Engineering Concepts: The Interplay between Concept Formation and Modeling Practices in Bioengineering Sciences
- 8 May 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Mind, Culture, and Activity
- Vol. 19 (3) , 222-239
Abstract
This article addresses “concept formation in the wild” through examining the relations between concept formation and physical and computational simulation modeling practices in two research laboratories in the bioengineering sciences. It argues that processes of concept formation and of building distributed cognitive systems are deeply entwined.Keywords
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