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An Aristotelian Account of Induction

Creating Something from Nothing

by (author) Louis F. Groarke

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2009
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773535961
    Publish Date
    Dec 2009
    List Price
    $40.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773535954
    Publish Date
    Dec 2009
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773575769
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
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    $110.00

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In An Aristotelian Account of Induction Groarke discusses the intellectual process through which we access the "first principles" of human thought - the most basic concepts, the laws of logic, the universal claims of science and metaphysics, and the deepest moral truths. Following Aristotle and others, Groarke situates the first stirrings of human understanding in a creative capacity for discernment that precedes knowledge, even logic. Relying on a new historical study of philosophical theories of inductive reasoning from Aristotle to the twenty-first century, Groarke explains how Aristotle offers a viable solution to the so-called problem of induction, while offering new contributions to contemporary accounts of reasoning and argument and challenging the conventional wisdom about induction.

About the author

Louis F. Groarke is full professor in the philosophy department of St Francis Xavier University and author of An Aristotelian Account of Induction and The Good Rebel.

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