Metaphor And Knowledge
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Author | : Ken Baake |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003-07-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780791457436 |
Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts.
Author | : Sabine Maasen |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0415208025 |
The study focuses on three major case studies: the spread of Darwin's phrase "struggle for existence" in the popularizing literature in turn of the century Germany; the reception of Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolution" and its identification with the term "paradigm" in the sciences and humanities; and the diffusion of the concept of "chaos" from scientific to everyday discourses.
Author | : Andrew S. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2022-04-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 110883728X |
Introduces the diverse roles metaphors play in the life sciences and highlights their significance for theory, communication, and education.
Author | : F. R. Ankersmit |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780792317913 |
Metaphor lies at the heart of the contemporary debate in aesthetics, semantics and the philosophy of science. It is generally recognised now that metaphor is not an obfuscation of the truth (as so many philosophers since Plato have argued); on the contrary, it is essential that we consider metaphor if we strive for an optimal understanding of how truth is gained both in science and in our everyday dealings with reality. Hence, metaphor is not of interest only for the literary theorists, but for all those who wish to understand science and how to grasp the structure of our social world. This volume presents eleven essays on the role of metaphor in philosophy, poetry, semiotics, art, literary criticism, economics, medical science and in political theory. Through the use of metaphor, the contributors provide a unique and exciting picture of these disciplines.
Author | : Ken Baake |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0791486745 |
Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science.
Author | : E. Cornell Way |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9401579415 |
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychol ogy through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimental, and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. The problems posed by metaphor and analogy are among the most challenging that confront the field of knowledge representation. In this study, Eileen Way has drawn upon the combined resources of philosophy, psychology, and computer science in developing a systematic and illuminating theoretical framework for understanding metaphors and analogies. While her work provides solutions to difficult problems of knowledge representation, it goes much further by investigating some of the most important philosophical assumptions that prevail within artificial intelligence today. By exposing the limitations inherent in the assumption that languages are both literal and truth-functional, she has advanced our grasp of the nature of language itself. J.R.F.
Author | : Frank Rudolf Ankersmit |
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Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Daniel C. Strack |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019-02-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1498547915 |
Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks “context,” and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.
Author | : Sabine Maasen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134620306 |
This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike.
Author | : R. Holme |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2003-12-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0230503004 |
Understanding metaphor raises key questions about the relationship between language and meaning, and between language and mind. This book explores how this understanding can impact upon the theory and practice of language teaching. After summarising the cognitive basis of metaphor and other figures of speech, it looks at how this knowledge can inform classroom practice. Finally, it sets out how we can use these insights to re-appraise language learning theory in a way that treats it as consonant with the cognitive nature of language.