Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Hume’s Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific 11
6. Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study 51
7. Intelligibility 123
8. Induction, Science, and Knowledge 135
9. Induction in the Socratic Tradition 161
10. Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation 193
11. The Problem of Example 231
12. The Object of Aristotelian Induction: Formal Cause or Composite Individual? 251
13. From Particular to Universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid 269
14. Not Induction’s Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension, and Their Metaphysical Suppositions 301
15. Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A Redux 323
16. Narrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism 359
17. Goethe and Intuitive Induction 385
18. Lonergan’s Solution to the “Problem of Induction” 415
19. Induction as a Pragmatic Resource 437
20. Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence 455
21. Epilogue 515
22. Contributors’ Biographies 523
23. Index 527