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Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery |
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Edited by |
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Lorenzo Magnani
Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Nancy J. Nersessian
School of Public Policy and College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Paul Thagard
Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Table of Contents |
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MODELS, MENTAL MODELS, AND REPRESENTATIONS |
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Model-Based Reasoning in Conceptual Change |
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Nancy J. Nersessian |
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Tracing the Development of Models in the Philosophy of Science |
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Daniela M. Bailer-Jones |
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Using Models to Represent Reality |
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Ronald N. Giere |
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Models and Diagrams within the Cognitive Field |
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Kenneth J. Knoespel |
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Theories, Models, and Representations |
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Mauricio Suárez |
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How Scientists Build Models InVivo Science as a Window on the Scientific Mind |
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Kevin Dunbar |
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DISCOVERY PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS |
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A Simulation of Model-Based Reasoning about Disparate Phenomena |
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David C. Gooding and Tom R. Addis |
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Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation: Ulcers, Dinosaur Extinction, and the Programming Language Java |
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Paul Thagard and David Croft |
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A Hierarchy of Models and Electron Microscopy |
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Todd Harris |
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Expansion and Justification of Models: the Exemplary Case of Galileo Galilei |
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Vasilis Raisis |
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Simplifying Bayesian Inference: The General Case |
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Stefan Krauß, Laura Martignon, and Ulrich Hoffrage |
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Complexity versus Complex Systems: A New Approach to Scientific Discovery |
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F. Tito Arecchi |
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CREATIVE INFERENCES AND ABDUCTION |
197 |
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Model-Based Reasoning in Creative Processes |
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Joke Meheus |
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Model-Based Creative Abduction |
219 |
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Lorenzo Magnani |
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Abduction and Geometrical Analysis. Notes on Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe |
239 |
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Ilkka Niiniluoto |
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The Hierarchy of Models in Simulation |
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Eric Winsberg |
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Abducting Explanation |
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Vincent F. Hendricks and Jan Faye |
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Fictionalism and the Logic of "As If" Conditionals |
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Claudio Pizzi |
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Scientific Modeling: A Multilevel Feedback Process |
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Jan M. Zytkow |
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Author Index |
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Subject Index |
333 |