{"pk":25855,"title":"The Eco-Cognitive Model of Abduction (EC-Model)\nIs Abduction Really Ignorance-Preserving?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"From the logical point of view, abduction is a procedure in\nwhich something that lacks classical explanatory epistemic\nvirtue can be accepted because it has virtue of another kind:\nthe GW-Model contends that abduction presents an ignorancepreserving\nor (ignorance-mitigating) character. From this perspective\nabductive reasoning is a response to an ignoranceproblem.\nIs abduction really ignorance-preserving? To better\nanswer this question I will take advantage of my eco-cognitive\nmodel (EC-model) of abduction. It will be illustrated, also\nthanks to cognitive and epistemological considerations, that\nthrough abduction, knowledge can be enhanced, even when\nabduction is not considered an inference to the best explanation\nin the classical sense of the expression, that is an inference\nnecessarily characterized by an empirical evaluation phase.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Abduction; Ignorance Preservation; GW-Schema;\nEC-Model."}],"section":"Publication-Based Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gs943r8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lorenzo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Magnani","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pavia","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25855/galley/15479/download/"}]}