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  1. The last word on induction?Colin Howson - 1991 - Erkenntnis 34 (1):73 - 82.
    Recent arguments of Watkins, one purporting to show the impossibility of probabilistic induction, and the other to be a solution of the practical problem of induction, are examined and two are shown to generate inconsistencies in his system. The paper ends with some reflections on the Bayesian theory of inductive inference.
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  • Probabilité et support inductif. Sur le théorème de Popper-Miller.Guillaume Rochefort-Maranda - 2004 - Dialogue 43 (3):499-526.
    In 1983, in an open letter to the journal Nature, Karl Popper and David Miller set forth a particularly strong critical argument which sought to demonstrate the impossibility of inductive probability. Since its publication the argument has faced many criticisms and we argue in this article that they do not reach their objectives. We will first reconstruct the demonstration made by Popper and Miller in their initial article and then try to evaluate the main arguments against it. Although it is (...)
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  • Probabilistic support, probabilistic induction and bayesian confirmation theory.Andres Rivadulla - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (2):477-483.
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