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54An approximate approach to belief revisionLogic Journal of the IGPL 20 (2): 486-496. 2012.It is well known that the computational complexity of propositional knowledge base revision is at the second level of polynomial hierarchy. A way to solve this kind of problems is to introduce approximate algorithms. In this paper, an approximate approach is introduced for belief change. Operators, which satisfy the AGM rational postulates, are defined to change belief sets or belief bases. Furthermore, approximate algorithms to implement the revision of finite belief bases are presented. The ti…Read more
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Disembodying minds, externalising minds: how brains make up creative scientific reasoningIn Lorenzo Magnani & Claudia Casadio (eds.), Model Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues, Springer International Publishing. pp. 185--202. 2006.
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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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153The 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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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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29Commentary: Einstein, Prigogine, Barbour, and Their Philosophical RefractionsIn Flavia Santoianni (ed.), The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy: A Philosophical Thematic Atlas, Springer Verlag. pp. 249-251. 2015.
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66La moralidad distribuida y la tecnología. Cómo las cosas nos hacen moralesIsegoría 34 63-78. 2006.En el presente artículo se sostiene que, a través de la tecnología, las personas podemos simplificar y resolver tareas morales incluso en presencia de información incompleta o de una capacidad insuficiente para la acción moral. Muchas cosas externas, normalmente concebidas como inertes desde un punto de vista moral, pueden considerarse lo que aquí se denominarán mediadores morales. Por lo tanto, no todas las herramientas morales están en el interior de nuestra cabeza, sino que muchas están distr…Read more
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Il convegno internazionale "Peirce in Italia"Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 46 (4): 781. 1991.Review
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1Animal 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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Epistémologie de l'invention scientifiqueCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 21 (3-4): 273--291. 1988.
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128Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (edited book)Kluwer/Plenum. 1999.The book Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, aims to explain how specific modeling practices employed by scientists are productive methods of ...
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70Gossip 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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Multimodal abduction in knowledge developmentIn Multimodal Abduction in Knowledge Development, Preworkshop Proceedings, Ijcai2009international Workshop On Abductive and Inductive Knowledge Development (pasadena, Ca, Usa, July 12, 2009). pp. 21--26. 2009.
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106This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, ...
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217Beyond 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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67Knowledge as DutyProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 10 289-294. 2008.This paper aims at presenting a concise treatment of some key themes of my recent book Morality in a technological world. Knowledge as duty (Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). In recent times, non-human beings, objects, and structures – for example computational tools and devices - haveacquired new moral worth and intrinsic values. Kantian tradition in ethics teaches that human beings do not have to be treated solely as “means”, or as “things”, that is in a merely instrumen…Read more
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Semiotic brains and artificial minds. How brains make up material cognitive systemsIn Ricardo Gudwin & Jo?O. Queiroz (eds.), Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development, Idea Group. pp. 1--41. 2006.
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32Artificial Minds: How Brains Make UpIn Ricardo Gudwin & Jo?O. Queiroz (eds.), Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development, Idea Group. pp. 1. 2006.
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110Philosophy and Cognitive Science Ii: Western & Eastern Studies (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2015.The status of abduction is still controversial. When dealing with abductive reasoning misinterpretations and equivocations are common. What did Peirce mean when he considered abduction both a kind of inference and a kind of instinct or when he considered perception a kind of abduction? Does abduction involve only the generation of hypotheses or their evaluation too? Are the criteria for the best explanation in abductive reasoning epistemic, or pragmatic, or both? Does abduction preserve ignoranc…Read more
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Agent-Based AbductionIn Model Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering, College Publications. pp. 415--439. 2006.