id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_nfvmldkx6zh4znnk6tf6mvn6ou Nancy J. Nersessian Modelā€Based Reasoning in Distributed Cognitive Systems 2006 8 .pdf application/pdf 4077 248 44 Model-based Reasoning in Distributed Cognitive Systems* context of biomedical engineering research laboratories, where problem solving involves using physical models. artifacts, I argue that reasoning with model-systems is a constraint satisfaction process involving co-construction, developing and using theories (Cartwright 1983; Giere 1988; Hesse 1963; Magnani, Nersessian, and Thagard 1999; how to understand scientific problem solving, in general, and model-based reasoning, in particular, as embedded in the model-based reasoning practices in the biomedical engineering research laboratories. laboratory aptly refer to the processes of constructing and manipulating these model systems as "putting a thought "Generic abstraction" appears to play a central role in the model-based reasoning in science and These devices and model-systems are what sociocultural studies of science refer to as the "material culture" of the community, but they also function as what The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science. ./cache/work_nfvmldkx6zh4znnk6tf6mvn6ou.pdf ./txt/work_nfvmldkx6zh4znnk6tf6mvn6ou.txt