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Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology

Theoretical and Cognitive Issues

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Lorenzo Magnani

    1. Department of Humanities Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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  • Recent advances in Model-Based Reasoning research and in its applications to science and technology
  • Proceedings of Model-Based Reasoning 2012 ITALY (MBR_012)
  • Written by leading experts in the field

Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 8)

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This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR´012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy.  Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. Some of the contributions analyzed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology and stressed the issues of scientific and technological innovation. The book is divided in three main parts: models, mental models, representations; abduction, problem solving and practical reasoning; historical, epistemological and technological issues.

 

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Models, Mental Models, Representations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Some Ways of Thinking

      • Barbara Tversky
      Pages 3-8

    3. Against Fictionalism

      • John Woods
      Pages 9-42

    4. Fear-Driven Inference: Mechanisms of Gut Overreaction

      • Paul Thagard, A. David Nussbaum
      Pages 43-53

    5. Living in the Model: The Cognitive Ecology of Time—A Comparative Study

      • Chris Sinha
      Pages 55-73

    6. How Scientific Models Differ from Works of Fiction

      • Demetris Portides
      Pages 75-87

    7. What’s in a Diagram?

      • Mikkel Willum Johansen
      Pages 89-108

    8. Models and Points of View: The Analysis of the Notion of Point of View

      • Manuel Liz
      Pages 109-128

    9. The Arabic Script, from Visual Analogy to Model-Based Reasoning

      • Christian Tamas
      Pages 129-139

    10. Mechanism and Phenomenon of Consciousness

      • Paolo Pecere
      Pages 141-157

    11. Information Integration in the Brain: Modeling a Putative Function of the Astroglial Network

      • Alfredo Pereira Jr, Fábio Augusto Furlan
      Pages 159-169

  3. Abduction, Problem Solving and Practical Reasoning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Understanding Abduction

      • Lorenzo Magnani
      Pages 173-205

    3. How to Learn Abduction from Animals? From Avicenna to Magnani

      • Woosuk Park
      Pages 207-220

    4. Abduction and Model Based Reasoning in Plato’s Meno

      • Priyedarshi Jetli
      Pages 221-245

    5. Generation of Hypotheses by Ampliation of Data

      • Emiliano Ippoliti
      Pages 247-262

    6. Abduction, Competing Models and the Virtues of Hypotheses

      • H. G. Callaway
      Pages 263-280

    7. Galileo’s Discovery of the Moons Orbiting Jupiter Based on Abductive Inference Strategies

      • Jun-Young Oh, Yoo Shin Kim
      Pages 281-299

    8. Icon and Abduction: Situatedness in Peircean Cognitive Semiotics

      • Pedro Atã, João Queiroz
      Pages 301-313
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  • Department of Humanities Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Lorenzo Magnani

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