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Springer, Dordrecht

2014

639 Pages

ISBN 978-3-642-37427-2

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
vol. 8

Model-based reasoning in science and technology

theoretical and cognitive issues

Edited by

Lorenzo Magnani

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 dividedin three main parts: models, mental models, representations; abduction, problem solving and practical reasoning; historical, epistemological and technological issues.

 

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Magnani, L. (ed) (2014). Model-based reasoning in science and technology: theoretical and cognitive issues, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Some ways of thinking

Tversky Barbara

3-8

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Against fictionalism

Woods John

9-42

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Fear-driven inference

Thagard Paul

43-53

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Living in the model

Sinha Chris

55-73

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Models and points of view

Liz Manuel

109-128

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Information integration in the brain

Pereira Alfredo; Furlan Fabio Augusto

159-169

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Understanding abduction

Magnani Lorenzo

173-205

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Icon and abduction

Atã Pedro; Queiroz João

301-313

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Freedom and moral judgment a cognitive model of permissibility

Dellantonio Sara; Pastore Luigi

339-361

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Models of moral cognition

White Jeffrey

363-391

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Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom

Ghins Michel

415-429

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Pauli's idea of the neutrino

Gauderis Tjerk

449-461

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Generative and demonstrative experiments

Bertolotti Tommaso

479-498

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Complex systems of mindful entities

Moniz Pereira Luís; Anh Han The; Santos Francisco C.

499-525

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Autonomous mobile robots as technical artifacts

Amigoni Francesco; Schiaffonati Viola

527-542

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Models and ideology in design

Shelley Cameron

609-623

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How affordance changes

Dongming Cao; Lingling Luo; Jian Wang

625-639

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