The research interests of the Computational Philosophy Laboratory and their partners’ include:

– general theoretical and cognitive issues
– models as fictions, distortions, credible worlds
– models and games of make-believe
– ontology of models
– affordances, artifacts, and model-based reasoning
– brain, neuroscience, and model-based reasoning
– abduction
– logical analyses related to model-based reasoning
– games, interactions, and linear inferential processes
– visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning
– simulative modeling
– the role of diagrammatic representations
– computational models of visual and simulative reasoning
– causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction
– visual analogy
– thought experimenting
– manipulative reasoning
– distributed model-based reasoning
– distributed cognition, embodiment, and model-based reasoning
– models and inferences of rationality and decision making
– model-based reasoning in scientific discovery and conceptual change
– model-based reasoning and ethics
– 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