The Art of Abduction

• Main Author: Douven, Igor (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Philosophy: logic; Popular philosophy; Cognitive science; abduction; Bayesianism; cognitive science; computer simulations; formal epistemology; inference to the best explanation; philosophy; rationality; reasoning; skepticism
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A novel defense of abduction, one of the main forms of nondeductive reasoning. With this book, Igor Douven offers the first comprehensive defense of abduction, a form of nondeductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning, which is guided by explanatory considerations, has been under normative pressure sinc...