Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements.
• Introduction. Object and plan of the book.
• Part One. Some Remarks on Probability.
  • Chapter 1. Chiefly on Statements of Logical Probability.
• Part Two. Hume's Argument For Inductive Scepticism: Identification.
  • Chapter 2. Its Structure and Content.
  • Chapter 3. Its Suppressed Premises.
  • Chapter 4. Its Further Interpretation and Generalization.
• Part Three. Hume's Argument For Inductive Scepticism: Evaluation.
  • Chapter 5. The Falsity of its Sceptical Conclusion.
  • Chapter 6. The Falsity of its Deductivist Premiss.
  • Chapter 7. The Truth and Importance of Its Fallibilist Consequence.
  • Chapter 8. Our Historical Debts to Hume's Argument for Scepticism.
  • Chapter 9. Concluding Remarks.
• Appendix.