Overview
- Offers an in-depth logical study on abductive reasoning
- Provides logical foundations and applies logical techniques to key problems in the Philosophy of Science
- Offers the result of interdisciplinary research on abductive reasoning
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 330)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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LOGICAL ROUNDATIONS
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. Divided into three parts on the conceptual framework, the logical foundations, and the applications, this monograph takes the reader for a comprehensive and erudite tour through the taxonomy of abductive reasoning, via the logical workings of abductive inference ending with applications pertinent to scientific explanation, empirical progress, pragmatism and belief revision.
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(Prof. Ilkka Niiniluoto, University of Helsinki, Finland)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Abductive Reasoning
Book Subtitle: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation
Authors: ATOCHA ALISEDA
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3907-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3906-5Published: 22 February 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6993-1Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3907-2Published: 16 February 2006
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 239
Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Artificial Intelligence, Pragmatism