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Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research
Analogical arguments are ubiquitous vehicles of knowledge transfer in science and medicine. This paper outlines a Bayesian evidence-amalgamation...
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Is There Anything Like Indian Logic? Anumāna, ‘Inference’ and Inference in the Critique of Jayarāśi Bhaṭṭa
The paper presents an analysis of the anumāna chapter of Jayarāśi’s Tattvôpaplava - siṁha and the nature of his criticism levelled against the anumāna ...
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Inferential Pluralism in Causal Reasoning from Randomized Experiments
Causal pluralism can be defended not only in respect to causal concepts and methodological guidelines, but also at the finer-grained level of causal...
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The Completeness Theorem? So What!
Bolzano reduced inferential validity of the inference (from premise judgements to conclusion judgment) to the holding of logical consequence between...
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Deduction at the Crossroads
I provide a general introduction to the notion at issue in this volume, i.e. deduction, and to some akin notions like inference and reasoning. I also...
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Still for Direct Reference
Michael Devitt argues against direct reference, and in favor of an alternative theory of meaning, in “Against Direct Reference,” “Still against...
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The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach
Metaphysicians of causation have long debated the existence of primitive causal modalities (e.g., powers), with reductionists and realists taking...
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Conditional Inference Trees and Random Forests
This chapter discusses popular non-parametric methods in corpus linguistics: conditional inference trees and conditional random forests. These...
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Bolzano’s Tortoise and a loophole for Achilles
This paper discusses a novel response to two closely related regress arguments from Bolzano’s Theory of Science and Carroll’s What the Tortoise Said...
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Comparative success and empirical progress without approximate truth
This paper argues against a particular version of the inference from the success of a scientific theory to the claim that the theory must be...
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Reliability of mathematical inference
Of all the demands that mathematics imposes on its practitioners, one of the most fundamental is that proofs ought to be correct. It has been common...
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Interpretations of Probability and Bayesian Inference—an Overview
In this article, I first give a short outline of the different interpretations of the concept of probability that emerged in the twentieth century....
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Rules of Explosion and Excluded Middle: Constructing a Unified Single-Succedent Gentzen-Style Framework for Classical, Paradefinite, Paraconsistent, and Paracomplete Logics
A unified and modular falsification-aware single-succedent Gentzen-style framework is introduced for classical, paradefinite, paraconsistent, and...
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Reliability models in cultural phylogenetics
Cultural phylogenetics has made remarkable progress by relying on methods originally developed in biology. But biological and cultural evolution do...
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Inductive Inferences on Galactic Redshift, Understood Materially
A two-fold challenge faces any account of inductive inference. It must provide means to discern which are the good inductive inferences or which...
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Recognizing why vision is inferential
A theoretical pillars of vision science in the information-processing tradition is that perception involves unconscious inference. The classic...
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Pluralism in reasoning: how to legitimate material inferences
Wilfrid Sellars’s suggestion that there are valid material inferences entails that validity is not limited to formal inferences. Because material...
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Structure, Function and Evolution of the Middle Ear of Extant and Extinct Vertebrates: Paleobiological and Phylogenetic Interpretations
The study of the middle ear function is more difficult in extinct than in extant taxa, but a good understanding of middle ear evolution cannot be...
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Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory
We analyse the issue of using prior information in frequentist statistical inference. For that purpose, we scrutinise different kinds of sampling...
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Against methodological continuity and metaphysical knowledge
The main purpose of this paper is to refute the ‘methodological continuity’ argument supporting epistemic realism in metaphysics. This argument aims...