The Art Of Abduction
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Author |
: Igor Douven |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2022-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262369916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262369915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Abduction by : Igor Douven
A novel defense of abduction, one of the main forms of nondeductive reasoning. With this book, Igor Douven offers the first comprehensive defense of abduction, a form of nondeductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning, which is guided by explanatory considerations, has been under normative pressure since the advent of Bayesian approaches to rationality. Douven argues that, although it deviates from Bayesian tenets, abduction is nonetheless rational. Drawing on scientific results, in particular those from reasoning research, and using computer simulations, Douven addresses the main critiques of abduction. He shows that versions of abduction can perform better than the currently popular Bayesian approaches—and can even do the sort of heavy lifting that philosophers have hoped it would do. Douven examines abduction in detail, comparing it to other modes of inference, explaining its historical roots, discussing various definitions of abduction given in the philosophical literature, and addressing the problem of underdetermination. He looks at reasoning research that investigates how judgments of explanation quality affect people’s beliefs and especially their changes of belief. He considers the two main objections to abduction, the dynamic Dutch book argument, and the inaccuracy-minimization argument, and then gives abduction a positive grounding, using agent-based models to show the superiority of abduction in some contexts. Finally, he puts abduction to work in a well-known underdetermination argument, the argument for skepticism regarding the external world.
Author |
: John R. Shook |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2021-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030617738 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030617734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abduction in Cognition and Action by : John R. Shook
This book gathers together novel essays on the state-of-the-art research into the logic and practice of abduction. In many ways, abduction has become established and essential to several fields, such as logic, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, and methodology. In recent years this interest in abduction’s many aspects and functions has accelerated. There are evidently several different interpretations and uses for abduction. Many fundamental questions on abduction remain open. How is abduction manifested in human cognition and intelligence? What kinds or types of abduction can be discerned? What is the role for abduction in inquiry and mathematical discovery? The chapters aim at providing answer to these and other current questions. Their contributors have been at the forefront of discussions on abduction, and offer here their updated approaches to the issues that they consider central to abduction’s contemporary relevance. The book is an essential reading for any scholar or professional keeping up with disciplines impacted by the study of abductive reasoning, and its novel development and applications in various fields.
Author |
: Jennifer Stanley Tafe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 98 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:67522471 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Divine Abduction by : Jennifer Stanley Tafe
Author |
: Susan O'Brien |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438117232 |
ISBN-13 |
: 143811723X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Child Abduction and Kidnapping by : Susan O'Brien
According to the US Department of Justice, more than 250,000 children are abducted each year. This book explains the types of kidnappings, details government and law enforcement efforts to prevent and solve them, and explores the many practices and programs, such as the AMBER Alert, to help protect children.
Author |
: Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome) |
Publisher |
: J Paul Getty Museum Publications |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1606060996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781606060995 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens by : Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome)
Quatremére de Quincy, the most famous art critic at the end of the Enlightenment, published two sets of letters about the role of museums. He first implored them to return works of art to their original settings but later argued in favor of the museum as a place where artworks can be safely stored and made available for artists to study. Immensely contraversial and influential since they were written two centuries ago, Quatremére's texts sum up the most bewildering moment of the debate on museums: did the new institution inauguate the death of art, or bring it to its perfection? This volume offers the first English translation of the letters, as well as an extensive introduction that reveals their content, the reason for their intellectual success, and how they enlarge contemporary disputes about cultural property, national claims and universal beauty.
Author |
: Leonard Goldberg |
Publisher |
: Minotaur Books |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2021-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250224231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250224233 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Abduction of Pretty Penny by : Leonard Goldberg
A continuation of USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg's Daughter of Sherlock Holmes series, The Abduction of Pretty Penny finds Joanna and the Watsons on the tail of an infamous killer. Joanna and the Watsons are called in by the Whitechapel Playhouse to find Pretty Penny, a lovely, young actress who has gone missing without reason or notice. While on their search, the trio is asked by Scotland Yard to join in the hunt for a vicious murderer whose method resembles that of Jack The Ripper. It soon becomes clear that The Ripper has reemerged after a 28-year absence and is once again murdering young prostitutes in Whitechapel. Following a line of subtle clues, Joanna quickly reasons that Pretty Penny has been taken capture by the killer. But as Joanna moves closer to learning his true identity, the killer sends her a letter indicating her young son Johnny will be the next victim to die. Time is running out, and Joanna has no choice but to devise a most dangerous plan which will bring her face-to-face with the killer. It is the only chance to protect her son and rescue Pretty Penny, and save both from an agonizing death. The Abduction of Pretty Penny is a wonderful new entry in a series that the Historical Novel Society calls “one of the best Sherlock Holmes series since Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell books."
Author |
: Kevin Sylvester |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2014-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442446083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442446080 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction by : Kevin Sylvester
When Neil arrives in Mexico City to partake in the Battle of the Chefs, he learns that Isabella has been kidnapped and it will take a dose of Aztec history and knowledge of buried ruins to find her before time runs out.
Author |
: Anthony Colantuono |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521563976 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521563970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen by : Anthony Colantuono
A study of Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen.
Author |
: Linda Savage |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 24 |
Release |
: 2013-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1492247820 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781492247821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abduction in Art by : Linda Savage
Abduction in ArtBy Linda Savage
Author |
: Mack |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2009-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439190029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 143919002X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by : Mack
A Harvard psychiatrist, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder, presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than sixty cases he has investigated and examines the implications for our identity as a species. These mesmerizing and thought-provoking stories of alien encounters from a Harvard professor take you through actual case studies of people from all walks of life and ages who have had challenging, sometimes disturbing, and in every case, life changing experiences of alien abduction. “John Mack explores evidence of nonhuman intelligence like an attorney preparing for the ‘trial of the century’—interviewing witnesses, examining physical evidence, consulting with experts in related fields, constantly questioning his own assumptions…As a story of one man’s determination to bear witness to cosmic mysteries with extraordinary implications for the human future, Abduction is bound to become a modern classic” (Keith Thompson, author of Angels and Aliens)