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Introduction to Logics of Hypothetical Reasoning, Abduction, and Evidence
This section offers an overview to some formal models for ampliative reasoning found in the philosophy of science and logical literature: adaptive...
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Introduction to Logics of Hypothetical Reasoning, Abduction, and Evidence
This section offers an overview to some formal models for ampliative reasoning found in the philosophy of science and logical literature: adaptive...
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Abductive Reasoning in Clinical Diagnostics
In this chapter, we look at the reasoning process called abduction as it happens in clinical reasoning, specifically, in diagnostics. Abduction is...
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Tracking Abductive Reasoning in the Natural Sciences
The aim of this chapter is to vindicate the use of abductive reasoning in the natural sciences as a practice that makes both discovery and...
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Modeling Hypothetical Reasoning by Formal Logics
In this paper, it is discussed to which extent hypothetical reasoning can be modeled by formal logics. The paper starts by exploring this idea in...
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Abduction in Prognostic Reasoning
One of the most important activities of medicine is the act of prognostication. The success of medical practice depends indeed also on the ability of...
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Abduction, Clinical Reasoning, and Therapeutic Strategies
The debate on the role and possible uses of abduction in the health sciences has mainly concerned diagnosis. Indeed, whereas a range of works have...
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Abductive Reasoning in Clinical Diagnostics
In this chapter, we look at the reasoning process called abduction as it happens in clinical reasoning, specifically, in diagnostics. Abduction is...
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Tracking Abductive Reasoning in the Natural Sciences
The aim of this chapter is to vindicate the use of abductive reasoning in the natural sciences as a practice that makes both discovery and...
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Medical Reasoning and the GW Model of Abduction
Medical reasoning involves diagnosis, but also prognosis, therapy planning, and monitoring. Both are based on hypotheses introduced by means of...
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Abduction in Earth Science Education
Epistemic goals and practices of earth science are distinctive from those of other domains of science, especially experimental sciences such as...
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Darwin’s Ideas as Epitomes of Abductive Reasoning in the Teaching of School Scientific Explanation and Argumentation
In this chapter, it is proposed that science teachers can foster students’ construction of model-based scientific explanations and argumentations...
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Abduction in Prognostic Reasoning
One of the most important activities of medicine is the act of prognostication. The success of medical practice depends indeed also on the ability of...
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Modeling Hypothetical Reasoning by Formal Logics
In this paper, it is discussed to which extent hypothetical reasoning can be modeled by formal logics. The paper starts by exploring this idea in...
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Abduction, Clinical Reasoning, and Therapeutic Strategies
The debate on the role and possible uses of abduction in the health sciences has mainly concerned diagnosis. Indeed, whereas a range of works have...
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Abduction and Truth
Charles S. Peirce distinguished, during his long career between 1865 and 1914, three types of inferences: deduction, induction, and abduction. While...
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Abduction and Semiosis
This chapter presents the concept of abduction in the context of Peircean General Theory of Signs or Semiotics. It introduces the role of abduction,...
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Abduction as Phylogenetic Inference: Epistemological Perspectives in Scientific Practices
Abductive inference constitutes one of the formal models of reasoning that has recently acquired vital importance in the philosophy of science....
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Abduction and Economics
This entry maps the use of ampliative inference or abduction in economics. Abduction does not just integrate numerous economic concepts but has been...
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Medical Reasoning and the GW Model of Abduction
Medical reasoning involves diagnosis, but also prognosis, therapy planning, and monitoring. Both are based on hypotheses introduced by means of...