Abduction in Context: The Conjectural Dynamics of Scientific Reasoning

By Woosuk Park

Book Overview

1 Introduction.-2 On Classifying Abduction.-3 On Lorenzo Magnani's Manipulative Abduction.-4 Peirce and Magnani on Geometrical Diagrams.-5 Abduction and Estimation in Animals.-6 On Animal Cognition: before and after the Beast-Machine Controversy.-7 How to Learn Abduction from Animals?: From Avicenna to Magnani.-8 From Visual Abduction to Abductive Vision.-9 Misrepresentation in Context [Woosuk Park, (2014), "Misrepresentation in Context", Foundations of Science, 19 (4), 363-374.].-10. A Dilemma for Situation Semanticists.-11 Towards a Caricature Model of Science.-12 Belief Revision Vs. Conceptual Change in Mathematics.-13 Ad hoc Hypothesis Generation as Enthymeme Resolution.-14 Conclusion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319840568
• ISBN13: 9783319840567
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"