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Scientific Realism vs. Anti-Realism: Toward a Common Ground
Hanti Lin
The debate between scientific realism and anti-realism remains at a stalemate, making reconciliation seem hopeless. Yet, important work remains: exploring a common ground, even if…
Unified Inductive Logic: From Formal Learning to Statistical Inference to Supervised Learning
Hanti Lin
While the traditional conception of inductive logic is Carnapian, I develop a Peircean alternative and use it to unify formal learning theory, statistics, and a significant part of…
Convergence to the Truth
Hanti Lin
This article reviews and develops an epistemological tradition in the philosophy of science, known as convergentism, which holds that inference methods should be assessed based on…
The Logic of Counterfactuals and the Epistemology of Causal Inference
Hanti Lin
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized an epistemology of causal inference based on the Rubin causal model (Rubin 1974), which merits broader attention in philosophy. This mo…