An Aristotelian Account of Induction: Creating Something from Nothing

Louis F. Groarke

nov 2009 · McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Libro 49 · McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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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.

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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.