Cognitive Approach to Model-Based Sciences
Cognitive Approach to Model-Based Sciences

Summary/Abstract: Models are ideal structures and are constructed by the agents or model makers. A scientist as a model maker tries to research, describe and explain the nature and the world by different models. This paper, at first, pursues to distinguish the concept of model-based science and then explain the role of cognitive sciences in the formation of model-based sciences. Cognitive sciences pay attention to the human structural features and human cognitive processes which are important in model-based science. Meanwhile, as the “representation” is one of the features which has been discussed in cognitive sciences, the next steps of the paper is to concentrate on the role of representation in model-based sciences. Realism and rationality, considering representation, in model-based sciences are the last concepts which are scrutinized by the approach of cognitive sciences.

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