Keyword

inductive probability

Description: Inductive probability is the assignment of probabilities to hypotheses or future events based on evidence and prior observations.

Primary topic: Literary, Cultural, Historical Analysis (23%)

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Epistemic Justification

2001 · Richard Swinburne · 274

Fair bets and inductive probabilities

1955 · John G. Kemeny · Journal of Symbolic Logic · 229

A proof of the impossibility of inductive probability

1983 · Karl Popper, David Miller · Nature · 183

An introduction to the philosophy of induction and probability

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 166

Symmetry and its Discontents

2005 · S. L. Zabell · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 156

“Mises Redux” — Redux: Fifteen Arguments Against Finite Frequentism

1997 · Alan Hájek · Springer eBooks · 139

Immodest Inductive Methods

1971 · David Lewis · Philosophy of Science · 135

“Mises redux” — Redux: Fifteen arguments against finite frequentism

1996 · Alan Hájek · Erkenntnis · 95

The Justification of Inductive Rules of Inference

1968 · Wesley C. Salmon · Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics · 85

Responses to inconsistent premisses cannot count as suppression of valid inferences

1991 · Guy Politzer, Martin D.S. Braine · Cognition · 81

Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation

1978 · Theo A. F. Kuipers · Springer eBooks · 59

Analogy and Confirmation Theory

1964 · Mary Hesse · Philosophy of Science · 54

In Defense of the Popper-Miller Argument

1986 · Donald Gillies · Philosophy of Science · 53

The Justification of Induction

2013 · Hilary Putnam · Routledge eBooks · 50

Symmetry and its Discontents: Essays on the History of Inductive Probability

2005 · S. L. Zabell · 48

The Concept of Inductive Probability

2006 · Patrick Maher · Erkenntnis · 40

Measuring Degrees of Confirmation

1995 · G. N. Schlesinger · Analysis · 40

On the Impossibility of Inductive Probability

1985 · MICHAEL REDHEAD · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 39

Hans Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction

1991 · Wesley C. Salmon · Springer eBooks · 37

Comment on the interpretation of inductive probabilities

1973 · Abner Shimony · Journal of Statistical Physics · 37

Hits and misses: Kirby on the selection task

1994 · D.E. Over, J.St.B.T. Evans · Cognition · 36

Statistical Explanations

1974 · James H. Fetzer · Boston studies in the philosophy of science · 36

The impossibility of inductive probability

1984 · RICHARD C. JEFFREY · Nature · 33

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Two types of inductive analogy by similarity

1984 · TheoA.F. Kuipers · Erkenntnis · 33

Cohen on Inductive Probability and the Law of Evidence

1987 · Ferdinand Schoeman · Philosophy of Science · 32

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