Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783642264672)

Abduction, Problem Solving, and Practical Reasoning.- Virtuous Distortion.- Naturalizing Peirce's Semiotics: Ecological Psychology's Solution to the Problem of Creative Abduction.- Smart Abducers as Violent Abducers.- Different Cognitive Styles in the Academy-Industry Collaboration.- Abduction, Induction, and Analogy.- Belief Revision vs. Conceptual Change in Mathematics.- Affordances as Abductive Anchors.- A Model-Based Reasoning Approach to Prevent Crime.- Abducing the Crisis.- Pathophysiology of Cancer and the Entropy Concept.- A Pattern Language for Roberto Burle Marx Landscape Design.- A Visual Model of Peirce's 66 Classes of Signs Unravels His Late Proposal of Enlarging Semiotic Theory.- The Role of Agency Detection in the Invention of Supernatural Beings.- Formal and Computational Aspects of Model Based Reasoning.- Does Logic Count?.- Causal Abduction and Alternative Assessment: A Logical Problem in Penal Law.- On a Theoretical Analysis of Deceiving: How to Resist a Bullshit Attack.- Using Analogical Representations for Mathematical Concept Formation.- Good Experimental Methodologies and Simulation in Autonomous Mobile Robotics.- The Logical Process of Model-Based Reasoning.- Constructive Research and Info-computational Knowledge Generation.- Emergent Semiotics in Genetic Programming and the Self-Adaptive Semantic Crossover.- An Episodic Memory Implementation for a Virtual Creature.- Abduction and Meaning in Evolutionary Soundscapes.- Consequences of a Diagrammatic Representation of Paul Cohen's Forcing Technique Based on C.S. Peirce's Existential Graphs.- Models, Mental Models, Representations.- How Brains Make Mental Models.- Applications of an Implementation Story for Non-sentential Models.- Does Everyone Think, or Is It Just Me?.- Morality According to a Cognitive Interpretation: A Semantic Model for Moral Behavior.- The Symbolic Model for Algebra: Functions and Mechanisms.- The Theoretician's Gambits: Scientific Representations, Their Formats and Content.- Modeling the Epistemological Multipolarity of Semiotic Objects.- Imagination in Thought Experimentation: Sketching a Cognitive Approach to Thought Experiments.- Representations of Contemporaneous Events of a Story for Novice Readers.- Understanding and Augmenting Human Morality: An Introduction to the ACTWith Model of Conscience.- Analog Modeling of Human Cognitive Functions with Tripartite Synapses.- The Leyden Jar in Luigi Galvani's thought: A Case of Analogical Visual Modeling.- Modeling the Causal Structure of the History of Science.

Author: Lorenzo Magnani
ISBN-10: 3642264670
ISBN-13: 9783642264672
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2012
Pages: 654
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.08lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.37d