Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences

This collection of papers contains historical case studies, systematic contributions of a general nature, and applications to specific sciences. The bibliographies of the contributions contain references to all central items from the traditions that are relevant today. While providing access to contemporary views on the issue, the papers illustrate the wide variety of functions of metaphors and analogies, as well as the many connections between the study of some of these functions and other subjects and disciplines.

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Apparatus as Models of Nature; R. Harré, et al. Analogical Reasoning in Creative Problem Solving Processes: Logico-Philosophical Perspectives; J. Meheus. The Nature of Metaphor and Scientific Description; P. Machamer. Atoms and Letters; F. Hallyn. Analogies and Metaphors in Kepler; G. Simon. Looking at the Moon as another Earth. Terrestrial Analogies and Seventeenth-Century Telescopes; W. Shea. Analogy and Metaphor as Essential Tools for the Working Mathematician; J.-P. van Bendegem. Conceptual Metaphor and the Embodied Mind: What Makes Mathematics Possible? R.E. Núñez. Metaphor and Scientific Creativity; A.I. Miller. Analogical Reasoning in Modern Cosmological Thinking; G.C. Cornelis. Scientif Models as Metaphors; D.M. Bailer-Jones. Metaphors in the Social Sciences: Making Use and Making Sense of Them; S. Maasen.