MBR026_ROME

How to participate

10th International Conference on

MODEL-BASED REASONING

Epistemology, Artificial Intelligence,
Cognitive Science

WHERE

Department of Philosophy
Sapienza University of Rome
Villa Mirafiori
Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161, Rome

Rooms: II, VI, X

How to reach us

WHEN

17-19 June 2026

KEY DATES

Abstract submission: Jan 10, 2026 February 1, 2026
Acceptance: Feb 20, 2026
Early registration: before Mar 10, 2026
Late registration: before Apr 15, 2026
Conference: 17-19 June 2026
Final papers: before Sep 30, 2026

Submission, registration and fees


Chairs: Selene Arfini, Emiliano Ippoliti, Lorenzo Magnani

Local Organization: Matteo Costa and Emiliano Ippoliti

Organized by

The 10th International Conference on
Model-Based Reasoning: Epistemology, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science
will investigate the logical, epistemological, and cognitive dimensions of modeling practices across science, technology (with particular attention to AI), and cognitive science. This includes both logical and computational approaches to modeling.

We welcome submissions that analyze model-based reasoning from a variety of perspectives: philosophical, logical, epistemological, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational.

Additionally, the conference will address how model-based reasoning contributes to the development and enhancement of human cognitive abilities, whether mental, embodied, hybrid, or tool-assisted.

Relevant research areas

  • Abduction
  • Affordances artifacts and model-based reasoning
  • Brain neuroscience and model-based reasoning
  • Causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction
  • Computational models of visual and simulative reasoning
  • Creative reasoning
  • Distributed cognition embodiment and model-based reasoning
  • Distributed model-based reasoning
  • General theoretical and cognitive issues in model-based reasoning
  • Inferences interaction and duality in logic and language
  • Logical analyses related to model-based reasoning
  • Manipulative reasoning
  • Model-based medical diagnosis
  • Model-based reasoning and economics
  • Model-based reasoning and ethics
  • Model-based reasoning and finance
  • Model-based reasoning and history of philosophy
  • Model-based reasoning and information technology
  • Model-based reasoning and knowledge management
  • Model-based reasoning and language
  • Model-based reasoning and learning
  • Model-based reasoning and semiotics
  • Model-based reasoning and technological artifacts
  • Model-based reasoning in engineering and robotics
  • Model-based reasoning in scientific discovery and conceptual change
  • Model-based reasoning in scientific explanation
  • Models and games of make-believe
  • Models as fictions distortions credible worlds
  • Models of rationality and inference patterns in decision making
  • Ontology of models
  • Simulative modeling
  • Surrogative reasoning
  • The role of diagrammatic reasoning
  • The role of models in scientific and technological thinking
  • Thought experiments
  • Visual analogy
  • Visual spatial imagistic modeling and reasoning