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Inaugural Lecture: The Warrant of Induction


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Mellor, David Hugh 

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This lecture develops and defends an inductive solution to Hume's problem of induction

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This is D. H. Mellor's Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. It may be downloaded from here or streamed from http://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/19261. The lecture was delivered on 21 January 1988 and published as a booklet by Cambridge University Press later that year. It is reprinted as chapter 15 of Matters of Metaphysics, a collection of D. H. Mellor's papers, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991. A PDF file of Matters of Metaphysics exists in this DSpace collection at http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/194180, whence it may be downloaded free of charge.

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Induction

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Cambridge University Press

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