The Paradox of Induction
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Falsificationism and the paradox of induction
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Another attack on the problem of induction comes from the view that science does not actually operate according to the process of inductive inference. The philosopher Karl Popper argues this in his claim that science proceeds by falsificationism. We would need to examine alternative accounts of the methodology of science in order to be able to respond to this claim in detail. Nonetheless, the prospects for such a "solution" do not appear to be very good. The paradox of induction states a sceptical difficulty inherent in any reasoning from particular observations to general laws. Since all science reasons in this way, whatever the precise methodology of science is, scientific reasoning will always be vulnerable to this species of scepticism.
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Contents of
The Paradox of Induction
1 Prescriptive philosophy of science
2 The problem or paradox of induction
3 Hume and the formulation of the paradox of induction
4 Attempts to solve the paradox of induction
5 The paradox of induction and the claim that probability is all we ought to seek
6 Swinburn and confirmation theory
7 Falsificationism and the paradox of induction
8 Extrapolation and interpolation
9 Occam razor and the paradox of induction
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