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- Abductive Reasoning
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence
Examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of multi-agent systems and plan recognition, to develop a dialogue model of explanation. Cases of causal explanations in law are analyzed using abductive reasoning, and all the components are finally brought together to build a new account of abductive reasoning.
By clarifying the notion of abduction as a common and significant type of reasoning in everyday argumentation, Abductive Reasoning will be useful to scholars and students in many fields, including argumentation, computing and artificial intelligence, psychology and cognitive science, law, philosophy, linguistics, and speech communication and rhetoric.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xvi
- 2. A Dialogue Model of Explanation
- pp. 51-96
- 3. A Procedural Model of Rationality
- pp. 97-121
- 4. Defeasible Modus Ponens Arguments
- pp. 122-157
- 5. Abductive Causal Reasoning
- pp. 158-205
- 6. Query-Driven Abductive Reasoning
- pp. 206-242
- 7. Unsolved Problems of Abduction
- pp. 243-276
- References
- pp. 283-294
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817387617
Related ISBN(s)
9780817314415, 9780817357825
MARC Record
OCLC
879576359
Pages
319
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2005