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Computational philosophy of science is a collaboration between the philosophy of science and cognitive science. Cognitive science is itself a joint venture involving cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence research, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, and philosophy (Stillings et al., 1987), suggesting many interesting problems for philosophers of science (see Bechtel, 1988a). As illustrated in Chapter 6, Bechtel pays quite a lot of attention to reductionistic and nonreductionistic possibilities for co-operation between the disciplines involved.
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This chapter profited a lot from Alexander van den Bosch’s detailed criticism. For a survey study of ‘rationality in discovery’, see Bosch (2001).
Davis’ book is certainly not restricted to common sense knowledge, as the title of the book claims.
Chapter 3 of (Shrager and Langley, 1990) is, however, devoted to such problems.
As far as we know, there are only a few logical approaches to standard abduction, viz. the already mentioned belief revision developed by Peter Gardenfors and others (Gardenfors, 1988), nonmonotonic logic approaches by Konolige (1990, 1996), logic programming (see Kakas et al., 1998), and the semantic tableau approach (Meyer and Pirri, 1993; Aliseda, 1997).
See Langley (2000) for an extended version. For some other recent surveys of approaches and results, see Darden (1997) and Valdes-Perez (1999).
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Kuipers, T.A.F. (2001). Computational Philosophy of Science. In: Structures in Science. Synthese Library, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9739-5_11
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