eprintid: 16519 rev_number: 45 eprint_status: archive userid: 602 dir: disk0/00/01/65/19 datestamp: 2009-07-23 11:38:07 lastmod: 2015-07-23 09:37:14 status_changed: 2009-07-23 11:38:05 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 document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/16519/1/16519.pdf