Abduction: Can non-human animals make discoveries?
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Abduction : Can non-human animals make discoveries? / Vitti-Rodrigues, Mariana; Emmeche, Claus.
I: Biosemiotics, Bind 10, Nr. 2, 2017, s. 295-313.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Abduction
T2 - Can non-human animals make discoveries?
AU - Vitti-Rodrigues, Mariana
AU - Emmeche, Claus
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between information and abductive reasoning in the context of problem-solving, focusing on non-human animals. Two questions guide our investigation: (1) What is the relation between information and abductive reasoning in the context of human and non-human animals? (2) Do non-human animals perform discovery based on inferential processes such as abductive reasoning? In order to answer these questions, we discuss the semiotic concept of information in relation to the concept of abductive reasoning and, more specifically, to the notion of manipulative abduction proposed by Magnani (2009). Finally, we investigate a case study of corvids’ intelligence, namely, their capacity of causal cognition.
AB - The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between information and abductive reasoning in the context of problem-solving, focusing on non-human animals. Two questions guide our investigation: (1) What is the relation between information and abductive reasoning in the context of human and non-human animals? (2) Do non-human animals perform discovery based on inferential processes such as abductive reasoning? In order to answer these questions, we discuss the semiotic concept of information in relation to the concept of abductive reasoning and, more specifically, to the notion of manipulative abduction proposed by Magnani (2009). Finally, we investigate a case study of corvids’ intelligence, namely, their capacity of causal cognition.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Information
KW - Corvids' intelligence
KW - problem solving
KW - animal cognition
KW - abduction
U2 - 10.1007/s12304-017-9300-0
DO - 10.1007/s12304-017-9300-0
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 295
EP - 313
JO - Biosemiotics
JF - Biosemiotics
SN - 1875-1342
IS - 2
ER -
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