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Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Syntactically Recharacterizing Analogies, Assessing Theories of Assessing Analogies (And Making Some Observations About Induction Too)
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    Chapter 2 The Metaphoric Sources of Scientific Innovation
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    Chapter 3 Science, Metaphors, and Memes
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    Chapter 4 Demystifying Mysteries. How Metaphors and Analogies Extend the Reach of the Human Mind
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    Chapter 5 A Two-Level Model of Embodied Mathematical Thinking. Body Schema, Body Image and Language
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    Chapter 6 Synthesis and Similarity in Science: Analogy in the Application of Mathematics and Application of Mathematics to Analogy
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    Chapter 7 Metaphor and Its Catenary Curves
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    Chapter 8 Mathematical Models and Analogical Reasoning
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    Chapter 9 Analogies and Scientific Imaging
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    Chapter 10 Analogies and Metaphors in Physics
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    Chapter 11 Is the Brain Analogous to a Quantum Measuring Apparatus?
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    Chapter 12 “Decoding Information”: The Abuse of Personification and Machine Metaphors
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    Chapter 13 The Metaphorical Role of the Histone Code
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    Chapter 14 Analogical and Non-analogical Resemblance in Figurative Language: A Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective
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    Chapter 15 Inner and Outer: From Skepticism to Understanding
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    Chapter 16 From Words to Worlds. How Metaphors and Language Shape Mental Health
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    Chapter 17 Mapping Friendship and Friendship Research: The Role of Analogies and Metaphors
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    Chapter 18 Words and Worlds of Desire: The Power of Metaphor in Framing Sexuality
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    Chapter 19 The Human Condition Is an Ocean: Philosophy and the Mediterranean Sea
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    Chapter 20 Universality and/or Cultural Specificity of Metaphors and Analogies? NATIONS as BODIES/PERSONS
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    Chapter 21 Metaphors in Times of a Global Pandemic
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    Chapter 22 The Fluffy Metaphors of Climate Science
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    Chapter 23 Mediterranean Sea-Creature: Maritime Metaphor in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Chapter 24 How to See: The Gaze in Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy
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    Chapter 25 From Statics to Dynamics: Intersemiotic Conversion of Metaphor and Its Consequences
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    Chapter 26 Form, Meaning and Intentionality: The Case of Metaphor in Music
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    Chapter 27 From Philosophy to Architecture to Philosophy: Boundary and Metaphor in Wittgenstein
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Chapter title
Demystifying Mysteries. How Metaphors and Analogies Extend the Reach of the Human Mind
Chapter number 4
Book title
Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities
Published by
Springer, January 2022
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_4
Book ISBNs
978-3-03-090687-0, 978-3-03-090688-7
Authors

Boudry, Maarten, Vlerick, Michael, Edis, Taner

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