Abductive Reasoning

By clarifying the notion of abduction as a common and significant type of reasoning in everyday argumentation, Abductive Reasoning highlights abduction's value in argumentation, computing and artificial intelligence, psychology and cognitive science, law, philosophy, linguistics, and speech communication and rhetoric.

"Abductive Reasoning is interdisciplinary in the right way: the drawing together of fields is demanded by the nature of the problem and issues, not by ideology or administrative decree."--Jonathan E. Adler, author of Belief's Own Ethics

Douglas Walton has published 33 books including Legal Argumentation and Evidence, One Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias, Ad Hominem Arguments, Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning, and A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy.