edited by
Lorenzo Magnani, Nancy J. Nersessian, and Paul Thagard
Contents:
MODELS, MENTAL MODELS, AND REPRESENTATIONS
Model-Based Reasoning in Conceptual Change, Nancy J. Nersessian
Tracing the Development of Models in the Philosophy of Science, Daniela M.
Bailer-Jones
Using Models to Represent Reality, Ronald N. Giere
Models and Diagrams within the Cognitive Field, Kenneth J. Knoespel
Theories, Models, and Representations, Mauricio Suárez
How Scientists Build Models In Vivo Science as a Window on the Scientific
Mind, Kevin Dunbar
DISCOVERY PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS
A Simulation of Model-Based Reasoning about Disparate Phenomena, David C
Gooding and Tom R Addis
Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation: Ulcers, Dinosaur
Extinction, and the Programming Language Java, Paul Thagard and David Croft
A Hierarchy of Models and Electron Microscopy, Todd Harris
Expansion and Justification of Models: the Exemplary Case of Galileo
Galilei, Vasilis Raisis
Simplifying Bayesian Inference: the General Case, Stefan Krauß, Laura
Martignon, and Ulrich Hoffrage
Complexity versus Complex Systems: A New Approach to Scientific Discovery,
F. Tito Arecchi
CREATIVE INFERENCES AND ABDUCTION
Model-Based Reasoning in Creative Processes, Joke Meheus
Model-Based Creative Abduction, Lorenzo Magnani
Abduction and Geometrical Analysis. Notes on Charles S. Peirce and Edgar
Allan Poe, Ilkka Niiniluoto
The Hierarchy of Models in Simulation, Eric Winsberg
Abducting Explanation, Vincent F. Hendricks and Jan Faye
Fictionalism and the Logic of "As If" Conditionals, Claudio Pizzi
Scientific Modeling: A Multilevel Feedback Process, Jan M. Zytkow
Author Index
Subject Index
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers October 1999
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