Model-based reasoning
Subtitle: science, technology, values
By: edited by Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian.
Contributors: Magnani, Lorenzo.; Nersessian, Nancy J.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Science -- Methodology -- Congresses.; Discoveries in science -- Congresses.; Qualitative reasoning -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Metaphor-Based Values in Scientific Models 1; title: Mark Johnson; title: Analogy in Scientific Discovery: The Case of Johannes Kepler 21; title: Dedre Gentner; title: Model Experiments and Models in Experiments 41; title: Mary S.Morgan; title: Models, Simulations, and Experiments 59; title: Francesco Guala; title: Calibration of Models in Experiments 75; title: Marcel Boumans; title: The Development of Scientific Taxonomies 95; title: Hanne Andersen; title: Production, Science and Epistemology.An Overview on New 113; title: Models and Scenarios; title: Simone Turchetti, Mauro Capocci, Elena Gagliasso; title: Modeling Practices and "Tradition" 127; title: Elke Kurz-Milcke and Laura Martignon; title: Modeling Data: Analogies in Neural Networks, Simulated 147; title: Annealing and Genetic Algorithms; title: Daniela M.Bailer-Jones and Coryn A.L.Bailer-Jones; title: Perceptual Simulation in Analogical Problem Solving 167; title: David L.Craig, Nancy J.Nersessian, and Richard Catrambone; title: Building Demand Models to Improve Environmental Policy Process 191; title: Bryan G.Norton; title: Toward a Computational Model of Hypothesis 209; title: Formation and Model Building in Science; title: Joseph Phillips, Gary Livingston, and Bruce Buchanan; title: Models as Parts of Distributed Cognitive Systems 227; title: Ronald N.Giere; title: Conceptual Models, Inquiry and the Problem of Deriving Normative 243; title: Claims from a Naturalistic Base; title: Andrew Ward; title: Dynamic Imagery: A Computational Model of Motion and Visual 259; title: Analogy; title: David Croft and Paul Thagard; title: Model-Based Reasoning and Similarity in the World 275; title: Qiming Yu; title: Epistemic Artifacts: Michael Faraday's Search for the Optical 287; title: Effects of Gold; title: Ryan D.Tweney; title: Epistemic Mediators and Model-Based Discovery in Science 305; title: Lorenzo Magnani; title: Deterministic Models and the "Unimportance of the Inevitable" 331; title: Claudio Pizzi; title: Mental Models in Conceptual Development 353; title: Stella Vosniadou; title: Modeling Core Knowledge and Practices in a Computational 369; title: Approach to Innovation Process; title: Stefania Bandini and Sara Manzoni; title: Subject Index 399.