MBR98
CONFERENCE
MODEL-BASEDREASONINGINSCIENTIFICDISCOVERY
PROCEEDINGS

BOOK:

L. MAGNANI, N.J. NERSESSIAN, AND P.THAGARD, EDS.,
MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY,
KLUWERACADEMIC/PLENUMPUBLISHER,
NEWYORK, 1999.

(NOV.1999)

(Chinese edition,translatedandeditedbyQimingYuandTianenWang,
ChinaScienceandTechnologyPress, Peking,2001)

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TableofContents
MODELS, MENTAL MODELS, AND REPRESENTATIONS
Model-Based Reasoning in Conceptual Change
Nancy J. Nersessian
Tracing the Development of Models in the Philosophy of Science
Daniela M. Bailer-Jones
Using Models to Represent Reality
Ronald N. Giere
Models and Diagrams within the Cognitive Field
Kenneth J. Knoespel
Theories, Models, and Representations
Mauricio Suárez
How Scientists Build Models InVivo Science as a Window on the Scientific Mind
Kevin Dunbar
DISCOVERY PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS
A Simulation of Model-Based Reasoning about Disparate Phenomena
David C. Gooding and Tom R. Addis
Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation: Ulcers, Dinosaur Extinction, and the Programming Language Java
Paul Thagard and David Croft
A Hierarchy of Models and Electron Microscopy
Todd Harris
Expansion and Justification of Models: the Exemplary Case of Galileo Galilei
Vasilis Raisis
Simplifying Bayesian Inference: the General Case
Stefan Krauß, Laura Martignon, and Ulrich Hoffrage
Complexity versus Complex Systems: A New Approach to Scientific Discovery
F. Tito Arecchi
CREATIVE INFERENCES AND ABDUCTION
Model-Based Reasoning in Creative Processes
Joke Meheus
Model-Based Creative Abduction
Lorenzo Magnani
Abduction and Geometrical Analysis. Notes on Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe
Ilkka Niiniluoto
The Hierarchy of Models in Simulation
Eric Winsberg
Abducting Explanation
Vincent F. Hendricks and Jan Faye
Fictionalism and the Logic of "As If" Conditionals
Claudio Pizzi
Scientific Modeling: A Multilevel Feedback Process
Jan M. Zytkow
Author Index
Subject Index

SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL
PHILOSOPHICA 61 1998(1)
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HENDRICKS, V. F. & PEDERSEN, S. A. Discovery, Knowledge
and Reliable Limiting Convergence -the KaLC- Paradigm

JOSEPHSON, J. R. Abduction-Prediction Model of Scientific
Discovery Reflected in a Prototype System for Model-Based Diagnosis

HERNÁNDEZ-ORALLO, J. Computational 'Consilience'
as Basis for Theory Formation

KEINATH, A. & KREMS, J. F. The Influence of Anomalous
Data on Solving Human Abductive Tasks

BRINGSJORD, S.  Scientifically Informative Discovery
of (Gödel's) Model-Based Mathematical Discovery

ARZARELLO, F., ADRIANO, V. & OLIVERO, F., ROBUTTI, O.
Abduction andConjecturing in Mathematics


SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL
Foundations of Science 2001

MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE: KNOWLEDGE AND DISCOVERY

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AMIGONI, F.; SCHIAFFONATI, V & SOMALVICO, M. A Multilevel
Architecture of Creative Dynamic Agency

CERRONI, A. Covariance/Invariance: A Cognitive Heuristic
in Einstein's Relativity Theory Formation

CORNUEJOLS, A. TIBERGHIEN, A. & COLLET, G. Decomposing the
Scientific Discovery Process Using Multiple Interpretations of "Notions"

HERNANDEZ-ORALLO, J and GARCIA-VAREA, I., Explanatory
and Creative Alternatives to the MDL principle

PENNOCK, R. T. Can Darwinian Mechanisms Make Novel
Discoveries? Learning from Discoveries Made by Evolving Neural Networks

VIALE, R. & OSHERSON, D. The Diversity Principle and the Little Scientist Hypothesis



SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL
PHILOSOPHICA 61 1998(2)
ANALOGY AND MENTALMODELING IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

L. MAGNANI, N.J. NERSESSIAN, AND P. THAGARD, EDS.

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BANDINI, S. LANZARONE, G. A. & VALPIANI, A. Revisiting the
Mental Models Theory in Terms of Computational Models Based on Constructive Induction

FREEDMAN, E. G. An Executive-Control-Process Model of Scientific Discovery

GUALA, F. Experiments and Models as Mediators in the Non-Laboratory Sciences

MYRSTAD, J. A. Models in Perception and Models in Science

VISOKOLSKIS, S. The Incidence of Analogical Procedures in the Emergency
of Mathematical Concepts. Newton and Leibniz: a Case Study