Model-Based Reasoning Based on Giere’s Explanation of Model

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Hashemi, Amin | 2014

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 46756 (42)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Philosophy of Science
Advisor(s): Heidari, Moghadam
Abstract:
In the present research, model-based reasoning is introduced and explained based on Giere’s explanation of model. In other word, this research could be regarded as a reconstruction of model in Giere’s books and papers due to prpose a clear explanation of model-based reasoning. In the second chapter, after the introduction, the concept of model in Giere’s distinguished book, “Explainnig Science: A Cognitive Approach” (1988) is introduced and analyzed. In the second chapter, however, the concept of model in Giere’s recent works is traced. “An agent-based account of model” and “focusing on functionality rather than ontology” could be explained as the two important differences between his recent works and the mentioned books. Moreover, the wider approach toward the concept of model in Giere’s recent works is pointed and exemplified in the fifth chapter. And, finally, based on previous chapters, model based reasoning in sixth chapter is introduced and explained
Keywords:
Model-Based Reasoning ; Model-Based Account of Scientific Theories ; Giere's Theory ; Nersessian Theory

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