Paul F. A. Bartha
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195325539
- eISBN:
- 9780199776313
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325539.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics
This chapter selectively reviews computational theories of analogical reasoning from Evans, Gentner, Holyoak and Thagard, Ashley, Carbonell, and Hofstadter. While these theories provide insight into ...
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This chapter selectively reviews computational theories of analogical reasoning from Evans, Gentner, Holyoak and Thagard, Ashley, Carbonell, and Hofstadter. While these theories provide insight into the processes involved in analogical reasoning, many of them operate with a perceptual model of analogical reasoning and appear to neglect normative questions. It is argued that most of the computational theories do, at least implicitly, incorporate normative principles and that those principles need to be examined critically. In particular, the chapter takes a close look at Gentner's systematicity principle. It is alleged that systematicity per se neither produces nor explains the plausibility of analogical arguments.Less
This chapter selectively reviews computational theories of analogical reasoning from Evans, Gentner, Holyoak and Thagard, Ashley, Carbonell, and Hofstadter. While these theories provide insight into the processes involved in analogical reasoning, many of them operate with a perceptual model of analogical reasoning and appear to neglect normative questions. It is argued that most of the computational theories do, at least implicitly, incorporate normative principles and that those principles need to be examined critically. In particular, the chapter takes a close look at Gentner's systematicity principle. It is alleged that systematicity per se neither produces nor explains the plausibility of analogical arguments.
Erik J. Olsson
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199279999
- eISBN:
- 9780191602665
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199279993.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Other accounts of coherence are described and compared with the present theory. They include those of Nicholas Rescher, Donald Davidson, Keith Lehrer, and Paul Thagard, whereby the latter’s theory of ...
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Other accounts of coherence are described and compared with the present theory. They include those of Nicholas Rescher, Donald Davidson, Keith Lehrer, and Paul Thagard, whereby the latter’s theory of explanatory coherence is seen to be most relevant. Closer examination reveals that there is little in Thagard’s argumentation suggesting that coherence is truth conducive, be it only in a weak ceteris paribus sense.Less
Other accounts of coherence are described and compared with the present theory. They include those of Nicholas Rescher, Donald Davidson, Keith Lehrer, and Paul Thagard, whereby the latter’s theory of explanatory coherence is seen to be most relevant. Closer examination reveals that there is little in Thagard’s argumentation suggesting that coherence is truth conducive, be it only in a weak ceteris paribus sense.
