Overview
- Discusses a hybrid concept of abduction as both inference and intuition
- Offers a historical overview of the most important works on abduction
- Presents the author's view on current problems in abductive cognition
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 32)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book offers a novel perspective on abduction. It starts by discussing the major theories of abduction, focusing on the hybrid nature of abduction as both inference and intuition. It reports on the Peircean theory of abduction and discusses the more recent Magnani concept of animal abduction, connecting them to the work of medieval philosophers. Building on Magnani's manipulative abduction, the accompanying classification of abduction, and the hybrid concept of abduction as both inference and intuition, the book examines the problem of visual perception together with the related concepts of misrepresentation and semantic information. It presents the author's views on caricature and the caricature model of science, and then extends the scope of discussion by introducing some standard issues in the philosophy of science. By discussing the concept of ad hoc hypothesis generation as enthymeme resolution, it demonstrates how ubiquitous the problem of abduction is in all the different individual scientific disciplines. This comprehensive text provides philosophers, logicians and cognitive scientists with a historical, unified and authoritative perspective on abduction.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Abduction in Context
Book Subtitle: The Conjectural Dynamics of Scientific Reasoning
Authors: Woosuk Park
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48956-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48955-1Published: 30 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84056-7Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48956-8Published: 23 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 263
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Cognitive Psychology, Logic, Artificial Intelligence