Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, Technology

Abductive reasoning, in plain terms, is the habit of settling on whichever explanation looks strongest once the facts are laid out. This volume puts forward new ideas about the inferential and information-processing foundations of knowledge and certainty.

The book's authors hold that knowledge grows out of experience through abductive inference. They set this against the view that knowledge arises non-inferentially, and the subtitle signals an interest in how computation and technology bear on these questions.

Published by Cambridge University Press, with ISBN-13 9780521575454.