This 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,...

"Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Theoretical and Cognitive Issues" von Lorenzo Magnani ist ein interdisziplinäres Werk, das sich mit der Rolle von Modellen und Modellbildung im wissenschaftlichen und technologischen...

This book employs a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to underline the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition. Its main focus is on the knowledge-enhancing virtues of abduction and on the productive role of scientific...