Università Roma Tre

Introduction to and critical assessment of philosophical questions concerning inductive reasoning, the problem of induction and alleged solutions to it

D. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. Selby-Bigge (Clarendon) or Norton and Norton (Oxford University Press), book I, part I and part III
N. Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast, Harvard University Press, chs. 1-3
K.R. Popper, Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution to the Problem of Induction, in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, XXV, 95-96, 1-2 (1971), or in Objective Knowledge. An Evolutionary Approach, Oxford University Press
I. Hacking, An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic, Cambridge University Press, chs. 13-22
Additional material may be indicated by the lecturer during the course