Philosophy and Cognitive Science II: Western & Eastern Studies

223 Pages·2015·2.71 MB·English

by  Lorenzo Magnani

Studies in Applied Philosophy,
Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Lorenzo Magnani
Ping Li
Woosuk Park Editors
Philosophy
and Cognitive
Science II
Western & Eastern Studies
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology
and Rational Ethics
Volume 20
Serieseditor
Lorenzo Magnani,University of Pavia,Pavia, Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
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Universidad NacionalAutónoma deMéxico (UNAM), Coyoacan, Mexico
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CentreCavaillès,CNRS—Ecole NormaleSupérieure,Paris, France
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LundUniversity, Lund,Sweden
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Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON,Canada
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University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC,Canada
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Woosuk Park
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Philosophy and Cognitive
Science II
Western & Eastern Studies
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Editors
Lorenzo Magnani WoosukPark
Department ofPhilosophy and Schoolof Humanities andSocial Sciences
Computational PhilosophyLaboratory Korea AdvancedInstitute of Science and
University of Pavia Technology
Pavia Daejeon
Italy Korea,Republic of (SouthKorea)
PingLi
Department ofPhilosophy
SunYat-sen University
Guangzhou
China
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Preface
Today,therelationshipsbetweenAsiaandtheWesternworldmakeheadlinesonly
when they concern economic deals, folk-ideological confrontations, or divergent
ideas on how to solve international crises. The cultural and, more specifically,
academical links are frequently disregarded. This book aims at being an argument
against such systematic lack of interest for the results of collaborations between
Western and Eastern intellectuals and academics: what emerges from the juxta-
position of papers of different geo-cultural origins—but dealing with the same
issues—is sometimes a novelapproach, which takes advantage of the multifaceted
sensibilities inherited by the scholarly legacies that contributed to the debate. This
volume is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the international
conference Philosophy and Cognitive Science (PCS2013), held at Sun Yat-sen
University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, in November 2013 (chairs Lorenzo Magnani
and Ping Li) and at the International Workshop Visual Abduction or Abductive
Vision? held at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology),
Daejeon, South Korea, in October/November 2013 (chair Woosuk Park).
The papers by Athanassios Raftopoulos “Reframing the Problem of Cognitive
Penetrability,” Xiang Chen “The Emergence and Development of Causal
Representations,” Luigi Pastore, Sara Dellantonio, Claudio Mulatti, and Remo Job
“On the Nature and Composition of Abstract (Theoretical) Concepts: The X-
Ception Theory and Methods for Its Assessment,” Selene Arfini and Lorenzo
Magnani “An Eco-Cognitive Model of Ignorance Immunization,” Woosuk Park
“Towards a Caricature Model of Science,” and Lorenzo Magnani “Violence and
Abductive Cognition Epistemology and Ethics Entangled” were presented at
PCS2013.ThepapersbyLorenzoMagnani“UnderstandingVisualAbduction.The
NeedoftheEco-CognitiveModel,”CameronShelley“BiomorphismandModelsin
Design,” Jeongmin Lee, “The Correspondence Principle, Formal Analogy, and
Scientific Rationality,” Jun-Young Oh, YooShin Kim, Chun-Hwey Kim, Byeong-
Mee Min, Yeon-A Son “Understanding Galileo’s Inquiries about the Law of
Inertia,” Athanassios Raftopoulos “Abductive Inference in Late Vision,” and
WoosukPark“FromVisualAbductiontoAbductiveVision”werepresentedatthe
KAIST Workshop on abduction.
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vi Preface
Previous volumes prepared the basis for the realization of PCS2013 and of
KAIST Vision Workshop, as meetings explicitly devoted to the conjunction of
WesternandEasternstudies.Thesevolumesalsooriginatedfrominternationaljoint
research projects, which succeeded in establishing a first relationship between the
two worlds in the area of philosophy and cognitive science. Model-Based
Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, edited by L. Magnani, N.J. Nersessian, and
P.Thagard (KluwerAcademic/PlenumPublishers,NewYork,1999), based onthe
paperspresentedatthefirst“model-basedreasoning”internationalconference,held
at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy in December 1998, has been translated into
Chinese, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000. Abduction, Reason,
and Science by L. Magnani was translated by Dachao Li and Yuan Ren and
published by Guangdong People’s Publishing House, Guangzhou, in 2006. Other
volumes, Science, Cognition, and Consciousness, edited by P. Li et al. (JiangXi
People’s Press, Nanchang, China, 2004, published in Chinese and English),
PhilosophicalInvestigationsfromaPerspectiveofCognition,editedbyL.Magnani
and P. Li (Guangdong People’s Publishing House, Guangzhou, China, 2006,
published in Chinese), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and
Medicine, edited by L. Magnani and P. Li (Springer, Berlin/New York, 2007),
derived from the following previous conferences: “Model-Based Reasoning in
Science and Medicine” (MBR06_CHINA, held at Sun Yat-sen University,
Guangzhou, China, July 2006), the first “Philosophy and Cognitive Science”
international conference (PCS2004, held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou,
China, June 2004) and the second “Philosophy and Cognitive Science” interna-
tional conference (PCS2011, held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China,
May 2011).
The presentations given at the Guangzhou and Daejeon meetings addressed
various recent topics at the crossroad of philosophy and cognitive science, espe-
cially taking advantage of both Western and Eastern research. The selected papers
contained in the proceedings mainly focus on the following areas: abductive cog-
nition, visualization in science, the cognitive structure of scientific theories, the
nature and functions of models, scientific representation, mathematical represen-
tation in science, model-based reasoning, analogical reasoning, moral cognition,
cognitive niches, and evolution. The various contributions of the book are written
by interdisciplinary researchers who are active in the area of philosophy and/or
cognitive science.
The editors wish to express their appreciation to the members of the Scientific
Committee of PCS2013 for their suggestions and assistance: Xiang Chen,
Department of Philosophy, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA,
USA—Roman Frigg, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method,
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK—Albrecht
Heeffer, Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Ghent,
Belgium—Remo Job, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science,
University of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy—Ping Li, Department of Philosophy,
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China—Lorenzo Magnani, Department of
Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy—Woosuk Park,
Preface vii
KoreaAdvancedInstituteofScienceandTechnology,Guseong-dong,Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, Republic of Korea—Mauricio Suárez, Department of Logic and
PhilosophyofScience, Faculty ofPhilosophy, Complutense UniversityofMadrid,
Madrid, Spain—Ryan D. Tweney, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green
State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA—Xiaolong Wan, Department of
Philosophy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei,
China—Guolin Wu, Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, South
China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China—Changle Zhou, Department
of Cognitive Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China—Jing Zhu, Department
of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Special thanks also go to Tommaso Bertolotti and Selene Arfini for their con-
tribution in the preparation of this volume. The meeting PCS2013 and KAIST
Vision Workshop, and thus indirectly this book, was made possible through the
generous financial support, respectively, of Sun Yat-sen University, ZhanJiang
Chemical Industrial Incorporated Corporation, the MIUR (Italian Ministry of the
University), KAIST, South Korea, and University of Pavia, Italy. Their support is
gratefully acknowledged. The preparation of the volume would not have been
possible without the contribution of resources and facilities of the Computational
Philosophy Laboratory and of the Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section,
University of Pavia.
Pavia, Italy Lorenzo Magnani
Guangzhou, China Ping Li
Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Woosuk Park
January 2015
Contents
Part I International Conference Philosophy
and Cognitive Science (PCS2013)
Reframing the Problem of Cognitive Penetrability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Athanassios Raftopoulos
The Emergence and Development of Causal Representations. . . . . . . . 21
Xiang Chen
On the Nature and Composition of Abstract (Theoretical) Concepts:
The X-Ception Theory and Methods for Its Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Luigi Pastore, Sara Dellantonio, Claudio Mulatti and Remo Job
An Eco-Cognitive Model of Ignorance Immunization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Selene Arfini and Lorenzo Magnani
Towards a Caricature Model of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Woosuk Park
Violence and Abductive Cognition: Epistemology
and Ethics Entangled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Lorenzo Magnani
Part II International Workshop Visual Abduction
or Abductive Vision? KAIST (Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology)
Understanding Visual Abduction: The Need of the Eco-Cognitive
Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
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From Visual Abduction to Abductive Vision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Woosuk Park
Abductive Inference in Late Vision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Athanassios Raftopoulos
The Correspondence Principle, Formal Analogy,
and Scientific Rationality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Jeongmin Lee
Understanding Galileo’s Inquiries About the Law of Inertia . . . . . . . . 193
Jun-Young Oh, YooShin Kim, Chun-Hwey Kim,
Byeong-Mee Min and Yeon-A Son
Biomorphism and Models in Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Cameron Shelley