Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery

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Kluwer/Plenum (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 ...

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Theories, models and interpretations.Lorenzo Magnani, Nancy J. Nersessian & Paul Thagard
Theories, models and interpretations.Mauricio Suárez
Theories, models and representation.Mauricio Suárez
Model-based reasoning in conceptual change.  (pages 5--22)Nancy J. Nersessian
Tracing the Development of Models in the Philosophy of Science.  (pages 23--40)Daniela M. Bailer-Jones
Weighing, then summing: The triumph and tumbling of a modeling practice in psychology.  (pages 26--31)E. Kurz & L. Martignon
Using models to represent reality.  (pages 41--57)Ronald N. Giere
Models and diagrams within the cognitive field.  (pages 59--73)Kenneth J. Knoespel
Theories, models, and representations.  (pages 75--83)Mauricio Suárez
How scientists build models: In vivo science as a window on the scientific mind.  (pages 85-99)Kevin Dunbar
The scientist in vivo: How scientists think and reason in the laboratory.  (pages 89--98)Kevin Dunbar
Scientific discovery and technological innovation: ulcers, dinosaur extinction, and the programming language java.  (pages 125--137)Paul Thagard & David Croft
A hierarchy of models and electron microscopy.  (pages 139--148)Todd Harris
Expansion and Justification of Models: The Exemplary Case of Galileo Galilei.  (pages 149--164)Vasilis Raisis
Simplifying Bayesian Inference: The General Case.  (pages 165)Stefan Krauβ, Laura Martignon & Ulrich Hoffrage
Complexity versus complex systems: A new approach to scientific discovery.  (pages 181--196)F. Tito Arecchi
Model-based reasoning in creative processes.  (pages 199--217)Joke Meheus
Model-based creative abduction.  (pages 219--238)L. Magnani
Abduction and geometrical analysis. notes on Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe.  (pages 239--254)Ilkka Niiniluoto
The hierarchy of models in simulation.  (pages 255--269)Eric Winsberg
Abduting explanation.  (pages 271--292)Vincent F. Hendricks & Jan Faye
Fictionalism and the logic of “as if” conditionals.  (pages 293--310)Claudio Pizzi
Scientific Modeling: A Multilevel Feedback Process.  (pages 311--325)Jan M. Zytkow

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Paul Thagard
University of Waterloo
Lorenzo Magnani
Nancy Nersessian
Georgia Institute of Technology

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