The Logic of Reliable Inquiry

Name: The Logic of Reliable Inquiry
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Kevin T. Kelly(Author)

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Published on 4. January 1996

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Intro
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Reliable Inquiry
1. Background Assumptions
2. Methods And Data Streams
3. Data Protocols
4. Truth And Global Underdetermination
5. The Philosophy Of Global Underdetermination
6. The Philosophy Of Local Underdetermination
7. Scientific Realism, Probability, And Subjunctives
8. The Logic Of Reliable Inquiry
3. The Demons Of Passive Observation
1. Introduction
2. Decidability With A Deadline
3. Decidability, Verifiability, And Refutability With Certainty
4. Verification, Refutation, And Decision In The Limit
5. Decision With N Mind Changes
6. Gradual Verification, Refutation, And Decision
7. Optimal Background Assumptions
8. Exercises
4. Topology And Ideal Hypothesis Assessment
1. Introduction
2. Basic Topological Concepts
3. The Baire Space
4. Restricted Topological Spaces
5. A Characterization Of Bounded Sample Decidability
6. Characterizations Of Certain Assessment
7. Characterizations Of Limiting Assessment
8. Efficient Data Use
9. A Characterization Of N-Mind-Change Decidability
10. A Demon-Oriented Characterization Of N-Mind-Change Decidability
11. Characterizations Of Gradual Assessment
12. The Levels Of Underdetermination
13. Exercises
5. Reducibility And The Game Of Science
1. Introduction
2. Ideal Inductive Methods As Continuous Operators On The Baire Space
3. Assessment As Reduction
4. Ideal Transcendental Deductions As Cnt-Completeness Theorems
5. Inductive Demons As Continuous Counterreductions
6. Science As A Limiting Game
7. Exercises
6. The Demons Of Computability
1. Introduction
2. Church Meets Hume
3. Programs As Reliable Methods
4. The Arithmetical Hierarchy
5. Uncomputability And Diagonalization
6. The Demons Of Uncomputability
7. Some Disanalogies
8. Exercises
7. Computers In Search Of The Truth
1. Ideal Epistemology And Computability
2. Computation As Internalized Inductive Inquiry
3. The Arithmetical Hierarchy Over The Baire Space
4. Universal Relations And Hierarchy Theorems
5. Characterization Theorems
6. Data-Minimal Computable Methods
7. The Empirical Irony Of Cognitive Science
8. The Computable Assessment Of Uncomputable Theories
9. Ideal Norms And Computational Disasters
10. Computable Inquiry
11. Exercises
8. So Much Time, Such Little Brains
1. Introduction
2. Finite State Automata
3. Regular Sets
4. Scientific Automata
5. Scientific Automata And Certainty
6. Scientific Automata In The Limit
7. Limiting Regular Expression
8. ?-Expression
9. The Inductive Power Of Indeterminism
10. Primitive Recursion
11. The Empirical Irony Of Cognitive Science Revisited
12. Exercises
9. The Logic Of Ideal Discovery
1. Introduction
2. Basic Definitions
3. Assessment As Discovery
4. Conjectures And Refutations
5. A Complete Architecture For Discovery
6. Data-Minimal Limiting Discovery
7. Discovery With Bounded Mind Changes
8. A Characterization Of Almost Stable Identification In The Limit
9. Unstable Identification In The Limit
10. Gradual Identification
11. Exercises
10. Computerized Discovery
1. Introduction
2. Computable Hypothesis Enumerations
3. Characterization
4. Function Identification
5. Cognitive Science Revisited
6. Exercises
11. Prediction
1. Introduction
2. Ideal Extrapolation
3. Computable Extrapolation
4. Exercises
12. Inquiry Concerning First-Order Theories
1. Introduction
2. Logical Hypothesis Assessment From Complete, True Data
3. Truth And Underdetermination
4. Quantifier Prefix Complexity
5. An Example
6. Data Complexity
7. Theories And Axiomatizations
8. Theory Discovery
9. Discovery And Vocabulary
10. Exercises
13. Probability And Reliability
1. Introduction
2. Conditionalization
3. Probabilistic Reliability
4. Countable Additivity
5. Probabilistic Reliability Without Countable Additivity
6. Probabilistic Mathematics And Nonprobabilistic Science
7. Probabilistic Theories
8. Conclusion
9. Proofs Of Propositions 13.18 And 13.20
10. Exercises
14. Experiment And Causal Inference
1. Introduction
2. Systems
3. Causation And Manipulation
4. Variable Causation
5. Experimental Methods
6. The Course Of Experimental Inquiry
7. Hypothesis Correctness And Background Knowledge
8. Experimental Reliability
9. Dreaming And The Principle Of Plenitude
10. Weakened Assumptions And Global Underdetermination
11. Exercises
15. Relativism And Reliability
1. Introduction
2. Relativism, Truth, And Interpersonal Agreement
3. Relativistic Reliabilism
4. Functional Vs. Metaphysical Relativism
5. Causal Vs. Semantic Relativism
6. Acts, Scientists, And Worlds-In-Themselves
7. Transcendental Background Knowledge
8. The Course Of Relativistic Inquiry
9. Relativistic Hypothesis Assessment
10. Relativistic Hypothesis Assessment As Nonrelativistic Discovery
11. Relativistic Theory Discovery
12. Whiggish Relativism
13. Exercises
16. Closing Conversation
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