Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

John H. Holland; Keith J. Holyoak; Richard E. Nisbett; Paul Thagard

ISBN 10: 0262580969 / ISBN 13: 9780262580960

Published by MIT Press, 1986

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Minor reading wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. xvi, 398 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262580969
• ISBN 13: 9780262580960
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Two psychologists, a computer scientist, and a philosopher have collaborated to present a framework for understanding processes of inductive reasoning and learning in organisms and machines. Theirs is the first major effort to bring the ideas of several disciplines to bear on a subject that has been a topic of investigation since the time of Socrates. The result is an integrated account that treats problem solving and induction in terms of rule­based mental models.

Induction is included in the Computational Models of Cognition and Perception Series.

A Bradford Book.

About the Author

John Holland is Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.