Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science

This 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. The Springer Handbook merges philosophical, cognitive and epistemological perspectives on models with the more practical needs related to the application of this tool across various disciplines and practices. The result is a unique, reliable source of information that guides readers toward an understanding of different aspects of model-based science, such as the theoretical and cognitive nature of models, as well as their practical and logical aspects. The inferential role of models in hypothetical reasoning, abduction and creativity once they are constructed, adopted, and manipulated for different scientific and technological purposes is also discussed. Written by a group of internationally renowned experts in philosophy, the history of science, general epistemology, mathematics, cognitive and computer science, physics and life sciences, as well as engineering, architecture, and economics, this Handbook uses numerous diagrams, schemes and other visual representations to promote a better understanding of the concepts. This also makes it highly accessible to an audience of scholars and students with different scientific backgrounds. All in all, the Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science represents the definitive application-oriented reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning.

Table of Contents

Part A Theoretical Issues in Models
Chapter 1 The Ontology Of Models
Chapter 2 Models And Theories
Chapter 3 Models And Representation
Chapter 4 Models And Explanation
Chapter 5 Models And Simulations

Part B Theoretical and Cognitive Issues on Abduction and Scientific Inference
Chapter 6 Reorienting The Logic Of Abduction
Chapter 7 Patterns Of Abductive Inference
Chapter 8 Forms Of Abduction And An Inferential Taxonomy
Chapter 9 Magnani’S Manipulative Abduction

Part C The Logic of Hypothetical Reasoning, Abduction, and Models
Chapter 10 The Logic Of Abduction: An Introduction
Chapter 11 Qualitative Inductive Generalization And Confirmation
Chapter 12 Modeling Hypothetical Reasoning By Formal Logics
Chapter 13 Abductive Reasoning In Dynamic Epistemic Logic
Chapter 14 Argumentation And Abduction In Dialogical Logic
Chapter 15 Formal (In)Consistency, Abduction And Modalities

Part D Model-Based Reasoning in Science and the History of Science
Chapter 16 Metaphor And Model-Based Reasoning In Mathematical Physics
Chapter 17 Nancy Nersessian’S Cognitive-Historical Approach
Chapter 18 Physically Similar Systems – A History Of The Concept
Chapter 19 Hypothetical Models In Social Science
Chapter 20 Model-Based Diagnosis
Chapter 21 Thought Experiments In Model-Based Reasoning

Part E Models in Mathematics
Chapter 22 Diagrammatic Reasoning In Mathematics
Chapter 23 Deduction, Diagrams And Model-Based Reasoning
Chapter 24 Model-Based Reasoning In Mathematical Practice
Chapter 25 Abduction And The Emergence Of Necessary Mathematical Knowledge

Part F Model-Based Reasoning in Cognitive Science
Chapter 26 Vision, Thinking, And Model-Based Inferences
Chapter 27 Diagrammatic Reasoning
Chapter 28 Embodied Mental Imagery In Cognitive Robots
Chapter 29 Dynamical Models Of Cognition
Chapter 30 Complex Versus Complicated Models Of Cognition
Chapter 31 From Neural Circuitry To Mechanistic Model-Based Reasoning

Part G Modelling and Computational Issues
Chapter 32 Computational Aspects Of Model-Based Reasoning
Chapter 33 Computational Scientific Discovery
Chapter 34 Computer Simulations And Computational Models In Science
Chapter 35 Simulation Of Complex Systems
Chapter 36 Models And Experiments In Robotics
Chapter 37 Biorobotics

Part H Models in Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences
Chapter 38 Comparing Symmetries In Models And Simulations
Chapter 39 Experimentation On Analogue Models
Chapter 40 Models Of Chemical Structure
Chapter 41 Models In Geosciences
Chapter 42 Models In The Biological Sciences
Chapter 43 Models And Mechanisms In Cognitive Science
Chapter 44 Model-Based Reasoning In The Social Sciences

Part I Models in Engineering, Architecture, and Economical and Human Sciences
Chapter 45 Models In Architectural Design
Chapter 46 Representational And Experimental Modeling In Archaeology
Chapter 47 Models And Ideology In Design
Chapter 48 Restructuring Incomplete Models In Innovators Marketplace On Data Jackets
Chapter 49 Models In Pedagogy And Education
Chapter 50 Model-Based Reasoning In Crime Prevention
Chapter 51 Modeling In The Macroeconomics Of Financial Markets
Chapter 52 Application Of Models From Social Science To Social Policy
Chapter 53 Models And Moral Deliberation