MBR015_ITALY - MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Models and Inferences: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues

June 25, 2015 - June 27, 2015
Fondazione Mediaterraneo, Sestri levante http://www.mediaterraneo.org/english/

Via Portobello 14
Sestri Levante 16039
Italy

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Claudia Casadio
University of Chieti/Pescara
Lorenzo Magnani
University of Pavia

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MODEL-BASED REASONING
IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Models and Inferences: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues


(Seventh International MBR Conference)

LINK to MBR015_ITALY MAIN PAGE


MBR'015_ITALY

Sestri Levante, Italy,

WEB CAM: http://www.comune.sestri-levante.ge.it:94/main.htm

June 25-27, 2015

Centro Congressi Mediaterraneo
http://www.mediaterraneo.org/english/


Chair: Lorenzo Magnani

Last Updated: June 22,  2014

MBR COMMUNITY WEB SITE
http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/cpl2/


 Sponsors:
University of Pavia,
 University of Chieti/Pescara,
  Funds MIUR-PRIN 2012
Ministero dell'Università della Ricerca Scientifica e 

Tecnologica, Italy (http://www.miur.it/
Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS)


GENERAL INFORMATION


From Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 of June 2015 (three days), the International Conference
MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
will be held at Centro Congressi Mediaterraneo in the town of Sestri Levante (Province of Genoa),
Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea), Italy. The conference is promoted by the Department of Humanities,
Philosophy Section of the University of Pavia - IT (Scient. Ref Prof. Lorenzo Magnani),
and by the Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences of the
University of Chieti/Pescara - IT (Scient. Ref. Prof. Claudia Casadio)
.

CONFERENCE SITE

Mediaterraneo Servizi srl,
CENTRO CONGRESSI MEDIATERRANEO
(sponsored by EU, Comune di Sestri Levante, Provincia di Genova)
Via Portobello
- Convento dell’Annunziata  - Baia del Silenzio [Silence Bay] 16039 Sestri Levante (GE)  Italy Tel. +39 0185 458066 Fax  +39 0185 42663
email: [email protected]
http://www.mediaterraneo.org/english/
map:http://liguria.angloinfo.com/maps/622/Sestri+Levante+Map.html
 

The conference derives from an international research cooperation which is centered on the PRIN2012 Funds (Italian Ministry of University, MIUR) and it is promoted by the Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, of the University of Pavia (Italy) and the Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences of the University of Chieti/Pescara (Italy). It continues the topics and traditions of past conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98, "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01, "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering: Abduction, Visualization, and Simulation" MBR'04, and "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine", MBR06_CHINA, "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery, MBR09_BRAZIL, "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Theoretical and Cognitive Issues", MBR012_ITALY.

The previous volumes derived from those conferences are:

- L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery,
  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
http://www.springer.com/mathematics/applications/book/978-0-306-46292-4
(Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000).

- L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9

- L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning,
  Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.
http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4

P. Li, X. Chen, Z. Zhang, and H. Zhang (eds.)(2004), Science, Cognition, and Consciousness, JiangXi People's Press, Nanchang, China.
- L. Magnani and Li. Ping (eds.) (2006), Philosophical Investigations from a Perspective of Cognition, Guangdong People’s Publishing House, Guangzhou, (published in Chinese).

- L. Magnani (2006) (ed.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering. Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Logic, College Publications, London. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Model-Based-Reasoning-Science-Engineering/dp/1904987230

- L. Magnani and P. Li (eds.) (2007), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”, Vol. 64, Springer, Berlin/New York. http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-3-540-71985-4

- L. Magnani, W. Carnielli, C. Pizzi (eds.) (2010) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery, Series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”, Vol. 314, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin.
http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-15222-1

- L. Magnani (ed.) (2014) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Theoretical and Cognitive Issues, Series “Sapere”, Vol. 8, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin. http://www.springer.com/philosophy/epistemology+and+philosophy+of+science/book/978-3-642-37427-2

Selected papers of the previous conferences were published in international journals (Philosophia, Foundations of Science, The Logic Journal of the IGPL).

PROGRAM


The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science, technology, and cognitive science, including logical and  computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine the role of abduction, visualization, simulation, and other aspects in model-based reasoning from philosophical, logical, epistemological, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. The conference is also devoted to examine the impact of Model-Based Reasoning research in the enhancement of various kinds of human cognitive skills, mental, hybrid, manipulative, etc.  

RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS


We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to
model-based reasoning in science and human cognition as presented in the following list:

    - general theoretical and cognitive issues
    - models as fictions, distortions, credible worlds
    - models and games of make-believe
    - ontology of models
    - affordances, artifacts, and model-based reasoning
    - brain, neuroscience, and model-based reasoning
    - abduction
    - logical analyses related to model-based reasoning
    - inferences, interaction and duality in logic and language
   
    - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning
    - simulative modeling
    - the role of diagrammatic representations
    - computational models of visual and simulative reasoning
    - causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction
    - visual analogy
    - thought experiments
    - manipulative reasoning
    - distributed model-based reasoning
    - distributed cognition, embodiment, and model-based reasoning
    - models of rationality and inference patterns in decision making    

    - model-based reasoning in  scientific discovery and conceptual change
    - model-based reasoning and ethics
    - model-based reasoning and semiotics
    - model-based reasoning in scientific explanation
    - model-based medical diagnosis
    - model-based reasoning in engineering and robotics
    - model-based reasoning and technological artifacts
    - model-based reasoning and knowledge management
    - model-based reasoning and information technology
    - the role of models in scientific and technological thinking


THE CONFERENCE IS SPONSORED BY

- University of Pavia, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, Italy (http://www.unipv.it/)
- University of Chieti/Pescara, Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences, Italy (
http://www.unich.it/ )
- Research  Funds PRIN2012, MIUR (Ministero dell'Università della Ricerca Scientifica
  e Tecnologica), Italy (http://www.miur.it/): National Coordinator, L. Magnani (Unit of the University of Pavia),
  10 Research Units - University of: Pavia, Rome La Sapienza, Rome 3, Milan Cattolica, Chieti/Pescara, Pisa, Cagliari, Macerata, Trieste, Sassari.
- Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS)
 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Atocha Aliseda, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
- Tommaso Bertolotti,
Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, ITALY
- Silvana Borutti,
Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, ITALY
- Otávio Bueno, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
- Mirella Capozzi, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome, ITALY
- Walter Carnielli, Department of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, State University of Campinas, BRAZIL
- Claudia Casadio, Department of Psychology, Università di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
- Carlo Cellucci, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome, ITALY
- Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, INDIA
- Roberto Feltrero, Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at UNED (Spanish Open University), Madrid, SPAIN
- Steven French, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Marcello Frixione, Department of Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, ITALY
- Dov Gabbay, Department of Computer Science, King's College,  London, UK
- Marcello Guarini, Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, CANADA
- Ricardo Gudwin,  Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 
  State University of Campinas, BRAZIL
- Albrecht Heeffer, Centre for History of Science, Ghent University, BELGIUM.
- Michael Hoffmann, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
- Decio Krause, Departamento de Filosofia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, BRAZIL
- Ping Li, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. CHINA
- Giuseppe Longo, CREA, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, FRANCE and Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology,  Tufts University School of
  Medicine, Boston, USA
- Angelo Loula, Department of Exact Sciences, State University of Feira de Santana, BRAZIL
- Shangmin Luan, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. CHINA
- Rossella Lupacchini, Università di Bologna, Bologna, ITALY
- Lorenzo Magnani,
Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section  & Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, ITALY
- Joke Meheus, Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte, Universiteit Gent, Gent, BELGIUM
- Luís Moniz Pereira, Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Woosuk Park, Humanities & Social Sciences, KAIST, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA
- Demetris Portides, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS
- Joao Queiroz, Institute of Arts and Design. Federal University of Juiz de Fora, BRAZIL
- Shahid Rahman, U.F.R. de  Philosophie, Université Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FRANCE
- Oliver Ray, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM  
- Colin Schmidt, Le Mans University & ENSAM-ParisTech, FRANCE
- Gerhard Schurz, Institute for Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine University, GERMANY
- Cameron Shelley, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CANADA
- Nik Swoboda, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrd, SPAIN
- Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CANADA
- Barbara Tversky, Department of Psychology, Stanford University  and Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Ryan D. Tweney, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA
- Riccardo Viale, Scuola Nazionale di Amministrazione, Rome, and Fondazione Rosselli, Turin, ITALY
- John Woods, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, CANADA



INVITED SPEAKERS AND PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

(to be completed)

SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS AND SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

All submitted extended abstracts will be carefully refereed. The precise format of the conference will be fixed after we have an idea of the number of accepted papers. We expect approximately 60/80 contributed presentations some of 40 and others of 20 minutes.  There will be several invited presentations of 1 hour. A selected subset will be of accepted papers invited for inclusion (subject to additional refereeing) in a book, which will constitute an advanced handbook for researchers in this area. The book will be published by an international publishing house. Moreover another selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject to additional refereeing) in special issues of suitable international journals like for example Logic Journal of the IGPS and Foundations of Science, which already hosted articles presented at MBR98, MBR01, MBR04, MBR04, MBR06_CHINA, MBR09_BRAZIL, MBR012_ITALY.

To participate to the conference authors must submit an electronic version - formatted in Microsoft Word or .RTF, or .PDF (in this last case please include source - .DOC, .TEX or other file) - of an extended abstract (total word count approximately 1000-1200). The file must also contain a 300 WORDS abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet.

No later than
January 2, 2015 please send electronicallythe extended abstract
to Prof.Lorenzo Magnani

[email protected]


SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

No later than January 17, 2015: please send electronically a two pages symposium proposal
(3-5 presentations)
to Prof. Lorenzo Magnani
[email protected]
 

STUDENT GRANTS

Students and other participants are encouraged to submit, besides the extended
abstract, an application for a grant to attend the conference.
There will be some available grants for participants in the amount of 300 euros each
one. The only condition in order to get the grant is to prove that without it,
his or her participation is impossible. Applications for grants should contain name,
affiliation, position and the reason why the grant is important for the participant.
It should be sent to
[email protected] 
by January 31, 2015.

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