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Abductive Reasoningby Atocha Aliseda
Springer 2006; US$ 169.00Divided into three parts on the conceptual framework, the logical foundations, and the applications, this work takes the reader for a tour through the taxonomy of abductive reasoning, via the logical workings of abductive inference ending with applications pertinent to scientific explanation, empirical progress, pragmatism and belief revision. more...
A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systemsby Dov M. Gabbay; John Woods
Elsevier 2005; US$ 210.00The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the notion of relevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods now turn to abduction. In this highly original approach, abduction is construed as ignorance-preserving inference, in which conjecture plays a pivotal role. Abduction is a response to a cognitive target that cannot be hit on the basis of what the agent currently knows. 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 knowledge he fails to have, the abducer reveals himself to be... more...
Neural Preprocessing and Control of Reactive Walking Machinesby Poramate Manoonpong
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2007; US$ 89.95This book presents biologically inspired walking machines interacting with their physical environment. It describes how the designs of the morphology and the behavior control of walking machines can benefit from biological studies. The purpose of this book is to develop a modular structure of neural control generating different reactive behaviors of the physical walking machines, to analyze the neural mechanisms underlying the reactive behaviors, and to demonstrate the sensor fusion technique leading to smooth switching between appropriate behaviors, like obstacle avoidance and sound tropism. The author offers an example of artificial perception-action systems and emphasizes the close relationship between biological studies, computational neuroscience... more...
Abductive Inferenceby John R. Josephson; Susan G. Josephson
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 40.00This book analyses abduction as an information-processing phenomenon. more...
Regulae ad directionem ingenii. Cogitationes privataeby René Descartes; Christian Wohlers; Christian Wohlers; Christian Wohlers
Felix Meiner Verlag 2011; US$ 40.75Hauptbeschreibung Diese Ausgabe enthält mit den "Regulae ad directionem ingenii" und den sachlich korrespondierenden "Cogitationes privatae" zwei frühe Texte Descartes' aus der Zeit von 1619 bis 1628; erstere in einer völlig neuen, letztere erstmalig in einer deutschen Übersetzung. Grundlage für die Wiedergabe des lateinischen Textes der Regulae und der Übersetzung dieses größten Fragments aus der Zeit vor Descartes' Übersiedlung in die Niederlande ist die kritische Ausgabe von Giovanni Crapulli, La Haye 1966, die der schwierigen Überlieferungslage der erst postum aus dem Nachlaß publizierten Schrift am ehesten gerecht wird; die von Springmeyer in seiner 1973 innerhalb der "Philosophischen Bibliothek" vorgelegten und seither mehrfach nachgedruckten... more...
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