Handbook of Abductive Cognition

This Handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of abductive cognition, providing readers with extensive information on the process of reasoning to hypotheses in humans, animals, and in computational machines. It highlights the role of abduction in both th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Magnani, Lorenzo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophy and Abduction
  • Theoretical and Cognitive Issues on Abduction and Scientific Inference
  • The Logic of Hypothetical Reasoning, Abduction, and Models
  • Abduction and Diagnosis
  • Abduction in Mathematics
  • Diagrams, Visual models, and Abduction
  • Abduction in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience
  • Abduction and Computation
  • Abduction and Economics
  • Abduction in Education and Human Sciences
  • Abduction, Ignorance, and Creativity
  • Abduction and Technological Design
  • Adversarial Abduction (or Abduction and Adversariality)