eprintid: 16519
rev_number: 45
eprint_status: archive
userid: 602
dir: disk0/00/01/65/19
datestamp: 2009-07-23 11:38:07
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type: proceedings_section
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Gillies, D.
creators_id: DAGIL40
title: Problem-solving and the problem of induction
ispublished: pub
subjects: 11100
divisions: F58
note: The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com. Paper presented at the Rethinking Popper International Conference, September 10th - 14th 2007
Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.flu.cas.cz/rethinkingpopper/
abstract: In his 1972 book: Objective Knowledge, Popper devotes Chap. 1 to the problem of induction. Elsewhere in the book (in Chaps. 3, 4, 6 and 8), he presents a general schema of problem solving. The aim of this paper is to bring these two strands of thought together. The initial problem (P1) is here the traditional philosophical problem of induction. Popper proposes a tentative solution (TS) to this problem. The paper then proceeds with the problem solving schema by adding error elimination (EE), i.e. criticisms of the tentative solution. These are concerned with computer induction, and with the claim that corroboration is in some sense inductive. This discussion leads in turn to the emergence of a new problem (P2). A suggestion is made about how this new problem might be tackled. The approach involves Neurath's principle, but applied to methods rather than theories.
date: 2009-03
publisher: Springer/ Business Media B.V.
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9338-8_9
vfaculties: VMPS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9338-8_9
isbn_13: 9781402093371
lyricists_name: Gillies, D
lyricists_id: DAGIL40
full_text_status: public
series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
number: 272
place_of_pub: Berlin, Germany/ Ede, The Netherlands
pagerange: 103-115
refereed: TRUE
book_title: Rethinking Popper
editors_name: Parusniková, Z.
editors_name: Cohen, R.S.
citation:        Gillies, D.;      (2009)    Problem-solving and the problem of induction.                     In: Parusniková, Z. and Cohen, R.S., (eds.) Rethinking Popper.  (pp. pp. 103-115).  Springer/ Business Media B.V.: Berlin, Germany/ Ede, The Netherlands.       Green open access   
 
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