Abstract

This remarkably lucid and original book presents a powerful case for the rationality of induction, a defense beginning with a “nomological-explanatory solution” and concluding with a “theological-explanatory solution.” Foster’s arguments range from his opening defense of the rationality of the methods of inductive and inferential reasoning, that is, the reasoning at the foundation of modern scientific discoveries about the natural world, to his conclusion linking the existence of universal and necessary laws of nature to the existence of a personal creator God as the ultimate source of those laws.