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  • 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 ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals

    Formal and Empirical Approaches

    by Igor Douven ...
    Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Lotteries, Knowledge, and Rational Belief

    Essays on the Lottery Paradox

    Edited by Igor Douven ...
    We talk and think about our beliefs both in a categorical (yes/no) and in a graded way. How do the two kinds of belief hang together? The most straightforward answer is that we believe something categorically if we believe it to a high enough degree. But this seemingly obvious, near-platitudinous claim is known to give rise to a paradox commonly known as the 'lottery paradox' – at least when it is ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind

    A Tribute to David E. Over

    Edited by Shira Elqayam, Igor Douven, Jonathan St B. T. Evans, Nicole Cruz ...
    David E. Over is a leading cognitive scientist and, with his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he also exerts a powerful influence on the psychology of reasoning. He is responsible for not only a large body of empirical work and accompanying theory, but for advancing a major shift in thinking about reasoning, commonly known as the ‘new paradigm’ in the psychology of human reasoning.Over’s ... Read more

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  • Inductive Logic

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  • Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 2

    Arguments, Challenges, Alternatives

    by Michael G. Titelbaum ...
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