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

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398 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light creasing on spine. Seller Inventory # 3iiiDe0019

Bibliographic Details

Title: Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning,...

Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA & London

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st MIT Press Ppbk Ed, 1989

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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 rule-based mental models. Induction is included in the Computational Models of Cognition and Perception Series. A Bradford Book.

Review:

" A broad, sweeping inquiry of what concepts are, what learning is, and how it can take place at all.... "Induction" is a deep synthesis of epistemology, evolution and computation. This path-breaking treatise will undoubtedly come to be recognized as a major step toward an interdisciplinary explanation of mentality" -- Douglas Hofstadter

& quot; A broad, sweeping inquiry of what concepts are, what learning is, and how it can take place at all.... Induction is a deep synthesis of epistemology, evolution and computation. This path-breaking treatise will undoubtedly come to be recognized as a major step toward an interdisciplinary explanation of mentality& quot; -- Douglas Hofstadter

"A broad, sweeping inquiry of what concepts are, what learning is, and how it can take place at all.... "Induction" is a deep synthesis of epistemology, evolution and computation. This path-breaking treatise will undoubtedly come to be recognized as a major step toward an interdisciplinary explanation of mentality"--Douglas Hofstadter