Hume's Problem Solved av Gerhard (Director DCLPS Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf) Schurz

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<b>A new approach to Hume''s problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction.</b><p>Hume''s problem of justifying induction has been among epistemology''s greatest challenges for centuries. In this book, Gerhard Schurz proposes a new approach to Hume''s problem. Acknowledging the force of Hume''s arguments against the possibility of a noncircular justification of the reliability of induction, Schurz demonstrates instead the possibility of a noncircular justification of the optimality of induction, or, more precisely, of meta-induction (the application of induction to competing prediction models). Drawing on discoveries in computational learning theory, Schurz demonstrates that a regret-based learning strategy, attractivity-weighted meta-induction, is predictively optimal in all possible worlds among all prediction methods accessible to the epistemic agent. Moreover, the a priori justification of meta-induction generates a noncircular a pos