Lorenzo Magnani
5 Publications
Springer handbook of model-based science
Lorenzo Magnani, Tommaso Bertolotti (eds)
Springer - Berlin
2017
The handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning. It highlights the role of models as mediators between theory and experimentation, and as educational devices, as well as their relevance in testing hypotheses and explanatory functions.
Model-based reasoning in science and technology
Lorenzo Magnani (ed)
Springer - Berlin
2014
This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR´012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy. Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts.
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.
Abductive cognition
Lorenzo Magnani
Springer - Berlin
2009
This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition. The book aims at increasing knowledge about creative and expert inferences.
5 Publications