作者: N. J. Nersessian

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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, Pa …

For some time now the philosophy of science has been undergoing a major transfor- mation. It began when the ‘received view’ of scientific knowledge -that developed by logical positivists and their in …

Einstein often expressed the sentiment that "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility, " and that science is the means through which we comprehend it. However, nearly every …

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 u …