Model-based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine

by Magnani, Lorenzo; Li, Ping

• ISBN13: 9783540719854
• ISBN10: 3540719857
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine (MBR'06 China), held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China in July 2006. The presentations given at the conference explored how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. Some addressed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology, and stressed the issue of technological innovation and medical reasoning. The various contributions of the book are written by interdisciplinary researchers who are active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology: the most recent results and achievements about the topics above are illustrated in detail in the papers.

Table of Contents

Abduction, Problem Solving, and Practical Reasoning
Animal Abduction: From Mindless Organisms to Artifactual Mediators	p. 3
Communicative Gestures Facilitate Problem Solving for Both Communicators and Recipients	p. 39
The Concept of Fallacy is Empty: A Resource-Bound Approach to Error	p. 69
Abductive Reasoning, Information, and Mechanical Systems	p. 91
Automated Abduction in Scientific Discovery	p. 103
Abduction, Medical Semeiotics and Semioethics: Individual and Social Symptomatology from a Semiotic Perspective	p. 117
Abduction and Modeling in Biosemiotics and Sociosemiotics	p. 131
Reason out Emergence from Cellular Automata Modeling	p. 147
Belief Ascription and De Re Communication	p. 161
Multiagent-Based Simulation in Biology: A Critical Analysis	p. 179
Mathematics through Diagrams: Microscopes in Non-Standard and Smooth Analysis	p. 193
Models, Mental Models, Representations, and Medical Reasoning
Cognition, Environment and the Collapse of Civilizations	p. 217
Cognitive Aspects of Tacit Knowledge and Cultural Diversity	p. 229
The Functional-Analogical Explanation in Chinese Science and Technology: A Case Study of the Theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements	p. 245
Model-Based Reasoning and Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)	p. 261
Model-Based Reasoning in Cognitive Science	p. 273
An Examination of Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine in India	p. 293
Ontology, Artefacts, and Models of Reasoning	p. 315
The Wondering Angels of the Fractal Art	p. 333
Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning
Polynomizing: Logic Inference in Polynomial Format and the Legacy of Boole	p. 349
Abductive Inference and Iterated Conditionals	p. 365
Peircean Pragmatic Truth and da Costa's Quasi-Truth	p. 383
Sliding Mode Motion Control Strategies for Rigid Robot Manipulators	p. 399
Model-Based Chemical Compound Formulation	p. 413
Model-Based Reasoning for Self-Repair of Autonomous Mobile Robots	p. 431
Application of Bayesian Inference to Automatic Semantic Annotation of Videos	p. 447
An Algebraic Approach to Model-Based Diagnosis	p. 467
Cybernard: A Computational Reconstruction of Claude Bernard's Scientific Discoveries	p. 497
Do Computational Models of Reading Need a Bit of Semantics?	p. 511
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