Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery

Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery

MBR’98
SCHEDULE
Invited presentations
Full presentations
Short presentations
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Lorenzo MAGNANI
Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, ITALY ()
voice: 39-0382-506341-506283 fax: 39-0382-23215 cell phone: 39-347-2469937 home: Via Dante Alighieri 2, 27053 Lungavilla (PV) - ITALY phone: 39-0383-371067
Nancy J. NERSESSIAN
School of Public Policy and College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332 0345 Atlanta, GA, USA ()
Paul THAGARD
Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1 ()
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CONFERENCE SITE:
Collegio Ghislieri, Piazza Ghislieri, 27100 PAVIA, Italy,
phone +39-0382-22044. / PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Ronald Giere, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- David Gooding, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
- Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY
- Joke Meheus, University of Ghent, Ghent, BELGIUM
- Nancy Nersessian, School of Public Policy and College of
Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
- Claudio Pizzi, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, ITALY
- Mario Stefanelli, Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY
- Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CANADA
- Raul Valdes-Perez, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lorenzo Magnani (),
Maria Teresa Oldani ()
Stefania Pernice (),
Giulio Poletti (),
Stefano Rini (),
(Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy),
Mario Stefanelli () (Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy).
Session I: Models, mental models, representations
Session II: Discovery processes and mechanisms
Session III: Mathematical and physical discovery
Session IV: Analogy and thought experiment
Session V: Creative inferences and abduction
MBR’98 is sponsored by
Thursday 17 Dec 98
Morning
Location: Collegio Ghislieri, presso Aula Goldoniana
8.00-8.55 / Registration Sala del Camino
Location: Aula Goldoniana
9.00-9.10 / Welcome by Prof. ROBERTO SCHMID Rector of the University of Pavia
9-10-9.20 / Welcome by Prof. Giorgetto GIORGI Dean of the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
9-20-9.25 / Welcome by Prof. Egle BECCHI Director of the Department of Philosophy
9.25-10.25 / Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: Lorenzo Magnani
Nancy NERSESSIAN
Model-based reasoning in conceptual change
10.25-10.50 / Coffee Break, Refettorio
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session IIa
Discovery processes and mechanisms
Chair: R. Viale / Location: Aula B
Session Ia
Models, mental models, representations
Chair: E. M. Kurz
10.50-11.30 / Eric G. Freedman / Daniela Bailer-Jones
An Executive-Control-process Model of Scientific Discovery / Tracing the Development of Models in the Philosophy of Science
11.30-12.10 / Robert T. Pennock / Creso Franco & Dominique Colinvaux
Can Darwinian Mechanisms Make Novel Discoveries? Learning from Discoveries Made by Evolving Neural Networks / Grasping Mental Models
Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: Nancy Nersessian
12.10-13.10 / Lorenzo MAGNANI
Abduction and hypothesis withdrawal in science
Afternoon
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session IIa
Mathematical and physical discovery
Chair: William C. Wimsatt / Location: Aula B
Session Ib
Models, mental models, representations
Chair: J. A. Myrstad
14.30-15.10 / Luciana Bazzini / Stefania Bandini, Gaetano A. Lanzarone & Alessandra Valpiani
Analogical Reasoning and Learning in Mathematics / Revisiting the Mental Models Theory in Terms of Computational Models Based on Constructive Induction
15.10-15.50 / Selmer Bringsjord / Hidde de Jong
Scientifically Informative Discovery of (Gödel’s) Model-Based Mathematical Discovery / Computer-Supported Model Construction and its Application
Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: Ronald Giere
15.50-16.35 / Joke MEHEUS
Model-based reasoning in creative processes
16.35-16.50 / Coffee Break, Refettorio
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session IVa
Analogy and thought experiment
Chair: P. Thagard / Location: Aula B
Session IIIb
Mathematical and physical discovery
Chair: L. Bazzini
16.50-17.10 / Félix Gustavo Schuster / Andrea Cerroni
Analogical Reasoning in Scientific Discovery / Covariance/Invariance: A Cognitive Heuristic in Einstein’s Relativity Theory Formation
17.10-17.30 / Sandra Visokolskis / Enrico Giannetto
The Incidence of Analogical Procedures in the emergency of Mathematical Concepts. Newton and leibniz: a Case Study / Towards virtual Physics: A Third Millenium New Discipline
17.30-17.50 / Francesco Guala Session Ie
Models, mental models, representations / Angela Pesci
Experiments and Models as Mediators in the Non-Laboratory Sciences / Mathematical Models and Hypothetical Reasoning when Students Approach Proportionality
Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: J. Meheus
17.55-18.55 / Evandro AGAZZI
The construction of models as the hermeneutic step of scientific discovery
19.00-20.00 / Reception:
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Piazza Botta 6, phone 506341/506283
Friday 18 Dec 98
Morning
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session Va
Creative inferences and abduction
Chair: M. Stefanelli / Location: Aula B
Session IIb
Discovery processes and mechanisms
Chair: E. G. Freedman
8.45-9.05 / Ernesto Burattini, Massimo De Gregorio & Guglielmo Tamburrini / Antoine Cornuéjols, Andrée Tiberghien & Gérard Collet
Multiple Representations and Abductive Reasoning in Explanation. A Hybrid Neurosymbolic Approach / Decomposing the Scientific Discovery Process Using Multiple Interpretations of “Notions”
9.05-9.25 / Tanja B. Czech / Riccardo Viale & Daniel Osherson
How Plausible are Plausibility Criteria of Abductive Explanations? / The Diversity Principle and the Little Scientist Hypothesis
9.25-9.45 / Ismael García & José Hernández / Vincent Fella Hendricks & Stig Andur Pedersen
On Autistic Interpretations of Occam’s Razor / Discovery, Knowledge and Reliable Limiting Convergence -the KaLC- Paradigm
Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: Mario Stefanelli
9.45-10.45 / Ronald GIERE
Using models to represent reality
10.45-11.15 / Coffee Break, Refettorio
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session Ic
Models, mental models, representations
Chair: D. Bailer-Jones / Location: Aula B
Session Vb
Creative inferences and abduction
Chair: L. Martignon
11.15-11.55 / Todd Harris / Ferdinando Arzarello, Chiara Micheletti, Federica Olivero & Ornella Robutti
Data Models and Electron Microscopy / Abduction and Conjecturing in Mathematics
11.55-12.35 / Mauricio Suarez / Ilkka Niiniluoto
The Role of Models in the Application of Scientific Theories: Epistemological implications / Abduction and Geometrical Analysis. Notes on Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe
Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: M. Vegetti
12.35-13.15 / Tito ARECCHI
Complexity and the dynamics of scientific discovery
Afternoon
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session Vc
Creative inferences and abduction
Chair: I. Niiniluoto / Location: Aula B
Session Id
Models, mental models, representations
Chair: H. de Jong
14.15-14.55 / John R. Josephson / Johan Arnt Myrstad
Abduction-Prediction model of Scientific Discovery reflected in a prototype System for Model-Based Diagnosis / Models in Perception and Models in Science
14.55-15.35 / A. Keinath & Josef F. Krems / Vasilis Raisis
The Influence of Anomalous Data on Solving Human Abductive Tasks / Expansion and Justification of Models. the Exemplary case of Galileo Galilei
15.35-16.15 / Miriam Reiner & John Gilbert Session IVb Analogy and thought experiment / Eric Winsberg
Epistemological reasources for Thought Experimentation in Science Learning / Models, Simulation and Epistemology
16.15-16.45 / Coffee Break, Refettorio
Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: N. Nersessian
16.45-17.45 / David GOODING
A simulation of model-based reasoning about disparate phenomena
20.00 / Congress Dinner at “Osteria della Madonna”
Via dei Liguri 28 Phone: 302833
Saturday 19 Dec 98
Morning
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session Vd
Creative inferences and abduction
Chair: J. R. Josephson / Location: Aula B
Session IIc
Discovery processes and mechanisms
Chair: C. D. Gooding
8.45-9.25 / Vincent F. Hendricks & J. Faye / Jan M. Zytkow
Abducting Explanation / Scientific Modeling: A Multilevel Feedback Process
9.25-10.05 / Stefan Krauss, Laura Martignon & Ulrich Hoffrage / Francesco Amigoni, Viola Schiaffonati & Marco Somalvico
Simplifyng Bayesian Inference / A Multilevel Architecture of Creative Dynamic Agency
Invited Lectures Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: K. J. Knoespel
10.05-11-00 / Claudio PIZZI
Fictionalism and the logic of ‘as if’ conditionals
11.00-11.30 / Coffee Break, Refettorio
Location: Aula Goldoniana
Session Ve
Creative inferences and abduction
Chair: V. F. Hendricks / Location: Aula B
Session Ie
Models, mental models, representations
Chair: C. Franco
11.30-11.50 / José Hernández-Orallo / 11.30-12.10
Computational ‘Consilience’ as Basis for Theory Formation / Elke M. Kurz & Laura Martignon
11.50-12.10 / Anita Leirfall / Weighing, then Summing: The Triumph and Tumbling of a Modeling practice in Psychology
Reasoning and the Connection to the Spatiotemporal World
Invited Lectures Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: K. J. Knoespel
12.10-13.10 / William C. WIMSATT & Jeffrey C. SCHANK
Discovering emergence in evolutionary dynamics
Afternoon
Invited Lecture Location: Aula Goldoniana Chair: Lorenzo Magnani
14.30-15.30 / Paul THAGARD
Scientific discovery and technological innovation: a cognitive comparison
15.30-15-50 / Pause
15.50-17.30 / Closing Plenary Session
R. Giere, J. R. Josephson, E. M. Kurz , L. Magnani
Discussion