Lorenzo Magnani
Lorenzo Magnani, philosopher and cognitive scientist, is a full professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, and the director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory.
Sessions in which Lorenzo Magnani participates
Tuesday 2 June, 2026
Theme : Philosophical and formal perspectives on reasoning and decision-making: coherence and abduction in reasoning and decision making
- Introduction
- Coherence versus probability in models of reasoning and decision making: Lessons from the new AI
- The place of logical abduction in the cognitive sciences
- Abduction and creativity: The Eco-cognitive foundations of hypothetical reasoning
- Reasoning with conditionals: abduction and deduction
- Panel of the session
I will show how abduction represents the fundamental form of hypothetical reasoning that also underlies human creativity and scientific discovery. Adopting an eco-cognitive perspective, I will demonstrate that abduction is not a purely internal mental process, but a distributed, embodied, and environmentally embedded activity. Through external manipulations, models, and environmental affordances, humans generate creative hypotheses that turn the world into cogni...