From the reviews: "The 14 chapters in the book are divided into two sections, 'Models, Representation, and Cognition' and 'Abduction, Reasoning, and Cognition.' ... this is an interesting and important collection, well-worth consulting for a broader view of a rapidly expanding academic world." (Ryan D. Tweney, Mind & Society, 2013)

• Scientific Models Are Not Fictions. Model-Based Science as Epistemic Warfare.- An Examination of the Thesis of Models as Representations.- On Animal Cognition: Before and After the Beast-Machine Controversy.- From Mindless Modeling to Scientific Models. The Case of Emerging Models.- The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Greenhouse Effect: A Case Study of a Flawed Analogous Model.- A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Thesis.- From The Received View to the Model-Theoretic Approach.- Cognitive Chance Discovery. From Abduction to Affordance.- A Proposal on Belief, Abduction and Interpretation.- Not by Luck Alone. The Importance of Chance-Seeking and Silent Knowledge in Abductive Cognition.- Cognitive Abduction and the Study of Visual Culture.- Understanding Scientific Inference in the Natural Sciences Based on Abductive Inference Strategies.- Moral, intuitions vs. Moral Reasoning. A Philosophical Analysis of the Explanatory Models Intuitionism Relies on.- Evolutionary Tolerance.

From the reviews: "The 14 chapters in the book are divided into two sections, 'Models, Representation, and Cognition' and 'Abduction, Reasoning, and Cognition.' ... this is an interesting and important collection, well-worth consulting for a broader view of a rapidly expanding academic world." (Ryan D. Tweney, Mind & Society, 2013)

• Scientific Models Are Not Fictions. Model-Based Science as Epistemic Warfare.- An Examination of the Thesis of Models as Representations.- On Animal Cognition: Before and After the Beast-Machine Controversy.- From Mindless Modeling to Scientific Models. The Case of Emerging Models.- The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Greenhouse Effect: A Case Study of a Flawed Analogous Model.- A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Thesis.- From The Received View to the Model-Theoretic Approach.- Cognitive Chance Discovery. From Abduction to Affordance.- A Proposal on Belief, Abduction and Interpretation.- Not by Luck Alone. The Importance of Chance-Seeking and Silent Knowledge in Abductive Cognition.- Cognitive Abduction and the Study of Visual Culture.- Understanding Scientific Inference in the Natural Sciences Based on Abductive Inference Strategies.- Moral, intuitions vs. Moral Reasoning. A Philosophical Analysis of the Explanatory Models Intuitionism Relies on.- Evolutionary Tolerance.

From the reviews: "The 14 chapters in the book are divided into two sections, 'Models, Representation, and Cognition' and 'Abduction, Reasoning, and Cognition.' ... this is an interesting and important collection, well-worth consulting for a broader view of a rapidly expanding academic world." (Ryan D. Tweney, Mind & Society, 2013)

• Scientific Models Are Not Fictions. Model-Based Science as Epistemic Warfare.- An Examination of the Thesis of Models as Representations.- On Animal Cognition: Before and After the Beast-Machine Controversy.- From Mindless Modeling to Scientific Models. The Case of Emerging Models.- The Greenhouse Metaphor and the Greenhouse Effect: A Case Study of a Flawed Analogous Model.- A Study of Model and Representation Based on a Duhemian Thesis.- From The Received View to the Model-Theoretic Approach.- Cognitive Chance Discovery. From Abduction to Affordance.- A Proposal on Belief, Abduction and Interpretation.- Not by Luck Alone. The Importance of Chance-Seeking and Silent Knowledge in Abductive Cognition.- Cognitive Abduction and the Study of Visual Culture.- Understanding Scientific Inference in the Natural Sciences Based on Abductive Inference Strategies.- Moral, intuitions vs. Moral Reasoning. A Philosophical Analysis of the Explanatory Models Intuitionism Relies on.- Evolutionary Tolerance.