This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition. It aims at incre

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important and innov

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important, innovati

There are several key ingredients common to the various forms of model-based reasoning considered in this book. The term ‘model’ comprises both internal and