Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Virtuous Distortion....Pages 3-30
Naturalizing Peirce’s Semiotics: Ecological Psychology’s Solution to the Problem of Creative Abduction....Pages 31-50
Smart Abducers as Violent Abducers....Pages 51-82
Different Cognitive Styles in the Academy-Industry Collaboration....Pages 83-105
Abduction, Induction, and Analogy....Pages 107-119
Belief Revision vs. Conceptual Change in Mathematics....Pages 121-134
Affordances as Abductive Anchors....Pages 135-157
A Model-Based Reasoning Approach to Prevent Crime....Pages 159-177
Abducing the Crisis....Pages 179-198
Pathophysiology of Cancer and the Entropy Concept....Pages 199-206
A Pattern Language for Roberto Burle Marx Landscape Design....Pages 207-219
A Visual Model of Peirce’s 66 Classes of Signs Unravels His Late Proposal of Enlarging Semiotic Theory....Pages 221-237
The Role of Agency Detection in the Invention of Supernatural Beings....Pages 239-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Does Logic Count?....Pages 265-274
Causal Abduction and Alternative Assessment: A Logical Problem in Penal Law....Pages 275-289
On a Theoretical Analysis of Deceiving: How to Resist a Bullshit Attack....Pages 291-299
Using Analogical Representations for Mathematical Concept Formation....Pages 301-314
Good Experimental Methodologies and Simulation in Autonomous Mobile Robotics....Pages 315-332
The Logical Process of Model-Based Reasoning....Pages 333-358
Constructive Research and Info-computational Knowledge Generation....Pages 359-380
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Emergent Semiotics in Genetic Programming and the Self-Adaptive Semantic Crossover....Pages 381-392
An Episodic Memory Implementation for a Virtual Creature....Pages 393-406
Abduction and Meaning in Evolutionary Soundscapes....Pages 407-427
Consequences of a Diagrammatic Representation of Paul Cohen’s Forcing Technique Based on C.S. Peirce’s Existential Graphs....Pages 429-443
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
How Brains Make Mental Models....Pages 447-461
Applications of an Implementation Story for Non-sentential Models....Pages 463-476
Does Everyone Think, or Is It Just Me?....Pages 477-494
Morality According to a Cognitive Interpretation: A Semantic Model for Moral Behavior....Pages 495-517
The Symbolic Model for Algebra: Functions and Mechanisms....Pages 519-532
The Theoretician’s Gambits: Scientific Representations, Their Formats and Content....Pages 533-558
Modeling the Epistemological Multipolarity of Semiotic Objects....Pages 559-569
Imagination in Thought Experimentation: Sketching a Cognitive Approach to Thought Experiments....Pages 571-587
Representations of Contemporaneous Events of a Story for Novice Readers....Pages 589-605
Understanding and Augmenting Human Morality: An Introduction to the ACTWith Model of Conscience....Pages 607-621
Analog Modeling of Human Cognitive Functions with Tripartite Synapses....Pages 623-635
The Leyden Jar in Luigi Galvani’s thought: A Case of Analogical Visual Modeling....Pages 637-642
Modeling the Causal Structure of the History of Science....Pages 643-654