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  1. The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity: An Essay on the Ecology of Cognition.Lorenzo Magnani - 2017 - Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag.
    This book employs a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to underline the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition. Its main focus is on the knowledge-enhancing virtues of abduction and on the productive role of scientific models. What are the distinctive features that define the kind of knowledge produced by science? To provide an answer to this question, the book first addresses the ideas of Aristotle, who stressed the essential inferential and distributed role of external cognitive tools and epistemic mediators (...)
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  • Abduction and styles of scientific thinking.Mariana Vitti Rodrigues & Claus Emmeche - 2019 - Synthese 198 (2):1397-1425.
    In philosophy of science, the literature on abduction and the literature on styles of thinking have existed almost totally in parallel. Here, for the first time, we bring them together and explore their mutual relevance. What is the consequence of the existence of several styles of scientific thinking for abduction? Can abduction, as a general creative mode of inference, have distinct characteristic forms within each style? To investigate this, firstly, we present the concept of abduction; secondly we analyze what is (...)
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  • Patterns of abduction.Gerhard Schurz - 2008 - Synthese 164 (2):201-234.
    This article describes abductions as special patterns of inference to the best explanation whose structure determines a particularly promising abductive conjecture and thus serves as an abductive search strategy. A classification of different patterns of abduction is provided which intends to be as complete as possible. An important distinction is that between selective abductions, which choose an optimal candidate from given multitude of possible explanations, and creative abductions, which introduce new theoretical models or concepts. While selective abduction has dominated the (...)
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  • Abduction, tomography, and other inverse problems.Ilkka Niiniluoto - 2011 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (1):135-139.
    Charles S. Peirce introduced in the late 19th century the notion of abduction as inference from effects to causes, or from observational data to explanatory theories. Abductive reasoning has become a major theme in contemporary logic, philosophy of science, and artificial intelligence. This paper argues that the new growing branch of applied mathematics called inverse problems deals successfully with various kinds of abductive inference within a variety of scientific disciplines. The fundamental theorem about the inverse reconstruction of plane functions from (...)
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  • Peirce and Magnani on Geometrical Diagrams.Woosuk Park - 2016 - In Abduction in Context: The Conjectural Dynamics of Scientific Reasoning. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag.
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  • (2 other versions)Abductive Reasoning. Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation.Atocha Aliseda - 2009 - Critica 41 (123):129-146.
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  • Technoscientific Research: Methodological and Ethical Aspects.Roman Z. Morawski - 2019 - De Gruyter.
    From the content: Introduction Mathematical modelling Measurement Scientific explanation Context of discovery Context of justification Uncertainty of scientific knowledge Morality and moral philosophy System ofvalues associated with science General principles of moral decision-making Researchethics Methodological and ethical issues related to experimentation Methodological and ethical issues to researchinformation Methodological and ethical issuesrelated to legal protection of intellectual property.
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  • Philosophy of science: classic debates, standard problems, future prospects.John Worrall - 2002 - In Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 18-36.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Background Why is Science Special from the Epistemic Point of View? Accumulation in Science, Despite “Revolutions”? Other Issues.
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  • Philosophy of science: classic debates, standard problems, future prospects.John Worrall - 2002 - In Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 18-36.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Background Why is Science Special from the Epistemic Point of View? Accumulation in Science, Despite “Revolutions”? Other Issues.
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