Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach - Couverture rigide

Aizawa, Kenneth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009435698 ISBN 13 : 9781009435697

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Abductive reasoning is a form of inference that infers some hypothesis because of what that hypothesis explains. Unlike deductive reasoning, it yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it. The theory of compositional abduction developed in this book provides a novel theory of confirmation. Aizawa uses case studies to analyse how scientists interpret the results of experiments to support compositional hypotheses (hypotheses about what things are composed of) and suggests that they use a kind of abduction. His theory is offered as an alternative account of scientific reasoning that the logical empiricists would have interpreted as hypothetico-deductive confirmation. It is also an alternative to the Peircean interpretation of the role of abduction in science. It will be valuable to philosophers of science, those working on hypothetico-deductive confirmation, Peirce's view of abduction, inference to the best explanation, and the New Mechanism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth Aizawa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, Newark. He is co-editor (with Carl Gillett) of Scientific Composition and Metaphysical Ground (2016), co-author (with Fred Adams) of The Bounds of Cognition (2008), and author of The Systematicity Arguments (2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009435698
• ISBN 13: 9781009435697
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie