Model-based reasoning in science and technology : inferential models for logic, language, cognition and computation

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Probing Possibilities: Toy Models, Minimal Models, and Exploratory Models  (Axel Gelfert)....Pages 3-19
 Model Types and Explanatory Styles in Cognitive Theories  (Simone Pinna, Marco Giunti)....Pages 20-40
 The Logic of Dangerous Models  (Selene Arfini)....Pages 41-54
 A Pragmatic Model of Justification Based on “Material Inference” for Social Epistemology  (Raffaela Giovagnoli)....Pages 55-68
 Counterfactual Thinking in Cooperation Dynamics  (Luís Moniz Pereira, Francisco C. Santos)....Pages 69-82
 Modeling Morality  (Walter Veit)....Pages 83-102
 Coherence and Credibility in the Story-Model of Jurors’ Decision-Making: Does Mental Simulation Really Drive the Evaluation of the Evidence?  (Marion Vorms, David Lagnado)....Pages 103-119
 Insight Problem Solving and Unconscious Analytic Thought. New Lines of Research  (Laura Macchi, Veronica Cucchiarini, Laura Caravona, Maria Bagassi)....Pages 120-137
 On Understanding and Modeling in Evo-Devo  (Rodrigo Lopez-Orellana, David Cortés-García)....Pages 138-152
 Conjuring Cognitive Structures: Towards a Unified Model of Cognition  (Majid D. Beni)....Pages 153-172
 How Philosophical Reasoning and Neuroscientific Modeling Come Together  (Gabriele Ferretti, Marco Viola)....Pages 173-190
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 The Dialogic Nature of Semiotic Tools in Facilitating Conscious Thought: Peirce’s and Vygotskii’s Models  (Donna E. West)....Pages 193-216
 Creative Model-Based Diagrammatic Cognition  (Lorenzo Magnani)....Pages 217-244
 Kant on the Generality of Model-Based Reasoning in Geometry  (William Goodwin)....Pages 245-255
 The Logic of Picturing: Wittgenstein, Sellars and Peirce’s EG-beta  (Rocco Gangle, Gianluca Caterina, Fernando Tohmé)....Pages 256-273
 An Inferential View on Human Intuition and Expertise  (Rico Hermkes, Hanna Mach)....Pages 274-286
 Disseminated Causation: A Model-Theoretical Approach to Sophisticated Abduction  (Andrés Rivadulla)....Pages 287-297
 Defining a General Structure of Four Inferential Processes by Means of Four Pairs of Choices Concerning Two Basic Dichotomies  (Antonino Drago)....Pages 298-317
 Remarks on the Possibility of Ethical Reasoning in an Artificial Intelligence System by Means of Abductive Models  (Alger Sans, David Casacuberta)....Pages 318-333
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 On the Follies of Intercourse Between Models and Fiction: A Naturalized Causal-Response Diagnosis  (John Woods)....Pages 337-371
 Default Soundness in the Old Approach: An Epistemic Analysis of Default Reasoning  (David Gaytán)....Pages 372-392
 Models and Data in Finance: les Liaisons Dangereuses  (Emiliano Ippoliti)....Pages 393-406
 How Can You Be Sure? Epistemic Feelings as a Monitoring System for Cognitive Contents  (Sara Dellantonio, Luigi Pastore)....Pages 407-426
 A Model for the Interlock Between Propositional and Motor Formats  (Gabriele Ferretti, Silvano Zipoli Caiani)....Pages 427-440
 A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach for Conceptual Explicitation  (David Fuenmayor, Christoph Benzmüller)....Pages 441-469
 The Context-Priming of Conceptual Knowledge: RPEC and SPEC Models  (Bideng Xiang, Ping Li)....Pages 470-481
 Graphs in Linguistics: Diagrammatic Features and Data Models  (Paolo Petricca)....Pages 482-499
Back Matter ....Pages 501-502