Auteur: L. Magnani

This volume explores abduction (inference to explanatory hypotheses), an important but neglected topic in scientific reasoning. My aim is to inte- grate philosophical, cognitive, and computational …

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The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the Interna- tional Conference Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (MBR’98), held at the Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, …

Information technology has been, in recent years, under increasing commercial pressure to provide devices and systems which help/ replace the human in his daily activity. This pressure requires the …

Philosophers have studied geometry since ancient times. Geometrical knowledge has often played the role of a laboratory for the philosopher’s conceptual experiments dedicated to the ideation of …