From the rear cover
There are many proposed aims for scientific inquiry - to explain or predict events, to confirm or falsify hypotheses, or to find hypotheses that cohere with our other beliefs in some logical or probabilistic sense. This book is devoted to a different proposal - that the logical structure of the scientist's method should guarantee eventual arrival at the truth, given the scientist's background assumptions. Interest in this methodological property, called "logical reliability", stems from formal learning theory, which draws its insights not from the theory of probability, but from the theory of computability. Kelly first offers an accessible explanation of formal learning theory, then goes on to develop and explore a systematic framework in which various standard learning-theoretic results can be seen as special cases of simpler and more general considerations. Finally, Kelly clarifies the relationship between the resulting framework and other standard issues in the philosophy of science, such as probability, causation, and relativism. Extensively illustrated with figures by the author, The Logic of Reliable Inquiry assumes only introductory knowledge of basic logic and computability theory. It is a major contribution to the literature and will be essential reading for scientists, statiticians, psychologists, linguists, logicians, and philosophers.
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- Title The Logic of Reliable Inquiry
- Author Kevin T. Kelly
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-01-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780195091953 / 0195091957
- Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.3 x 1.38 in (23.55 x 16.00 x 3.51 cm)
- Reading level 1440
- Library of Congress subjects Logic, Symbolic and mathematical, Research - Methodology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94017166
- Dewey Decimal Code 121
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