Probabilistic epistemology holds that probability is an essential ingredient of science and human knowledge at large, and that induction is a necessary constituent of the scientifi c method. Developed in some detail by a number of authors including Patrick Suppes, Richard Jeffrey and Brian Skyrms, this view has been embraced by so many, as to gradually become predominant. While probabilistic epistemology has been growing, awareness of its origins was somehow left behind. Probabilistic epistemology is usually seen as a product of the encounter of logical empiricism with American pragmatism. Without denying the impact of such an encounter, it is argued that the probabilistic approach was already part of the European scenario before the dissolution of logical empiricism in the late 1930s.

Galavotti M.C. (2014). “Probabilistic Epistemology: A European Tradition”. DORDRECHT : Springer [10.1007/978-3-319-01899-7].

“Probabilistic Epistemology: A European Tradition”

GALAVOTTI, MARIA CARLA
2014

Abstract

Probabilistic epistemology holds that probability is an essential ingredient of science and human knowledge at large, and that induction is a necessary constituent of the scientifi c method. Developed in some detail by a number of authors including Patrick Suppes, Richard Jeffrey and Brian Skyrms, this view has been embraced by so many, as to gradually become predominant. While probabilistic epistemology has been growing, awareness of its origins was somehow left behind. Probabilistic epistemology is usually seen as a product of the encounter of logical empiricism with American pragmatism. Without denying the impact of such an encounter, it is argued that the probabilistic approach was already part of the European scenario before the dissolution of logical empiricism in the late 1930s.
2014
European Philosophy of Science -Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese heritage
77
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Galavotti M.C. (2014). “Probabilistic Epistemology: A European Tradition”. DORDRECHT : Springer [10.1007/978-3-319-01899-7].
Galavotti M.C.
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