Abductive Cognition The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning /

• Main Author: Magnani, Lorenzo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 3
• Subjects: Computer science.; Philosophy of mind.; Artificial intelligence.; System theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Systems Theory, Control.; Computational Intelligence.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Philosophy of Mind.; Complexity.

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 c...

Table of Contents:

• 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.