Truth-Seeking by Abduction. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ilkka Niiniluoto.
• Authors: Niiniluoto, Ilkka
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Peirce on Abduction; 1.1 Classification of Inferences; 1.2 Probabilistic Reasoning; 1.3 Abduction Reconsidered; 1.4 Interpretations of Abduction; 1.5 Some Debates About Abduction; Chapter 2: Analysis and Synthesis; 2.1 The Regressive Method; 2.2 Pappus on Geometrical Analysis; 2.3 Analysis and Abduction; 2.4 Poeś Stories of Ratiocination; 2.5 Poeś Philosophy of Composition; Chapter 3: Abduction and Logic; 3.1 Abduction as a Rule of Inference; 3.2 Structural Rules for Abduction; 3.3 Abduction by Semantic Tableaux; 3.4 The GW Model of Abduction 3.5 Hintikkaś Interrogative Model of InquiryChapter 4: Inverse Problems; 4.1 On Retroduction; 4.2 Inverse Problems in Systems Theory; 4.3 Radonś Theorem and Computerized Tomography; 4.4 Abduction and Biological Evolution; 4.5 Evolutionism in the Humanities; 4.6 Conclusions; Chapter 5: Abduction as Discovery and Pursuit; 5.1 Patterns of Heuristic Reasoning; 5.2 Abduction as Discovery; 5.3 Abduction as Pursuit; Chapter 6: Abduction and Confirmation; 6.1 Inductive and Abductive Confirmation; 6.2 Bayesian Confirmation; 6.3 Explanatory Power and Confirmation; 6.4 The Virtues of Unification Chapter 7: Inference to the Best Explanation7.1 IBE as a Rule of Acceptance; 7.2 Replies to Criticism; Chapter 8: Abduction and Truthlikeness; 8.1 Approximate Explanation; 8.2 Verisimilitude and Legisimilitude; 8.3 Abduction with Truthlikeness; 8.4 From Empirical Success to Truthlikeness; 8.5 Abductive Belief Revision; Chapter 9: Abduction and Scientific Realism; 9.1 Debates on Scientific Realism; 9.2 The No Miracle Argument; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Subjects: 362.88; Philosophy; Abduction; Truth; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Mathematics -- Logic; Philosophy -- Logic; Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Linguistics; Mathematical foundations; Philosophy: logic; Philosophy of science; Genetic epistemology; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Logic; Science_xPhilosophy; Philosophy -- Epistemology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319991574; 9783319991573
• Related ISBNs: 3319991566; 9783319991566
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