Hume y el estatuto epistémico de las creencias inductivas

Abstract

Hume's philosophy has been traditionally interpreted as radically skeptical about the possibil-ity of giving epistemic justification to our inductive beliefs about the future and the unobserved. In this article I will focus on the inductive beliefs originated in custom and I will point out -against the exegetical tradition - that a rigorous analysis of the characteristics of the psychologi-cal mechanisms involved in the formation of this class of beliefs does allow us to grant them epistemic merit and attribute justification to them under an externalist reading