Abduction, Reason and Science: Processes of Discovery and Explanation

ISBN-13: 9781461346371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 205 str.

L. Magnani

Opis

This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical expert systems. It lays out a useful general framework for discussion of a variety of kinds of abduction. It develops important ideas about aspects of abductive reasoning that have been relatively neglected in cognitive science, including the use of visual and temporal representations and the role of abduction in the withdrawal of hypotheses.

Spis treści

1. Hypothesis Generation. 2. Theoretical Abduction. 3. Manipulative abduction. 4. Diagnostic Reasoning. 5. Visual, Temporal Abduction. 6. Governing inconsistencies. 7. Hypothesis Withdrawal in Science. References. Author Index. Subject Index.