Igor Douven, "The Art of Abduction" (MIT Press, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Best Explanation to Abduction
In his first job as an assistant professor at the university of utricht, he taught epistemology. He was trying to defend scientific realism against a man who argued that we cannot believe unobservable entities exist. But from time to time, he came back to abduction and started doing empirical work on it. "I think i got more seriously interested in it when, a little bit, by coincidence, i began collaborating with a psychologist"
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