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A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems: The Reach of Abduction: Insight and Trial by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods (Hardback, 2005)

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The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the tion of relevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods w turn to abduction. In this highly original approach, abduction is construed as igrance-preserving inference, in which conjecture plays a pivotal role. Abduction is a response to a cognitive target that cant be hit on the basis of what the agent currently kws. The abducer selects a hypothesis which were it true would enable the reasoner to attain his target. He concludes from this fact that the hypothesis may be conjectured. In allowing conjecture to stand in for the kwledge he fails to have, the abducer reveals himself to be a satisficer, since an abductive solution is t a solution from kwledge. Key to the authors' analysis is the requirement that a conjectured proposition is t just what a reasoner might allow himself to assume, but a proposition he must defeasibly release as a premiss for further inferences in the domain of enquiry in which the original abduction problem has arisen. The coverage of the book is extensive, from the philosophy of science to computer science and AI, from diagstics to the law, from historical explanation to linguistic interpretation. One of the volume's strongest contributions is its exploration of the abductive character of criminal trials, with special attention given to the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Underlying their analysis of abductive reasoning is the authors' conception of practical agency. In this approach, practical agency is dominantly a matter of the comparative modesty of an agent's cognitive agendas, together with comparatively scant resources available for their advancement. Seen in these ways, abduction has a significantly practical character, precisely because it is a form of inference that satisfices rather than maximizes its response to the agent's cognitive target. The Reach of Abduction will be necessary reading for researchers, graduate students and senior undergraduates in logic, computer science, AI, belief dynamics, argumentation theory, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, forensic science, legal reasoning and related areas. Key features: - Reach of Abduction is fully integrated with a background logic of cognitive systems. - The most extensive coverage compared to competitive works. - Demonstrates t only that abduction is a form of igrance preserving inference but that it is a mode of inference that is wholly rational. - Demonstrates the satisficing rather than maximizing character of abduction. - The development of formal models of abduction is considerably more extensive than one finds in existing literature. It is an especially impressive amalgam of sophisticated conceptual analysis and extensive logical modelling.

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Elsevier Science & Technology, Elsevier Science Ltd
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044451791x
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9780444517913
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Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods
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Hardback
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English
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Philosophy
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Textbook

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890g
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225mm
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149mm

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Oxford
Author Biography
Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.
Date of Publication
02/05/2005
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Philosophy

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