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63Sharing representations and creating chances through cognitive niche construction. The role of affordances and abductionIn S. Iwata, Y. Oshawa, S. Tsumoto, N. Zhong, Y. Shi & L. Magnani (eds.), Communications and Discoveries From Multidisciplinary Data, Springer. pp. 3--40. 2008.
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1Abduction, Practical Reasoning, and Creative Inferences in Science (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.
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125L. 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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Prefiguring ethical chances: the role of moral mediatorsIn Y. Oshawa & S. Tsumoto (eds.), Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making: Data-Based Interaction of Human and Artificial Intelligence, Springer. pp. 205--229. 2006.
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Abduction and cognition in human and logical agentsIn S. Artemov, H. Barringer, A. Garcez, L. Lamb & J. Woods (eds.), We Will Show Them: Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay, College Publications. pp. 225--258. 2005.
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69Is Abduction Ignorance-Preserving? Conventions, Models, and Fictions in ScienceLogic Journal of the IGPL 21 (6): 882--914. 2013.
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88Conjectures and manipulations: External representations in scientific reasoningMind and Society 3 (1): 9-31. 2002.What I call theoretical abduction (sentential and model-based) certainly illustrates much of what is important in abductive reasoning, especially the objective of selecting and creating a set of hypotheses that are able to dispense good (preferred) explanations of data, but fails to account for many cases of explanations occurring in science or in everyday reasoning when the exploitation of the environment is crucial. The concept of manipulative abduction is devoted to capture the role of action…Read more
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70External diagrammatization and iconic brain co-evolutionSemiotica 2011 (186): 213-238. 2011.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.” 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 underlying the semiotic emergence of abductive processes of meaning formation. I consider this process of externalization interplay …Read more
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50Mimetic minds. Meaning formation through epistemic mediators and external representationsIn Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin & Jo?O. Queiroz (eds.), Artificial Cognition Systems, Idea Group Publishers. pp. 327-357. 2006.
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87Contemporary finance as a critical cognitive nicheMind and Society 14 (2): 273-293. 2015.Cognitive niche construction theory provides a new comprehensive account for the development of human cultural and social organization with respect to the management of their environment. Cognitive niche construction can be seen as a way of lessening complexity and unpredictability of a given environment. In this paper, we are going to analyze economic systems as highly technological cognitive niches, and individuate a link between cognitive niche construction, unpredictability and a particular …Read more
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22Discovering and Communicating through Multimodal AbductionIn S. Iwata, Y. Oshawa, S. Tsumoto, N. Zhong, Y. Shi & L. Magnani (eds.), Communications and Discoveries From Multidisciplinary Data, Springer. pp. 41--62. 2008.
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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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108Multimodal 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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27Smart Abducers as Violent AbducersIn & C. Pizzi W. Carnielli L. Magnani (ed.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, . pp. 51--82. 2010.
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An Eco-Cognitive Model of Ignorance ImmunizationIn Woosuk Park, Ping Li & Lorenzo Magnani (eds.), Philosophy and Cognitive Science Ii: Western & Eastern Studies, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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1133Multimodal 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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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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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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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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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.