Igor Douven, "The Art of Abduction" (MIT Press, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
00:00
The Context of Abduction
In the book, i have a chapter wer where i look at a context, which i try to describe as realistic as possible. So when you have an icy vew soo intensive care unit, and patients are being brought in at a regular basis and have to be evaluateds. But of course, they also have to be er accurate in what they believe about the patient. And it's just because, so these these explanatory considerations, they they give a booth, so to speakthe t make a attach a a bit more weight to certain hypothesesabasois, more cautious. Now, that can sometimes be a good idea to be, to be cautious inference. Ah, but en
Transcript
Play full episode
