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Epistemology of scientific inventionCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 21 (3-4): 273-291. 1988.
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Mathematics through diagrams: microscopes in non-standard and smooth analysisIn L. Magnani & P. Li (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Springer. pp. 193--213. 2007.
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50Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values (edited book)Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 2002.There are several key ingredients common to the various forms of model-based reasoning considered in this book. The term ‘model’ comprises both internal and external representations. The models are intended as interpretations of target physical systems, processes, phenomena, or situations and are retrieved or constructed on the basis of potentially satisfying salient constraints of the target domain. The book’s contributors are researchers active in the area of creative reasoning in science and …Read more
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14The appeal of gossiping fallacies and its eco-logical rootsPragmatics and Cognition 18 (2): 365-396. 2010.In this paper we show how some reasoning, though fallacious, can appear to be attractive and useful for beings-like-us. Although they do not provide conclusive evidence to support or reject a certain claim the way scientific statements do, they tell us something interesting about how humans build up their arguments and reasons. First of all, we will consider and investigate three main types of fallacies: argumentum ad hominem, argumentum ad verecundiam, and argumentum ad populum. These three fal…Read more
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Understanding Visual AbductionIn Woosuk Park, Ping Li & Lorenzo Magnani (eds.), Philosophy and Cognitive Science Ii: Western & Eastern Studies, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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1Commentary: Einstein, Prigogine, Barbour, and Their Philosophical RefractionsIn Flavia Santoianni (ed.), The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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19Model-based creative abductionIn L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian & P. Thagard (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Academic/plenum Publishers. pp. 219--238. 1999.
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Semiotic brains and artificial minds. How brains make up material cognitive systemsIn R. Gudwin & J. Queiroz (eds.), Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development, Idea Group. pp. 1--41. 2007.
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72L. Albertazzi, G. J. van Tonder, and D. Vishwanath (eds): Perception Beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes (review)Minds and Machines 22 (1): 53-55. 2012.L. Albertazzi, G. J. van Tonder, and D. Vishwanath (eds): Perception Beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes Content Type Journal Article Pages 53-55 DOI 10.1007/s11023-011-9253-z Authors Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Journal Minds and Machines Online ISSN 1572-8641 Print ISSN 0924-6495 Journal Volume Volume 22 Journal Issue Volume 22, Number 1
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7Philosophy and Geometry: Theoretical and Historical IssuesSpringer. 2001.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 powerful theories of knowledge. Lorenzo Magnani's new book Philosophy and Geometry illustrates the rich intrigue of this fascinating story of human knowledge, providing a new analysis of the ideas of many scholars (including Plato, Proclus, Kant, and Poincaré), and discussing conventionalist and neopositi…Read more
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Animal abduction. From mindless organisms to artifactual mediatorsIn L. Magnani & P. Li (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Springer. pp. 3--37. 2007.
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24Is Abduction Ignorance-Preserving? Conventions, Models, and Fictions in ScienceLogic Journal of the IGPL 21 (6): 882--914. 2013.
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Epistémologie de l'invention scientifiqueCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 21 273--291. 1988.
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20Gossip as a model of inference to composite hypothesesPragmatics and Cognition 22 (3): 309-324. 2014.In this paper we seek an inferential and cognitive model explaining some characteristics of abduction to composite hypotheses. In the first section, we introduce the matter of composite hypotheses, stressing how it is coherent with the intuitive and philosophical contention that a single event can be caused not only by several causes acting together, but also by several kinds of causation. In the second section, we argue that gossip could serve as an interesting model to study the generation of …Read more
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Visual cognition and cognitive modelingIn V. Cantoni (ed.), Human and Machine Vision: Analogies and Divergences, Plenum Publishers. pp. 229--243. 1994.
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9Mimetic minds. Meaning formation through epistemic mediators and external representationsIn A. Loula, R. Gudwin & J. Queiroz (eds.), Artificial Cognition Systems, Idea Group Publishers. pp. 327-357. 2006.
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26Cognitive autoimmunity knowledge, ignorance and self-deceptionLogic Journal of the IGPL 24 (1). 2016.
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83Beyond mind: How brains make up artificial cognitive systems (review)Minds and Machines 19 (4): 477-493. 2009.What I call semiotic brains are brains that make up a series of signs and that are engaged in making or manifesting or reacting to a series of signs: through this semiotic activity they are at the same time engaged in “being minds” and so in thinking intelligently. An important effect of this semiotic activity of brains is a continuous process of disembodiment of mind that exhibits a new cognitive perspective on the mechanisms underling the semiotic emergence of meaning processes. Indeed at the …Read more
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15Multimodal Abduction: External Semiotic Anchors and Hybrid RepresentationsLogic Journal of the IGPL 14 (2): 107-136. 2006.Our brains make up a series of signs and are engaged in making or manifesting or reacting to a series of signs: through this semiotic activity they are at the same time engaged in “being minds” and so in thinking intelligently. An important effect of this semiotic activity of brains is a continuous process of “externalization of the mind” that exhibits a new cognitive perspective on the mechanisms underling the semiotic emergence of abductive processes of meaning formation. To illustrate this pr…Read more
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10Perceiving the infinite and the infinitesimal world: unveiling and optical diagrams and the construction of mathematical conceptsFoundations of Science 10 (1): 7--23. 2005.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 representations of mathematical critical situations and objects. For example, they actually reveal the behavior of a real function not “close to” a point but “in” the point. We are interested in our research…Read more
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14Artificial Minds: How Brains Make UpIn R. Gudwin & J. Queiroz (eds.), Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development, Idea Group. pp. 1. 2007.
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455Multimodal Abduction in Knowledge DevelopmentPreworkshop Proceedings, IJCAI2009International Workshop on Abductive and Inductive Knowledge Development (Pasadena, CA, USA, July 12, 2009). 2009.From the perspective of distributed cognition I will stress how abduction is essentially multimodal, in that both data and hypotheses can have a full range of verbal and sensory representations, involving words, sights, images, smells, etc., but also kinesthetic – related to the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts – and motor experiences and other feelings such as pain, and thus all sensory modalities. The presence of kinesthetic and …Read more
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Agent-Based AbductionIn Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering, College Publications. pp. 415--439. 2006.