Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning

摘要: This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of last century, neglected topic in cognition. The book aims increasing knowledge about creative and expert inferences. study these high-levelmethods reasoning is situated crossroads philosophy, logic, epistemology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, animal cognition evolutionary theories; that is, heart science. Philosophers science twentieth century have traditionally distinguished between inferential processes active logic discovery ones justification. Most concluded no exists and, moreover, a rational model impossible. In short, scientific inferences are irrational there to hypotheses. On other hand, some research area intelligence has shown methods for could be found computationally adequate rediscovering or discovering first time empirical theoretical laws theorems.