类比建模的贝叶斯分析

通过质疑基于模型推理的认知论题,尝试对在自然化认识论纲领下的认知-历史分析方法进行规范性研究。类比建模是基于模型(Model-based)推理的主要形式之一,类比建模的基本机制主要包括两个部分:一是对模型来源的泛化抽象,二是基于目标域的特征对模型来源进行限制或修正。这两步反复操作,最终构造出适用于目标对象域的模型。模型与对象域的适切性(fitness)则是对以上机制恰当性的基本评价标准,类型层级理论对相似性和差异性的分析,为测度适切性提供了一条可操作的方法。基于类型层级理论,并结合贝叶斯方法可以解释类比建模何以能够提高模型的可信度,以及类比的创造性与科学合理性之间的关系。这一工作对基于模型推理的科学认知论题的提出了一种可能的反驳。

The Bayesian Justification of the Analogical Modeling

I try to argue against Model-based Cognitive Thesis(MCT)by the justification reasearch of the cognitive-history approach.Analogical modeling is one of the major forms of model-based resoning.In general,there two major steps in the process of the analogical modeling.The first one is the generic abstraction of the source domain of the model;The second one is the restrictive of the modeling by the target domain of the model.Implementing these two steps back and forth,it can construct the model which is appropr...