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The International Conference ‘MODEL-BASED REASONING: EPISTEMOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE’ will be held at Sapienza University of Rome, from Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th of June 2026. The conference will be organized by the Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section and Computational Philosophy Lab of the University of Pavia and the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome.

Program

The conference will investigate the logical, epistemological, and cognitive dimensions of modeling practices across science, technology (with particular attention to AI), and cognitive science. This includes both logical and computational approaches to modeling. We welcome submissions that analyze model-based reasoning from a variety of perspectives, philosophical, logical, epistemological, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational. Additionally, the conference will address how model-based reasoning contributes to the development and enhancement of human cognitive abilities, whether mental, embodied, hybrid, or tool-assisted.

Relevant Research Areas

We call for papers in the following areas:
– General theoretical and cognitive issues in model-based reasoning
– Models as fictions, distortions, credible worlds
– Creative reasoning
– Models and games of make-believe
– Ontology of models
– Affordances, artifacts, and model-based reasoning
– Brain, neuroscience, and model-based reasoning
– Abduction
– Abduction, morality, and violence
– Abduction and secrecy
– Logical analyses related to model-based reasoning
– Inferences, interaction and duality in logic and language
– Visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning
– Simulative modeling
– Surrogative reasoning
– The role of diagrammatic reasoning
– Computational models of visual and simulative reasoning
– Causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction
– Visual analogy
– Thought experiments
– Manipulative reasoning
– Distributed model-based reasoning
– Distributed cognition, embodiment, and model-based reasoning
– Models of rationality and inference patterns in decision making
– Model-based reasoning in scientific discovery and conceptual change
– Model-based reasoning and ethics
– Model-based reasoning and finance
– Model-based reasoning and economics
– Model-based reasoning and history of philosophy
– Model-based reasoning and semiotics
– Model-based reasoning in scientific explanation
– Model-based medical diagnosis
– Model-based reasoning in engineering and robotics
– Model-based reasoning and technological artifacts
– Model-based reasoning and knowledge management
– Model-based reasoning and information technology
– The role of models in scientific and technological thinking
– Model-based reasoning and learning
– Model-based reasoning and language