Truth-Seeking by Abduction

• Main Author: Niiniluoto, Ilkka (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 400
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Linguistics.; Mathematical logic.; Logic.; Philosophy and science.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Philosophy of Science.

This book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by Charles S. Peirce, the founder of American pragmatism. It explores the historical and systematic connections of Peirce's original ideas and debates about their interpretations. Abduction is understood in a br...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Peirce on Abduction
• Chapter 2. Analysis and Synthesis
• Chapter 3. Abduction and Logic
• Chapter 4. Inverse Problems
• Chapter 5. Abduction as Discovery and Pursuit
• Chapter 6. Abduction and Confirmation
• Chapter 7. Inference to the Best Explanation
• Chapter 8. Abduction and Truthlikeness
• Chapter 9. Abduction and Scientific Realism
• Bibliography
• Index.