Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences
"Science constructs its objects": is this a metaphor? It does not necessarily mean anyway that the real does not pre-exist. Only that in the final instance it is the Other, of which we know neither the limits nor the figure and to which we only have access through the constructions we make...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
| Series: | Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Apparatus as Models of Nature
- Analogical Reasoning in Creative Problem Solving Processes: Logico-Philosophical Perspectives
- The Nature of Metaphor and Scientific Description
- Atoms and Letters
- Analogies and Metaphors in Kepler
- Looking at the Moon as another Earth. Terrestrial Analogies and Seventeenth-Century Telescopes
- Analogy and Metaphor as Essential Tools for the Working Mathematician
- Conceptual Metaphor and the Embodied Mind: What Makes Mathematics Possible ?
- Metaphor and Scientific Creativity
- Analogical Reasoning in Modern Cosmological Thinking
- Scientific Models as Metaphors
- Metaphors in the Social Sciences: Making Use and Making Sense of Them