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Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
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Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
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The book Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, aims to
explain how specific modeling practices employed by scientists are
productive methods of creative changes in science. The study of
diagnostic, visual, spatial, analogical, and temporal reasoning has
demonstrated that there are many ways of performing intelligent and
creative reasoning which cannot be described by classical logic
alone. The study of these high-level methods of reasoning is
situated at the crossroads of philosophy, artificial intelligence,
cognitive psychology, and logic: at the heart of cognitive science.
Model based reasoning promotes conceptual change because it is
effective in abstracting, generating, and integrating constraints
in ways that produce novel results. There are several key
ingredients common to the various forms of model-based reasoning to
be considered in this presentation. 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.In the modeling process, various forms of abstraction, such
as limiting case, idealization, generalization, and generic
modeling are utilized. Evaluation and adaptation take place in the
light of structural of structural, causal, and/or functional
constraint satisfaction and enhanced understanding of the target
problem is obtained through the modeling process. Simulation can be
used to produce new states and enable evaluation of behaviors,
constraint satisfaction, and other factors. The book also addresses
some of the main aspects of the concept of abduction, connecting it
to the central epistemological question of hypothesis withdrawal in
science and model-based reasoning, where abductive interferences
exhibit their most appealing cognitive virtues. The most recent
results and achievements in the above areas are illustrated in
detail by the various contributors to the work, who are among the
most respected researchers in philosophy, artificial intelligence
and cognitive science.
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