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Truth-seeking by abduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niiniluoto, Ilkka (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Series:Synthese library ; v. 400.
Subjects:
Abduction (Logic)
Table of Contents:
  • Peirce on Abduction
  • Classification of Inferences
  • Probabilistic Reasoning
  • Abduction Reconsidered
  • Interpretations of Abduction
  • Some Debates About Abduction
  • Analysis and Synthesis
  • The Regressive Method
  • Pappus on Geometrical Analysis
  • Analysis and Abduction
  • Poeʼs Stories of Ratiocination
  • Poeʼs Philosophy of Composition
  • Abduction and Logic
  • Abduction as a Rule of Inference
  • Structural Rules for Abduction
  • Abduction by Semantic Tableaux
  • The GW Model of Abduction
  • Hintikkaʼs Interrogative Model of Inquiry
  • Inverse Problems
  • On Retroduction
  • Inverse Problems in Systems Theory
  • Radonʼs Theorem and Computerized Tomography
  • Abduction and Biological Evolution
  • Evolutionism in the Humanities
  • Conclusions
  • Abduction as Discovery and Pursuit
  • Patterns of Heuristic Reasoning
  • Abduction as Discovery
  • Abduction as Pursuit
  • Abduction and Confirmation
  • Inductive and Abductive Confirmation
  • Bayesian Confirmation
  • Explanatory Power and Confirmation
  • The Virtues of Unification
  • Inference to the Best Explanation
  • IBE as a Rule of Acceptance
  • Replies to Criticism
  • Abduction and Truthlikeness
  • Approximate Explanation
  • Verisimilitude and Legisimilitude
  • Abduction with Truthlikeness
  • From Empirical Success to Truthlikeness
  • Abductive Belief Revision
  • Abduction and Scientific Realism
  • Debates on Scientific Realism
  • The No Miracle Argument
  • Bibliography
  • Index.