RECENT PUBLICATIONS




L. Magnani and R. Dossena, (2002), Perceiving the Infinite and the Infinitesimal World: Unveiling and Optical Diagrams and the Construction of Mathematical Concepts, Special Issue of Foundations of Science. Proceedings of Model Based Reasoning. Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, forthcoming.

L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.

L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

L. Magnani (2001), Philosophy and Geometry. Theoretical and Historical Issues, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.

L. Magnani (2001), Abduction, Reason, and Science. Processes of Discovery and Explanation, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999 (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Qiming Yu and Tianen Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Peking, 2000).

L. Magnani (2000), Action-based abduction in science, in A. Aliseda and D. Pearce, Workshop Scientific Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science, ECAI 2000 Workshop Notes, Berlin, pp. 46-51.

L. Magnani (1999), Withdrawing unfalsifiable hypotheses, Foundations of Science 4(2) (1999) 133-153.

L. Magnani (1999), Inconsistencies and creative abduction in science, in AI and scientific creativity.Proceedings of the AISB99 Symposium on Scientific Creativity, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, Edinburgh College of Art and Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, pp. 1-8.

L. Magnani (1999), Incommensurability and creative abduction in science, International Conference on Incommensurability, Hannover, June 1999.

L. Magnani (1999), Model-based abduction, in L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, & P. Thagard (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999, pp. 219-238.

L. Magnani (1999), I limiti della razionalità scientifica, in L. Valle (ed.), Cultura e spiritualità, Nardini Editore, Fiesole, 1999, pp. 23-30.

L. Magnani (chairperson), A. Chella, L. da Fontoura Costa (1999), Symbolism and connectionism paradigms, in V. Cantoni, A. Setti, V. Di Gesù, & D. Tegolo (eds.), Human and Machine Perception 2. Emergency, Attention, and Creativity, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999, pp. 185-194.

L. Magnani & G. Previde Massara (1999), Toward a theory of visual abductive thinking, in C. Taddei Ferretti, ed, Biocybernetic of Vision. Integrative Mechanism and Cognitive Processes, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 271-280.

L. Magnani and R. Gennari (1997), Logic Textbook. Classical Logic and Commonsense Logic, Guerini & Associati, Milan, 1997 (in Italian).

L. Magnani (1997), Knowledge Engineering. Introduction to Computational Philosophy, Marcos y Marcos, Milan, 1997 (in Italian).

L. Magnani (1997), Basic science reasoning and clinical reasoning intertwined: Epistemological analysis and consequences for medical education, Advances in Health Sciences Education 2 (1997) 115-130.

L. Magnani (1996), Aspetti epistemologici del ragionamento temporale, Quaderni CIRMS 1 (1996) 1-16.

L. Magnani (1995), Creative processes in scientific discovery, European Journal for High Ability 6(2) (1995) 160-169.

M. Ramoni, M. Stefanelli, L. Magnani, & G. Barosi (1992), An epistemological framework for medical knowledge-based systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 22, 6 (1992) 1361-1375.

L. Magnani (1992), Abductive reasoning: Philosophical and educational perspectives in medicine, in D. A. Evans & V. L. Patel (eds.), Advanced Models of Cognition in Medical Training and Practice, Springer, Berlin, 1992, pp. 21-41.

 
 


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