Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett, Paul R. Thagard (Authors)

ISBN 10: 0262580969 / ISBN 13: 9780262580960

Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA & London, 1989

About this Item

398 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light creasing on spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
• Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA & London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262580969
• ISBN 13: 9780262580960
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st MIT Press Ppbk Ed, 1989
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Philosophy

About this title

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.