Abductive Minds: Essays in Honor of Lorenzo Magnani - Volume 1

This book, the first of two volumes, provides novel perspectives on the study of abduction, by analyzing both Magnani's ample investigation of the subject and discussing its rising importance in today's epistemology and philosophy of science. Notwithstanding the long history of the concept, which has been studied since its analysis in Aristotle's Organon, in the last fifty years, it has known a re...