David Stove - Definition and Overview

David Charles Stove (1927–1994), was an obscure conservative Australian philosopher of science, who was also widely regarded as a witty essayist in the popular press.

His contributions to the philosophy of science include attempted refutations of David Hume's inductive skepticism, as well as the alleged irrationalism of his disciplinary contemporaries Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend. He also marshalled a positive defense of inductivism in his 1986 work, The Rationality of Induction.

Stove's literary executor, James Franklin, has published a large amount of Stove's work online (here (http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/davidstove.html)), including links to two complete books:

• Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism (http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/4118/dcs/hume/hume.html) (1973)
• Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists (http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/4118/dcs/popper/popper.html) (1982)

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