Summary
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 since the advent of Bayesian approaches to rationality. Douven argues that, although it deviates from Bayesian tenets, abduction is nonetheless rational. Drawing on scientific results, in parti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046701 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262046709 |
| Author: | Igor Douven |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“An excellent snapshot of the state of play in formal approaches to the topic of abduction and is a must-read for anyone interested in the question of how the techniques of formal epistemology can be profitably used in the study of this sometimes maligned form of inference.”
—British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
“Valuable reading for epistemologists and philosophers of science regardless of their (antecedent) interest in abduction…essential reading for anyone interested in abduction—which, Douven argues compellingly, every philosopher and psychologist interested in theorizing should be.”
—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
About The Author
Igor Douven
Igor Douven is CNRS Research Professor at the Sorbonne and the author of The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals.
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