Inductive inference and its natural ground : an essay in naturalistic epistemology /
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| Author / Creator: | Kornblith, Hilary |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993. |
| Description: | x, 123 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1515020 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Naturalistic Project in Epistemology. 1.1. Epistemology as a Part of Natural Science. 1.2. The Importance of Natural Kinds. 1.3. Our Psychological Constitution
- Pt. I. What Is the World That We May Know It? Ch. 2. Locke and Natural Kinds. 2.1. What Is the Issue? 2.2. Three Views. 2.3. Two Arguments for Conventionalism. 2.4. Two Kinds of Conventionalism? 2.5. The Official View. 2.6. Two Kinds of Skepticism about Real Essence. 2.7. Knowledge of Real Essence. Ch. 3. Real Kinds in Nature. 3.1. Boyd's Account of Natural Kinds: Homeostatic Property Clusters. 3.2. All Their Properties in Common? 3.3. Merely Postponing the Problem? 3.4. Conventionalism Again. 3.5. Kinds in the Special Sciences. 3.6. And Not Token Identical Either
- Pt. II. What Are We That We May Know the World? Ch. 4. Concepts and Kinds. 4.1. Superficial Similarities. 4.2. Same Appearance versus Same Kind. 4.3. Outsides and Insides: Where the Essences Are. 4.4. Psychological Essentialism and Its Innateness: Preliminary Considerations. 4.5. Innate Constraints on Syntax and Innate Constraints on Concepts. 4.6. Directions for Future Research. Ch. 5. Our Native Inferential Tendencies. 5.1. Inferential Error and Perceptual Error. 5.2. The Law of Small Numbers. 5.3. Predictions Based on the Law of Small Numbers. 5.4. The Standards of Statistical Inference. 5.5. Small Numbers and Natural Kinds: what Needs to Be Shown. 5.6. Detection of Covariation: The Bad News. 5.7. Detection of Covariation: The Good News. 5.8. Projecting the Right Features of Natural Kinds.