This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition. It aims at incre
This Handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of abductive cognition, providing readers with extensive information
This book gathers together novel essays on the state-of-the-art research into the logic and practice of abduction. In many ways, abduction has become establishe
This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical
This book employs a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to underline the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition. Its main focus is on the know