1. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Debunking material induction" ?
But the authors think that the material theory is not equipped to handle the explanatory problem of induction.. Indeed, he is explicit that his goal is to address “ a particular, brief demonstration of the impossibility of justifying any rule of inductive inference, ” insisting that separate problems of induction must be taken one at a time if there is to be any progress on the matter, and lamenting that “ too often, discussions of the problem bleed off into other problems attached to inductive inference … and then further into a vague foreboding that inductive inference is philosophically problematic in all its aspects ” ( 2014: 674 ).. The authors are sympathetic, and they don ’ t mean to suggest that it is a defect of the material theory that it is not equipped to block the explanatory problem.. The authors ’ ve seen that there are powerful reasons for thinking that there is some sort of explanatory constraint on justification—not to mention that the explanatory constraint that they have developed has clear, empiricist-friendly motivations of the sort that they think will be appealing to Norton and many other philosophers of science.
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2. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Debunking material induction" ?
In this paper, the authors present an explanatory objection to Norton ’ s material theory of induction, as applied to predictive inferences.. According to the objection the authors present, there is an explanatory disconnect between their beliefs about the future and the future facts.
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