Structural Reliabilism Inductive Logic as a Theory of Justification

Kawalec's monograph is a novel defence of the programme of inductive logic, developed initially by Rudolf Carnap in the 1950s and Jaakko Hintikka in the 1960s. It revives inductive logic by bringing out the underlying epistemology. The main strength of th

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TRENDS IN LOGIC Studia Logica Library VOLUME 16 Managing Editor Ryszard Wójcicki, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Editors Daniele Mundici, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Milan, Italy Ewa Orłowska, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland Graham Priest, Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Krister Segerberg, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden Alasdair Urquhart, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada Heinrich Wansing, Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

SCOPE OF THE SERIES

Trends in Logic is a bookseries covering essentially the same area as the journal Studia Logica – that is, contemporary formal logic and its applications and relations to other disciplines. These include artificial intelligence, informatics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of language. However, this list is not exhaustive, moreover, the range of applications, comparisons and sources of inspiration is open and evolves over time.

Volume Editor Ryszard Wójcicki

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

PAWEŁ KAWALEC The Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

STRUCTURAL RELIABILISM Inductive Logic as a Theory of Justification

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ISBN 978-94-010-0259-2 (eBook) ISBN 978-94-010-3955-0 DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0259-2

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