The aim of this homepage is to establish a network between scholars who are interested in Abductive Inference. We are working out a bibliography, and we are providing information about activities, projects, conferences, and links to other homepages.

In the last five decades there can be noticed an increasing interest of the scientific community regarding nondeductive, pragmatic reasoning, especially Abductive Inference which Charles Sanders Peirce called the "first stage" of investigation and semiotic interpretation. Abductive Inference is "inference to the best explanation".

The research on Abductive Inference provides the unique opportunity of approaching interdisciplinarity under a single aspect. Disciplines such as Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Semiotics, and recently Artificial Intelligence have pursued using Abductive Inference to reformulate, and to solve some of their specific problems of research.

The INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP ON ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE wants to become something like a marketplace for information about Abductive Inference. Let's share all we know. Tell us about books, articles or activities related to the research on Abductive Inference.