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Structural Reliabilism: Inductive Logic as a Theory of Justification

By Paweł Kawalec

Book information

Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Year
2003
ISBN
978-94-010-3955-0, 978-94-010-0259-2
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-0259-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1719645 bytes)
Series
Trends in Logic 16
Pages
203\203
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
general; Philosophy of ScienceLogic; Epistemology; Statistics

Description

Kawalec's monograph is a novel defence of the programme of inductive logic, developed initially by Rudolf Carnap in the 1950s and Jaakko Hintikka in the 1960s. It revives inductive logic by bringing out the underlying epistemology. The main strength of the work is its link between inductive logic and contemporary discussions of epistemology. Through this perspective the author succeeds to shed new light on the significance of inductive logic. The resulting structural reliabilist theory propounds the view that justification supervenes on syntactic and semantic properties of sentences as justification-bearers. The claim is made that this sets up a genuine alternative to the prevailing theories of justification. Kawalec substantiates this claim by confronting structural reliabilism with a number of epistemological problems. Kawalec writes in a clear manner, makes his theses and arguments explicit, and gives ample bibliographical references.

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