swindler - 1992 - Review of Metaphysics 46 (2):394-396.
    Pyrrho of Elis followed Alexander into the Indus Valley where he contracted the skepticism which has ever since goaded Western thought. In this masterful study of the limits of human knowledge, D. P. Chattopadhyaya, one of India's brightest philosophical lights, revitalizes the westward flow of skepticism by putting our major epistemologies and philosophies of science to the test of his "anthropological rationalism". Often echoing Western pragmatists as well as Indians like Nägärjuna and Samkara, he sustains fallibilism, "localized holism", truth as (...)
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    Induction, Probability, and Causation. [REVIEW]Howard Smokler - 1970 - Journal of Philosophy 67 (2):45-49.
  16. (1 other version)Statistical and inductive probability.Rudolf Carnap - 1955 - In Anthony Eagle, Philosophy of Probability. Routledge.
     
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    Meta-Inductive Probability Aggregation.Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla & Gerhard Schurz - 2023 - Theory and Decision 95 (4):663-689.
    There is a plurality of formal constraints for aggregating probabilities of a group of individuals. Different constraints characterise different families of aggregation rules. In this paper, we focus on the families of linear and geometric opinion pooling rules which consist in linear, respectively, geometric weighted averaging of the individuals’ probabilities. For these families, it is debated which weights exactly are to be chosen. By applying the results of the theory of meta-induction, we want to provide a general rationale, (...)
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    Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation.Robert John Ackermann - 1981 - Philosophical Books 22 (1):44-46.
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    Statistical and Inductive Probabilities[REVIEW]H. T. R. - 1964 - Review of Metaphysics 18 (1):179-179.
    A careful presentation of the foundations of probability theory, containing many valuable innovations. Two accounts of probability are adduced: probability as a measure on the subsets of a probability set, and as a measure on the sentences of a formal language. The book stresses connections between these two accounts; of particular interest is its thesis that statistical probabilities may be regarded as estimates of inductive probabilities.—R. H. T.
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    Cohen on inductive probability and the law of evidence.Ferdinand Schoeman - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (1):76-91.
    L. Jonathan Cohen has written a number of important books and articles in which he argues that mathematical probability provides a poor model of much of what paradigmatically passes for sound reasoning, whether this be in the sciences, in common discourse, or in the law. In his book, The Probable and the Provable, Cohen elaborates six paradoxes faced by advocates of mathematical probability (PM) when treating issues of evidence as they would arise in a court of law. He argues that (...)
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    Induction, Probability, and Confirmation.G. Maxwell & R. M. Anderson - 1977 - Philosophical Review 86 (4):576-584.
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    (1 other version)Carnap's inductive probabilities as a contribution to decision theory.Joachim Hornung - 1980 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 1 (3):325-367.
    Common probability theories only allow the deduction of probabilities by using previously known or presupposed probabilities. They do not, however, allow the derivation of probabilities from observed data alone. The question thus arises as to how probabilities in the empirical sciences, especially in medicine, may be arrived at. Carnap hoped to be able to answer this question byhis theory of inductive probabilities. In the first four sections of the present paper the above mentioned problem (...)
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    Statistical and Inductive Probabilities.Ian Hacking - 1964 - Philosophical Quarterly 14 (56):281-281.
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  24. Statistical and Inductive Probabilities.Hugues Leblanc - 1962 - Studia Logica 15:278-284.
     
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    Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation.Theo A. F. Kuipers - 1978 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Reidel.
    3 in philosophy, and therefore in metaphilosophy, cannot be based on rules that avoid spending time on pseudo-problems. Of course, this implies that, if one succeeds in demonstrating convincingly the pseudo-character of a problem by giving its 'solution', the time spent on it need not be seen as wasted. We conclude this section with a brief statement of the criteria for concept explication as they have been formulated in several places by Carnap, Hempel and Stegmiiller. Hempel's account is still very (...)
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  26. Assuming, ascertaining, and inductive probability.S. Spielman - 1969 - Studies in the Philosophy of Science. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph 7.
  27. Symmetry and its Discontents: Essays on the History of Inductive Probability.Sandy L. Zabell - 2005 - Cambridge University Press.
    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 deriving rules of succession. The second group deals with four outstanding individuals who made lasting contributions to probability and statistics in very different ways: Frank (...)
     
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    On the impossibility of inductive probability.Michael Redhead - 1985 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (2):185-191.
  29. Optimum Inductive Methods: A Study in Inductive Probability, Bayesian Statistics, and Verisimilitude.Roberto Festa - 1993 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.
    According to the Bayesian view, scientific hypotheses must be appraised in terms of their posterior probabilities relative to the available experimental data. Such posterior probabilities are derived from the prior probabilities of the hypotheses by applying Bayes'theorem. One of the most important problems arising within the Bayesian approach to scientific methodology is the choice of prior probabilities. Here this problem is considered in detail w.r.t. two applications of the Bayesian approach: (1) the theory of inductive (...)
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    Inductive Probability.R. H. Stoothoff - 1963 - Philosophical Quarterly 13 (50):87.
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    Induction, Probability and Causation.J. B. Maund - 1972 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 21:309-312.
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    Inductive Probability. [REVIEW]R. W. J. - 1961 - Review of Metaphysics 15 (2):341-341.
    Day argues that the meaning of "probable" is partly evaluative and partly descriptive--to say that a proposition is probable is both to recommend its assertion and to say that a certain procedure shows it to be so. The paradigm of an inductive probability judgment, which is the major concern of the book, is "The fact that all observed A's are B's makes it probable that all A's are B's." Several more complex kinds of probability judgments are distinguished and discussed (...)
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    Induction, Probability, and Causation. [REVIEW]Henry E. Kyburg - 1971 - Philosophical Review 80 (2):244.
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  34. Fair bets and inductive probabilities.John G. Kemeny - 1955 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 20 (3):263-273.
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    Inductive Probability. [REVIEW]Edward D. Simmons - 1962 - Modern Schoolman 39 (4):405-408.
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    Day John Patrick. Inductive probability. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, and The Humanities Press, Inc., New York, 1961, xvi + 336 pp. [REVIEW]Harry Stopes-Roe - 1965 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 30 (3):364-365.
  37. DAY, J. P. - "Inductive Probability". [REVIEW]E. H. Hutten - 1962 - Mind 71:583.
     
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  38. Contentious contents: For inductive probability.Andrew Elby - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1):193-200.
    According to Popper and Miller [1983 and 1987], the part of a hypothesis that transcends the evidence is probablistically countersupported by the evidence. Therefore, inductive support is not probabilistic support. Their argument hinges on imposing the following necessary condition on ‘the part of a hypothesis h that goes beyond the evidence e’: that transcendent part, called k, must share no nontrivial consequences with e. I propose a new condition on k that is incompatible with Popper and Miller's condition. I (...)
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    Probabilistic truthlikeness, content elements, and meta-inductive probability optimization.Gerhard Schurz - 2021 - Synthese 199 (3-4):6009-6037.
    The paper starts with the distinction between conjunction-of-parts accounts and disjunction-of-possibilities accounts to truthlikeness. In Sect. 3, three distinctions between kinds of truthlikeness measures are introduced: comparative versus numeric t-measures, t-measures for qualitative versus quantitative theories, and t-measures for deterministic versus probabilistic truth. These three kinds of truthlikeness are explicated and developed within a version of conjunctive part accounts based on content elements. The focus lies on measures of probabilistic truthlikeness, that are divided into t-measures for statistical probabilities and (...)
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  40. On the alleged impossibility of inductive probability.Ellery Eells - 1988 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39 (1):111-116.
    Popper and Miller argued, in a 1983 paper, that there is no such thing as 'probabilistic inductive support' of hypotheses. They show how to divide a hypothesis into two "parts," where evidence only 'probabilistically supports' the "part" that the evidence 'deductively' implies, and 'probabilistically countersupports' the "rest" of the hypothesis. I argue that by distinguishing between 'support that is purely deductive in nature' and 'support of a deductively implied hypothesis', we can see that their argument fails to establish (in (...)
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    Induction, Probability, and Confirmation. [REVIEW]Teddy Seidenfeld - 1977 - Philosophical Review 86 (4):576-584.
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    Statistical and Inductive Probabilities.Henry E. Kyburg - 1964 - Philosophical Review 73 (2):269.
  43. Resolving a Paradox of Inductive Probability.Kenneth S. Friedman - 1975 - Analysis 35 (6):183 - 185.
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    Statistical and Inductive Probabilities. By Hugues Leblanc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1962. Pp. xii, 148. Trade edition $6.65; text edition $5.00. [REVIEW]R. H. Vincent - 1964 - Dialogue 2 (4):475-480.
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    Statistical and Inductive Probabilities[REVIEW]Isaac Levi - 1963 - Journal of Philosophy 60 (1):21-25.
  46. Contributions to the Theory of Inductive Probability.Richard C. Jeffrey - 1957 - Dissertation, Princeton University
     
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  47. On Popper-Miller's Proof of the Impossibility of Inductive Probability.Andrés Rivadulla Rodriguez - 1987 - Erkenntnis 27 (3):353 - 357.
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    On Popper-Miller's proof of the impossibility of inductive probability.Andr�Srivadulla Rodr�Guez - 1987 - Erkenntnis 27 (3):353-357.
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    "Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 6: Induction, Probability, and Confirmation," ed. Grover Maxwell and Robert M. Anderson, Jr.; and "Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 7: Language, Mind, and Knowledge," ed. Keith Gunderson. [REVIEW]Richard J. Blackwell - 1977 - Modern Schoolman 54 (3):307-308.
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    Statistical and Inductive Probabilities. Hugues Leblanc. [REVIEW]Alex C. Michalos - 1967 - Philosophy of Science 34 (2):195-196.
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