Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology : Theoretical and Cognitive Issues

Lorenzo Magnani

ISBN 10: 3662510553 / ISBN 13: 9783662510551

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR 012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy. Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. Some of the contributions analyzed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology and stressed the issues of scientific and technological innovation. The book is divided in three main parts: models, mental models, representations; abduction, problem solving and practical reasoning; historical, epistemological and technological issues. The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology : Theoretical and Cognitive Issues
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662510553
• ISBN 13: 9783662510551
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR´012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy.  Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. Some of the contributions analyzed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology and stressed the issues of scientific and technological innovation. The book is divided in three main parts: models, mental models, representations; abduction, problem solving and practical reasoning; historical, epistemological and technological issues.

 

The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international

 

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This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR´012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy. Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. Some of the contributions analyzed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology and stressed the issues of scientific and technological innovation. The book is divided in three main parts: models, mental models, representations; abduction, problem solving and practical reasoning; historical, epistemological and technological issues.