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  • 1
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    Genova : Il melangolo
    ISBN: 9788870188561 , 8870188566
    Language: Italian
    Pages: 570 S. , 20 cm
    Series Statement: Opuscula 204
    Series Statement: Opuscula
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Gewalt ; Sozialphilosophie
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  • 2
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    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
    ISBN: 9783642299285
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 290 p. 11 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics 2
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Philosophy and cognitive science
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Kognition ; Modell ; Philosophie ; Philosophie ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Modellierung ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Kognitionswissenschaft
    Abstract: The book addresses a number of recent topics at the crossroad of philosophy and cognitive science, taking advantage of both the western and the eastern perspectives and conceptions that emerged and were discussed at the PCS2011 Conference recently held in Guangzhou. The ever growing cultural exchange between academics and intellectual belonging to different cultures is reverberated by the juxtaposition of papers, which aim at investigating new facets of crucial problems in philosophy: the role of models in science and the fictional approach; chance seeking dynamics and how affordances work; abductive cognition; visualization in science; the cognitive structure of scientific theories; scientific representation; mathematical representation in science; model-based reasoning; analogical reasoning; moral cognition; cognitive niches and evolution.
    Description / Table of Contents: Title Page; Preface; Contents; Scientific Models Are Not Fictions; Introduction; Models Are Not Fictions. The Inconsistency of the Argument of Imperfect Fit; Models Are Distributed and Never Abstracts: Model-Based Science as Epistemic Warfare; Perception-Action Common Coding as an Example of "On-Line" Manipulative Abduction; Fictions or Epistemic Weapons?; Are the In-Vitro Model or a Geometrical Diagram Fictions? Dynamic vs. Static View of Scientific Models; Confounding Static and Dynamic Aspects of the Scientific Enterprise; Resemblance and Feyerabend's Counterinduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Galileo's Modeling VindicatedConclusion; References; An Examination of the Thesis of Models as Representations; Introduction; Models as Instantiations vs. Representations; The Problems for the Structural View of Models; Other Approaches; Mental Models and the Elements of Modeling; Conclusion; References; On Animal Cognition: Before andAfter the Beast-Machine Controversy; Introduction; Between Avicenna and Peirce-Magnani: Estimation and Abduction in Animal; Avicenna's Sheep and Wolf; Peirce's and Magnani's Poor Chicken; The Analogy between Abduction and Estimation
    Description / Table of Contents: The Beast-Machine ControversyCartesian Denial of Animal Soul; Aristotelians' Attack against the Animal Automatism; Empiricists' Double Strategy; Instinct or Intelligence: A False Dilemma; References; From Mindless Modeling to Scientific Models; Introduction; Models without Modelers?; Embodied Models of Agency Recognition: An Eco-Cognitive Necessity; Emerging Animal Models as Abductive Representations; Emerging Models: Useful Instruments or Fictions?; Camouflage as the Strategic Use of Models in Nature; The Naturalness of Scientific Models
    Description / Table of Contents: All Human Knowledge Is a (Sometimes) Virtuous Distortion (and a Model Too)Both Emerging Models and Scientific Models Prepare for Mathematical Abstraction; From Emerging Models to Scientific Models; Conclusion; References; The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Greenhouse Effect: A Case Study of a Flawed AnalogousModel; The Roles of Metaphors; The Greenhouse Metaphor; The Nature of Heat; The Role of the Ocean; The Illusion to Instant Responses; The Need for a Conceptual Change; References; A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Thesis; The Thesis of Duhem; Methods Rather Than Minds
    Description / Table of Contents: Models and RepresentationModels and Structure; Models and Fiction; Conclusion; References; From the Received View to the Model-Theoretic Approach; To Give Up the Received View; The Model-Theoretic View of the Structure of Scientific Theories; F. Suppe's and C. Van Fraasen's State-Space Model; Suppes' Semantic Model by Using Set Theory; The Model-Theoretic Approach of the Sneedean School in Philosophy of Science; Conclusion; References; Cognitive Chance Discovery: From Abduction to Affordance; Introduction; Abduction; Incomplete Knowledge Reasoning -Abduction and Induction; Abductive Discovery
    Description / Table of Contents: Computational Abduction
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031019227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 230 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 463
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    Keywords: Philosophy of mind. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Technology—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Externalist Perspectives on Ignorance and Cognition (Selene Arfini and Lorenzo Magnani) -- Chapter 2. Relational Ignorance (Samantha Copeland) -- Chapter 3. Creative Ignorance (Wendy Ross) -- Chapter 4. Extended Ignorance (Duncan Pritchard) -- Chapter 5. Mindshaping, Racist Habits, and White Ignorance (Michelle Maiese) -- Chapter 6. Ignorance and (Im)Possibility (Vlad Glāveanu) -- Chapter 7. Mind Invasion through Cognitive Integration: Facebook and the Exploita-tion of Users’ Ignorance (Giacomo Figà-Talamanca and Elisabeth Hunting) -- Chapter 8. Institutions as Cognitive Niches: A Dynamics of Knowledge and Ignorance (Konrad Werner) -- Chapter 9. How Do We Think about the Unknown? The Self-Awareness of Ignorance as a Tool for Managing the Anguish of Not Knowing (Alger Sans Pinillos and Lorenzo Magnani) -- Chapter 10. How Do We Become Ignorant? Affording Ignorance Through Epistemic Actions (Selene Arfini).
    Abstract: This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and explore different phenomena and subjects of research, from known events in history and sociology of science to the investigation of ordinary reasoning and cognitive processing. Nonetheless, although interested scholars have discussed ignorance phenomena and their impact on cognition, most of them have only adopted an internalist perspective to approach this theme. Meanwhile, even though externalist perspectives on cognition flourished in recent literature, authors have paid little attention to the emerging field of ignorance studies. Ignorance has been generally left out from the inquiries on the extension of cognitive states, cognitive processes, and predictive reasoning. Thus, in this volume, we seek to merge the two growing areas of research and to fill this research gap fruitfully. By addressing the uncomfortable themes that pertain to ignorance and related phenomena through an externalist perspective, this book aims to provide much food for thoughts to cognitive scientists and philosophers alike, enriching the current range and reach of both ignorance studies and externalist approaches to cognition.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783030933296
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 156 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences 26
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    Keywords: Science—Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Discoverability Explained: Optimizing the Eco-Cognitive Situatedness -- 2. Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness: Diagnosticability, Affordances, Abduction -- 3. Eco-Cognitive Openness and Eco-Cognitive Closure: Locking or Unlocking Strategies? “Knowledge in Motion” Defended -- 4. Jeopardizing Discoverability Epistemic Irresponsibility: Human Creative Abduction Attacked -- 5. The Future of Eco-Cognitive Settings Computationally or Humanly Tailored? -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science. It shows that discoverability is closely related to the sustainability of human creativity in an "eco-cognitive" perspective. Advocating the need of an integral ecology and leveraging the important concept of abduction, it demonstrates that an ecology of human creativity should have priority over other needs, i.e that the first ecological duty is to protect and sustain discoverability. Enhancing discoverability will protect human creativity, and it is exactly human creativity, a form of innovative abductive cognition, that can promote the implementation of the other kinds of ecology. The author guides readers through a comprehensive discussion on the concept of discoverability, eco-cognitive situatedness, and eco-cognitive openness and closure alike. By describing some key real-world examples, he highlights the main challenges that are currently posed to human creativity and epistemic integrity. He also describes future eco-cognitive settings, discussing the problem of overcomputationalism and suggesting a reinterpretation of the role of human knowledge. Overall, this book fills an important gap in the literature on the nexus abduction – creativity – discovery, offering a source of inspiration to philosophers, epistemologists, and cognitive scientists. Yet, it also addresses researchers in other disciplines interested in the problems of scientific discovery and epistemic integrity of research.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783030684365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(20 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Cognitive science. ; Neural networks (Computer science). ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Philosophy and Abduction -- Theoretical and Cognitive Issues on Abduction and Scientific Inference -- The Logic of Hypothetical Reasoning, Abduction, and Models -- Abduction and Diagnosis -- Abduction in Mathematics -- Diagrams, Visual models, and Abduction -- Abduction in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience -- Abduction and Computation -- Abduction and Economics -- Abduction in Education and Human Sciences -- Abduction, Ignorance, and Creativity -- Abduction and Technological Design -- Adversarial Abduction (or Abduction and Adversariality).
    Abstract: This Handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of abductive cognition, providing readers with extensive information on the process of reasoning to hypotheses in humans, animals, and in computational machines. It highlights the role of abduction in both theory practice: in generating and testing hypotheses and explanatory functions for various purposes and as an educational device. It merges logical, cognitive, epistemological and philosophical perspectives with more practical needs relating to the application of abduction across various disciplines and practices, such as in diagnosis, creative reasoning, scientific discovery, diagrammatic and ignorance-based cognition, and adversarial strategies. It also discusses the inferential role of models in hypothetical reasoning, abduction and creativity, including the process of development, implementation and manipulation for different scientific and technological purposes. Written by a group of internationally renowned experts in philosophy, logic, general epistemology, mathematics, cognitive, and computer science, as well as life sciences, engineering, architecture, and economics, the Handbook of Abductive Cognition offers a unique reference guide for readers approaching the process of reasoning to hypotheses from different perspectives and for various theoretical and practical purposes. Numerous diagrams, schemes and other visual representations are included to promote a better understanding of the relevant concepts and to make concepts highly accessible to an audience of scholars and students with different scientific backgrounds.
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    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
    ISBN: 9783642374289
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 639 p. 79 illus., 4 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics 8
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Model-Based reasoning in science and technology
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy ; Computer simulation ; Consciousness ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy ; Computer simulation ; Consciousness ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaften ; Modellbasiertes Schließen ; Modellbasiertes Schließen ; Rationalität ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: 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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Models, Mental models, RepresentationsAbduction, Problem solving and Practical reasoning -- Historical, Epistemological and Technological issues.
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    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
    ISBN: 9783642219726
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Engineering Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistomology and Rational Ethics 1
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Engineering ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Engineering mathematics ; Gewalt ; Moral ; Religion
    Abstract: Lorenzo Magnani
    Abstract: This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book's primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for "moral" reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete
    Description / Table of Contents: Title Page; Preface; Contents; "Military Intelligence" Coalition Enforcement and the Evolutionary Origin of Morality and Violence; Philosophy: The Luxurious Supplement of Violence; Defining Violence: Violence Is Distributed and Always ``Perceived'' as Such; Coalition Enforcement: Morality and Violence; The Violent Nature of Language Language Is a Tool Exactly Like a Knife; The Violent Nature of Language: Abduction, Pregnances, Affordances; The Awesome and Perverse Academic Face of the Relationships; Moral Bubbles: Legitimizing and Dissimulating Violence Distributing Violence through Fallacies
    Description / Table of Contents: Violence, Language, and ``Writing''Fallacies as Distributed ``Military'' Intelligence; The Semiotic Emergence of Violence through Deception; The Violent Force of Law and of Morality; Ochlocracy: Violently Perverting Democracy and Its Values; Beyond 9/11. Democrats, Speak Out!; Bad News from Evolutionary Game Theory; Moral and Violent Mediators Delegating Ourselves to External Things: Moral/Violent Niches; Cognitive Niches as Moral Niches; ``A Sense of Purposefulness'' in Evolution; Distributing Morality and Violence through Cognitive Niche Construction
    Description / Table of Contents: Moral Mediators as Conflict Makers and Triggers for Structural ViolenceCollective Axiologies as Moral Niches, and the Derived Violent Conflicts; Building Violent Niches through Bullshit Mediators; Violence and the Right and the Duty to Information and Knowledge; Constructing Morality through Psychic Energy Mediators; Multiple Individual Moralities May Trigger Violence Engaging and Disengaging Morality; Multiple Individual'' Moralities; Pure Evil?; Fascist Morality and Happy Violence: ``The Fascist State of the Mind''; The Fascist Arguer and His Fallacious Dimensions
    Description / Table of Contents: The Perversity of ``Respecting People as Things''Religion, Morality, and Violence Faith, Violent Mediators, Overmoralization; Is Religion Violent? Faith and Its Pervertibility; Religion as a Natural Phenomenon; From Magical Thinking to Religion: Bubbles and Cognitive Firewalls; Sacred and Sacrifice: The Violent Boundaries of Magic; Overmorality and Wisdom: Morality or Indifference?; How Can Forgiveness Be Violent? The Ideal of Mercy and Its Discontents; Conclusion; References; Index
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319184791
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 221 p. 14 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics 20
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Engineering ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Engineering
    Abstract: The book shows how eastern and western perspectives and conceptions can be used to addresses recent topics laying at the crossroad between philosophy and cognitive science. It reports on new points of view and conceptions discussed during the International Conference on Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2013), held at the Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, China, and the 2013 Workshop on Abductive Visual Cognition, which took place at KAIST, in Deajeon, South Korea. The book emphasizes an ever-growing cultural exchange between academics and intellectuals coming from different fields. It juxtaposes research works investigating new facets on key issues between philosophy and cognitive science, such as the role of models and causal representations in science; the status of theoretical concepts and quantum principles; abductive cognition, vision, and visualization in science from an eco-cognitive perspective. Further topics are: ignorance immunization in reasoning; moral cognition, violence, and epistemology; and models and biomorphism. The book, which presents a unique and timely account of the current state-of-the art on various aspects in philosophy and cognitive science, is expected to inspire philosophers, cognitive scientists and social scientists, and to generate fruitful exchanges and collaboration among them.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Contents; Part I International Conference Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2013); Reframing the Problem of Cognitive Penetrability; 1 Introduction; 2 Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Cognitive Effects on Perception, the Evidential Role of Perception, and Cognitive Penetrability; 2.1 Intrinsic Cognitive Effects and Cognitive Penetrability of Perception; 2.2 Extrinsic Cognitive Effects and Cognitive Penetrability: The Evidential Role of Perception; 3 Early Vision; 3.1 Intrinsic Cognitive Effects on Early Vision; 3.2 Extrinsic Cognitive Effects on Early Vision; 4 Concluding Discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesThe Emergence and Development of Causal Representations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Emergence of Causal Representations; 3 The Development of Causal Representations; 4 Falling Back to the Primitive Causal Schema; 5 Conclusion; References; On the Nature and Composition of Abstract (Theoretical) Concepts: The X-Ception Theory and Methods for Its Assessment; 1 Introduction; 2 The Standard Picture of Abstractness; 3 Abstractness in a New Perspective: The X-ception Theory; 4 Methodological Issues: Is There a Way to Assess Internal Grounding?; 5 Concluding Remarks; References
    Description / Table of Contents: An Eco-Cognitive Model of Ignorance Immunization 1 Introduction; 2 Introducing Ignorance into the Naturalization of Logic; 2.1 The Visible Part of Ignorance: Peirce's Irritation of Doubt; 3 Fallibilism: A Belief-Based Paradigm; 3.1 Another Kind of Abundance: How Fallibilism Can Shape Ignorance; 4 The Bubble Thesis and the Double-Sided Autoimmunity System; 4.1 The Downside of Belief and of the First-Person Perspective; 4.2 Doubt and the Missing-Ascription of Ignorance; 5 The Fugitivity of Truth (and Ignorance); 5.1 Cognitive Autoimmunity: The Homunculus Fallacy; 6 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards a Caricature Model of Science1 Introduction; 2 Misrepresentation in Context; 3 Niiniluoto's Treatment of the Caricature Theory of Reference; 4 Too Many Analogies Between Art and Science?; 5 Gombrich as Philosopher: The Role of Caricatures in Art and Illusion; 6 Idealizations and Caricatures; 7 Concluding Remarks; References; Violence and Abductive Cognition; 1 Abduction, Pregnances, Affordances: Eco-Cognitive Aspects; 1.1 Saliences and Pregnances as Biological and Cognitive Mediators; 1.2 Eco-Cognition of Moral Pregnances and Affordances
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3 The Artlessness of Proto-Morality and Violence2 The Moral/Violent Function of Language; 2.1 ``Military Intelligence'', Morality, and Ideologies; 2.2 Language and Conflicts; 2.3 Scapegoating Through Pregnances; 3 Conclusion and Future Work; References; Part II International Workshop Visual Abduction or Abductive Vision? KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology); Understanding Visual Abduction; 1 Perception Versus Inference in Abductive Cognition; 1.1 Perceptions, Iconic Cognition, and Model-Based Abduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 Iconicity Hybridates Logicality: Inference in a Semiotic Perspective
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781461506058
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 404 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy and science. ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The study of diagnostic, visual, spatial, analogical, and temporal reasoning has demonstrated that there are many ways of performing intelligent and creative reasoning that cannot be described with the help of traditional notions of reasoning, such as classical logic. Understanding the contribution of modeling practices to discovery and conceptual change in science requires expanding scientific reasoning to include complex forms of creative reasoning that are not always successful and can lead to incorrect solutions. The study of these heuristic ways of reasoning is situated at the crossroads of philosophy, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and logic; that is, at the heart of cognitive science. There are several key ingredients common to the various forms of model-based reasoning considered in this book. The term `model' comprises both internal and external representations. The models are intended as interpretations of target physical systems, processes, phenomena, or situations. The models are retrieved or constructed on the basis of potentially satisfying salient constraints of the target domain. Moreover, in the modeling process, various forms of abstraction are used. Evaluation and adaptation take place in the light of structural, causal, and/or functional constraints. Model simulation can be used to produce new states and enable evaluation of behaviors and other factors. The various contributions of the book are written by interdisciplinary researchers who are active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology: the most recent results and achievements in the topics above are illustrated in the chapters
    Description / Table of Contents: Metaphor-Based Values in Scientific ModelsAnalogy in Scientific Discovery: The Case of Johannes Kepler -- Model Experiments and Models in Experiments -- Models, Simulations, and Experiments -- Calibration of Models in Experiments -- The Development of Scientific Taxonomies -- Production, Science and Epistemology. An Overview on New Models and Scenarios -- Modeling Practices and “Tradition” -- Modeling Data: Analogies in Neural Networks, Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms -- Perceptual Simulation in Analogical Problem Solving -- Building Demand Models to Improve Environmental Policy Process -- Toward a Computational Model of Hypothesis Formation and Model Building in Science -- Models as Parts of Distributed Cognitive Systems -- Conceptual Models, Inquiry and the Problem of Deriving Normative Claims from a Naturalistic Base -- Dynamic Imagery: A Computational Model of Motion and Visual Analogy -- Model-Based Reasoning and Similarity in the World -- Epistemic Artifacts: Michael Faraday’s Search for the Optical Effects of Gold -- Epistemic Mediators and Model-Based Discovery in Science -- Deterministic Models and the “Unimportance of the Inevitable” -- Mental Models in Conceptual Development -- Modeling Core Knowledge and Practices in a Computational Approach to Innovation Process -- Author Index.
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789401096225
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (276p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 66
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy and science. ; Geometry ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Philosophers have studied geometry since ancient times. Geometrical knowledge has often played the role of a laboratory for the philosopher's conceptual experiments dedicated to the ideation of powerful theories of knowledge. Lorenzo Magnani's new book Philosophy and Geometry illustrates the rich intrigue of this fascinating story of human knowledge, providing a new analysis of the ideas of many scholars (including Plato, Proclus, Kant, and Poincaré), and discussing conventionalist and neopositivist perspectives and the problem of the origins of geometry. The book also ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and cognitive scientists, showing, for example, the connections between geometrical reasoning and cognition as well as the results of recent logical and computational models of geometrical reasoning. All the topics are dealt with using a novel combination of both historical and contemporary perspectives. Philosophy and Geometry is a valuable contribution to the renaissance of research in the field
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