Model-based reasoning in science and technology

Lorenzo Magnani, Walter Carnielli, Claudio Pizzi (eds)

Springer - Berlin

2010

The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology (MBR09_BRAZIL), held at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, December 2009. The presentations given at the conference explored how scientific cognition, but several other kinds as well, use models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts.