Metaphors and analogies in sciences and humanities : words and worlds / Shyam Wuppuluri, A.C. Grayling, editors.
Wuppuluri, Shyam, editor.; Grayling, A. C., editor.
2022
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Title Metaphors and analogies in sciences and humanities : words and worlds / Shyam Wuppuluri, A.C. Grayling, editors.
ISBN 9783030906887 (electronic bk.)
3030906884 (electronic bk.)
9783030906870
3030906876
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7 doi
Call Number BD190
Dewey Decimal Classification 169
Summary In this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world. Metaphors and Analogies occupy a prominent place in scientific discourses, as they do in literature, humanities and at the very level of our thinking itself. But when misused they can lead us astray, blinding our understanding inexorably. How can metaphors aid us in our understanding of the world? What role do they play in our scientific discourses and in humanities? How do they help us understand and skillfully deal with our complex socio-political scenarios? Where is the dividing line between their use and abuse? Join us as we explore some of these questions in this volume.
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Grayling, A. C., editor.
Series Synthese library ; v. 453.
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Preface
Introduction
Philosophy and Sciences. Part I. Philosophy and Foundations of Sciences. 1. Syntactically recharacterizing analogies, assessing theories of assessing analogies by Jody Azzouni
2. The Metaphoric Sources of Scientific Innovation by Sergio F. Martinez and Natalia Carrillo
3. Science, Metaphors, and Memes by Peter Ludlow
4. Demystifying mysteries. How metaphors and analogies extend the reach of the human mind by Maarten Boudry, Michael Vlerick and Taner Edis
Part II. Mathematics. 5. A two-level model of embodied mathematical thinking: Body schema, body image and language by Valentina Cuccio, Mario Graziano
6. Synthesis and similarity in science: analogy in the application of mathematics and application of mathematics to analogy by Jordi Cat
7. Metaphor and its catenary curves by Alice Major
8. Mathematical Models and Analogical Reasoning by Mark Colyvan
Part III. Theoretical Physics. 9. Analogies and Scientific Imaging by Otavio Bueno
10. Analogies and Metaphors in Physics by Dennis Dieks
11. Is the Brain Analogous to a Quantum Measuring Apparatus? by Paavo Pylkkanen
Part IV. Biology/Cognitive Science. 12. "Decoding information" : The abuse of personification and machine metaphors by David Ritchie
13. The Metaphorical Role of the Histone Code by Gry Oftedal
14. Analogical and non-analogical resemblance in figurative language: a cognitive-linguistic perspective by Francisco Jose Ruiz de Mendoza Ibanez
15. Inner and Outer: FrpAom Skepticism to Understanding by Edward Witherspoon
Humanities. Part V. Social Sciences
16. From words to worlds. How metaphors and language shape mental health by Francesca Brencio
17. Mapping friendship and friendship research: the role of analogies and metaphors by Claus Emmeche
18. Words and worlds of desire: the power of metaphor in framing sexuality by Veronika Koller
19. The Human Condition is an Ocean: Philosophy and the Mediterranean Sea by Annika Doring and Rasmus Grnfeldt Winther
20. Universality and/or cultural specificity of metaphors and analogies? NATIONS as BODIES/PERSONS by Andreas Musolff
21. Metaphors in times of a global pandemic by Brigitte Nerlich
22. Fluffy metaphors of an overheated debate: Why climate change is neither communicated nor understood as an existential threat? by Balint Forgacs and Csaba Pleh
Part VI. Arts and Aesthetics. 23. Mediterranean Sea-Creature: Maritime Metaphor in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Annika Doring and Peregrine Horden
24. How to See: The Gaze in Iris Murdochs Moral Philosophy by Hibi Pendleton
25. From statics to dynamics: Intersemiotic conversion of metaphor and its consequences by Milos Tasic & Dusan Stamenkovic
26. Form, Meaning and Intentionality: The Case of Metaphor in Music by Mihailo Antovic
27. From Philosophy to Architecture to Philosophy: Boundary and Metaphor in Wittgenstein by Nana Last.

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