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Foundations of Science Volume 10 Issue 1

Subject Areas: History and Philosophy of Science; ;
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers - Springer Journals
ISSN: 1233-1821
SJR: 27

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Preface

Magnani, Lorenzo; Nersessian, Nancy

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3002-9
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Perceiving the Infinite and the Infinitesimal World: Unveiling and Optical Diagrams in Mathematics

Magnani, Lorenzo; Dossena, Riccardo

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3003-8

Many important concepts of the calculus are difficult to grasp, and they may appear epistemologically unjustified. For example, how does a real function appear in “small” neighborhoods of its points? How does it appear at infinity? Diagrams allow us to overcome the difficulty in constructing...
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Taxonomy Based Models for Reasoning: Making Inferences from Electronic Road Sign Information

Lavalette, Brigitte; Tijus, Charles; Leproux, Christine; Bauer, Olivier

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3004-7

Taxonomy Based modeling was applied to describe drivers’ mental models of variable message signs (VMS’s) displayed on expressways. Progress in road telematics has made it possible to introduce variable message signs (VMS’s). Sensors embedded in the carriageway every 500m record certain variables...
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Remodeling the Past

Mey, Tim

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3005-6

In some of the papers in which she develops and defends the mental modelview of thought experiments in physics, Nersessian expresses the belief that her account has implications for thought experiments in other domains as well. In this paper, I argue, firstly, that counterfactual reasoning has a...
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A Theory of Scientific Model Construction: The Conceptual Process of Abstraction and Concretisation

Portides, Demetris

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3006-5

The process of abstraction and concretisation is a label used for an explicative theory of scientific model-construction. In scientific theorising this process enters at various levels. We could identify two principal levels of abstraction that are useful to our understanding of...
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Connecting Internal and External Representations: Spatial Transformations of Scientific Visualizations

Trafton, J.; Trickett, Susan; Mintz, Farilee

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3007-4

Many scientific discoveries have depended on external diagrams or visualizations. Many scientists also report to use an internal mental representation or mental imagery to help them solve problems and reason. How do scientists connect these internal and external representations? We examined...
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Morphodynamical Abduction. Causation by Attractors Dynamics of Explanatory Hypotheses in Science

Magnani, Lorenzo; Piazza, Matteo

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3008-3

Philosophers of science today by and large reject the cataclysmic and irrational interpretation of the scientific enterprise claimed by Kuhn. Many computational models have been implemented to rationally study the conceptual change in science. In this recent tradition a key role is played by the...
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Visual Models in Analogical Problem Solving

Davies, Jim; Nersessian, Nancy; Goel, Ashok

2005 Foundations of Science

doi:10.1007/s10699-005-3009-2

Visual analogy is believed to be important in human problem solving. Yet, there are few computational models of visual analogy. In this paper, we present a preliminary computational model of visual analogy in problem solving. The model is instantiated in a computer program, called Galatea, which...

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