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Author:   L. Magnani ,  N.J. Nersessian ,  Paul Thagard
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1999 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.500kg
ISBN:  

9780306462924

ISBN 10:   0306462923
Pages:   343
Publication Date:   31 October 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Models, Mental Models, and Representations.- Model-Based Reasoning in Conceptual Change5.- Tracing the Development of Models in the Philosophy of Science.- Using Models to Represent Reality.- Models and Diagrams within the Cognitive Field.- Theories, Models, and Representations.- How Scientists Build Models InVivo Science as a Window on the Scientific Mind.- Discovery Processes and Mechanisms.- A Simulation of Model-Based Reasoning about Disparate Phenomena.- Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation: Ulcers, Dinosaur Extinction, and the Programming Language Java.- A Hierarchy of Models and Electron Microscopy.- Expansion and Justification of Models: the Exemplary Case of Galileo Galilei.- Simplifying Bayesian Inference: the General Case.- Complexity versus Complex Systems: A New Approach to Scientific Discovery.- Creative Inferences and Abduction.- Model-Based Reasoning in Creative Processes.- Model-Based Creative Abduction.- Abduction and Geometrical Analysis. Notes on Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe.- The Hierarchy of Models in Simulation.- Fictionalism and the Logic of “As If” Conditionals.- Scientific Modeling: A Multilevel Feedback Process.- Author Index.

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