Philosophy and Cognitive Science

1. Front Matter

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2. Scientific Models Are Not Fictions

   • Lorenzo Magnani

   Pages 1-38

3. An Examination of the Thesis of Models as Representations

   • Dachao Li, Ping Li

   Pages 39-51

4. On Animal Cognition: Before and After the Beast-Machine Controversy

   • Woosuk Park

   Pages 53-74

5. From Mindless Modeling to Scientific Models

   • Tommaso Bertolotti

   Pages 75-104

6. The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Greenhouse Effect: A Case Study of a Flawed Analogous Model

   • Xiang Chen

   Pages 105-114

7. A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Thesis

   • Chuang Liu

   Pages 115-141

8. From the Received View to the Model-Theoretic Approach

   • Leilei Qi, Huaxia Zhang

   Pages 143-154

9. Cognitive Chance Discovery: From Abduction to Affordance

   • Akinori Abe

   Pages 155-172

10. A Proposal on Belief, Abduction and Interpretation

    • Claudio Pizzi

    Pages 173-184

11. Not by Luck Alone: The Importance of Chance-Seeking and Silent Knowledge in Abductive Cognition

    • Emanuele Bardone

    Pages 185-203

12. Cognitive Abduction and the Study of Visual Culture

    • María G. Navarro, Noemi de Haro García

    Pages 205-220

13. Understanding Scientific Inference in the Natural Sciences Based on Abductive Inference Strategies

    • Jun-young Oh

    Pages 221-237

14. Moral Intuitions vs. Moral Reasoning. A Philosophical Analysis of the Explanatory Models Intuitionism Relies On

    • Sara Dellantonio, Remo Job

    Pages 239-262

15. Evolutionary Tolerance

    • Luís Moniz Pereira

    Pages 263-287

The book addresses a number of recent topics at the crossroad of philosophy and cognitive science, taking advantage of both the western and the eastern perspectives and conceptions that emerged and were discussed at the PCS2011 Conference recently held in Guangzhou. The ever growing cultural exchange between academics and intellectual belonging to different cultures is reverberated by the juxtaposition of papers, which aim at investigating new facets of crucial problems in philosophy: the role of models in science and the fictional approach; chance seeking dynamics and how affordances work; abductive cognition; visualization in science; the cognitive structure of scientific theories; scientific representation; mathematical representation in science; model-based reasoning; analogical reasoning; moral cognition; cognitive niches and evolution.

• Abductive Cognition
• Affordances
• Analogical Reasoning
• Cognitive Discovery
• Model-Based Reasoning
• Scientific Representation

From the reviews:

 

“The 14 chapters in the book are divided into two sections, ‘Models, Representation, and Cognition’ and ‘Abduction, Reasoning, and Cognition.’ … this is an interesting and important collection, well-worth consulting for a broader view of a rapidly expanding academic world.” (Ryan D. Tweney, Mind & Society, 2013)

• , Department of Philosophy, Universita Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  Lorenzo Magnani

• , Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, People's Republic

  Ping Li

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