TY  - BOOK
AU  - Magnani,Lorenzo
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning 
T2  - Cognitive Systems Monographs,
SN  - 9783642036316
AV  - Q342 
U1  - 006.3 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Physics
KW  - Computational Intelligence
KW  - Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
KW  - Philosophy of Mind
KW  - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
KW  - Complexity
N1  - Theoretical and Manipulative Abduction -- Non-explanatory and Instrumental Abduction -- Semiotic Brains and Artificial Minds -- Neuro-multimodal Abduction -- Animal Abduction -- Abduction, Affordances, and Cognitive Niches -- Abduction in Human and Logical Agents -- Morphodynamical Abduction
N2  - This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition. The book aims at increasing knowledge about creative and expert inferences. The study of these high-levelmethods of abductive reasoning is situated at the crossroads of philosophy, logic, epistemology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, animal cognition and evolutionary theories; that is, at the heart of cognitive science. Philosophers of science in the twentieth century have traditionally distinguished between the inferential processes active in the logic of discovery and the ones active in the logic of justification. Most have concluded that no logic of creative processes exists and, moreover, that a rational model of discovery is impossible. In short, scientific creative inferences are irrational and there is no “reasoning” to hypotheses. On the other hand, some research in the area of artificial intelligence has shown that methods for discovery could be found that are computationally adequate for rediscovering – or discovering for the first time – empirical or theoretical laws and theorems
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03631-6
ER  -