"So much the worse for Logic". Notes on William Whewell's Methodology

Without any pretense at being an exhaustive overview of William Whewell's thoughts, thie essay focuses on a few fundamental points in which this semi-forgotten author anticipates with grat clarity theses that today are shared by many scholars of scientific metholology. The themes highlighted intend to underline Whewell's how contribution was ahead on its time, and include: the problem of the difficult delimitation between fact and theory; the critique of the traditional idea of inductive inference an the «invention» of retroduction or abduction (as Pierce will call them); s remarkably interesting model of bold conjectures, on which Popper will keenly focus.