Code
01P06307
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
heuristic relevance
adaptive logic
deductive relevance
abduction
DN-explanation
Project description
A general logical-philosophical framework will be developed that will enable us to explicate forms of relevance that occur in human reasoning processes. Both deductive and heuristic relevance and their interrelation will be taken into account. Moreover, the general framework will also be used to tackle problems in philosophy of science. More specifically, problems concerning DN-explanations and abduction-processes.