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Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Western & Eastern Studies

Lorenzo Magnani, Ping Li (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 290 Seiten

2012 | 2012
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-29927-8 (ISBN)

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The book addresses a number of recent topics at the crossroad of philosophy and cognitive science, taking advantage of eastern and western perspectives and conceptions that emerged and were discussed at the PCS2011 Conference recently held in Guangzhou. The ever growing cultural exchange between academics and intellectuals belonging to different cultures is reverberated by the juxtaposition of papers, which aim at investigating new facets of crucial problems in philosophy: the role of models in science and the fictional approach; chance seeking dynamics and how affordances work; abductive cognition; visualization in science; the cognitive structure of scientific theories; scientific representation; mathematical representation in science; model-based reasoning; analogical reasoning; moral cognition; cognitive niches and evolution.

Scientific Models Are Not Fictions. Model-Based Science as Epistemic Warfare.- An Examination of the Thesis of Models as Representations.- On Animal Cognition: Before and After the Beast-Machine Controversy.- From Mindless Modeling to Scientific Models. The Case of Emerging Models.- The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Greenhouse Effect: A Case Study of a Flawed Analogous Model.- A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Thesis.- From The Received View to the Model-Theoretic Approach.- Cognitive Chance Discovery. From Abduction to Affordance.- A Proposal on Belief, Abduction and Interpretation.- Not by Luck Alone. The Importance of Chance-Seeking and Silent Knowledge in Abductive Cognition.- Cognitive Abduction and the Study of Visual Culture.- Understanding Scientific Inference in the Natural Sciences Based on Abductive Inference Strategies.- Moral, intuitions vs. Moral Reasoning. A Philosophical Analysis of the Explanatory Models Intuitionism Relies on.- Evolutionary Tolerance.

lt;p>From the reviews:

"The 14 chapters in the book are divided into two sections, 'Models, Representation, and Cognition' and 'Abduction, Reasoning, and Cognition.' ... this is an interesting and important collection, well-worth consulting for a broader view of a rapidly expanding academic world." (Ryan D. Tweney, Mind & Society, 2013)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.7.2012
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Zusatzinfo	X, 290 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	584 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Abductive Cognition • affordances • Analogical Reasoning • Cognitive Discovery • Kognitionswissenschaft • Model-Based Reasoning • Philosophie • Scientific Representation
ISBN-10	3-642-29927-X / 364229927X
ISBN-13	978-3-642-29927-8 / 9783642299278
Zustand	Neuware