Abductive Cognition

"Abductive Cognition" is a scholarly book that addresses the topic of abductive cognition, a significant yet long-neglected aspect of cognitive research. The author, Lorenzo Magnani, explores creative and expert-supported inference methods and positions these advanced abductive thinking processes at the intersection of philosophy, logic, epistemology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, animal cognition, and evolutionary theories. The book sheds light on the challenges and opportunities associated with the exploration of creative inference processes and offers a deep insight into the mechanisms underlying scientific thinking and discovery. It discusses how traditional views on the rationality of discovery processes can be questioned and the role that computer-assisted methods can play in the discovery of empirical and theoretical laws.