Quine's 1946 Lectures on Hume

Pakaluk, Michael

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“…So great is the problem that in his 1946 lectures on Hume, W.V.O. Quine, arguably the most influential philosopher of the 20th century, noted that the “Humean predicament [the problem of induction] is the human predicament.” 10 This is the first hurdle we need to understand and overcome—the limitation of scientific knowledge. The classic example of the problem of induction relates to the discovery of black swans.…”

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The Epistemological (Not Reproducibility) Crisis

Park

2020

Advances in Radiation Oncology

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The current reproducibility crisis is fundamentally a crisis of knowledge, thus in reality it is an epistemological crisis. The current reigning paradigm of null hypothesis testing using a P value of <.05 has made the medical literature prone to be filled with spurious correlations rather than true knowledge. This article brings attention to 3 foundational issues to help navigate the current crisis: The problem of induction, the concept of epistemological access, and the iatrogenics of information. Scientific reasoning is inductive reasoning and the problem of induction highlights the limitations of such knowledge. The concept of epistemological access is introduced to describe the inability of low-level data to extract true findings. This lack of true knowledge brings with it the iatrogenics of information, where having more data are in fact harmful and can lead to patients receiving ineffective treatments.

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The Epistemological (Not Reproducibility) Crisis

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2020

Advances in Radiation Oncology

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“…By contrast to Lewis, Quine had a solid grounding in Hume that went well beyond undergraduate perusal. He gave a lecture course on Hume at Harvard in the mid-1940s, whose content was of such interest that it was recently published (Quine 2003(Quine [1946), and has been the subject of several scholarly papers (Pakaluk 1989, Buickerood 2004. A noteworthy passage in it prefigures a sort of counterfactual theory of causation, even though Lewis's version pre-dates his association with Quine.…”

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The Quinean Roots of Lewis’s Humeanism

Janssen-Lauret¹

2017

The Monist

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Abstract. An odd dissensus between confident metaphysicians and neo-pragmatist antimetaphysicians pervades early twenty-first century analytic philosophy. Each faction is convinced their side has won the day, but both are mistaken about the philosophical legacy of the twentieth century. More historical awareness is needed to overcome the current dissensus. Lewis and his possible-world system are lionised by metaphysicians; Quine's pragmatist scruples about heavy-duty metaphysics inspire anti-metaphysicians. But Lewis developed his system under the influence of his teacher Quine, inheriting from him his empiricism, his physicalism, his meta-ontology, and, I will show in this paper, also his Humeanism. Using published as well as never-before-seen unpublished sources, I will make apparent that both heavy-duty metaphysicians and neo-pragmatist anti-metaphysicians are wrong about the roles Quine and Lewis played in the development of twentieth-century philosophy. The two are much more alike than is commonly supposed, and Quine much more instrumental to the pedigree of current metaphysics.

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“…Fogelin makes much of the connection with Hume, arguing that a commitment to Humean skepticism about induction is fundamental to Quine's attempt to naturalize epistemology. Indeed, he argues that Quine's subtle understanding of Hume's own attempt to naturalize philosophy, as evidenced by "Quine's 1946 Lectures on Hume" (Pakaluk, 1989), was an important influence on Quine's project.…”

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On What Quine Is - A BOOK REVIEW OF The Cambridge Companion to Quine edited by Roger F. Gibson Jr.

Brown¹

2006

Mind, Culture, and Activity

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Quine's 1946 Lectures on Hume

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

The Epistemological (Not Reproducibility) Crisis

The Epistemological (Not Reproducibility) Crisis

The Quinean Roots of Lewis’s Humeanism

On What Quine Is - A BOOK REVIEW OF The Cambridge Companion to Quine edited by Roger F. Gibson Jr.

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