Publications
Publication details [#5502]
Hallyn, Fernand. 2000. Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences (Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity 1). Dordrecht: Kluwer. 252 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
ISBN
0792365607
Abstract
Table of Contents
R. Harré, et al.: Apparatus as Models of Nature.
J. Meheus: Analogical Reasoning in Creative Problem Solving Processes: Logico-Philosophical Perspectives.
P. Machamer: The Nature of Metaphor and Scientific Description.
F. Hallyn: Atoms and Letters.
G. Simon: Analogies and Metaphors in Keppler.
W. Shea: Looking at the Moon as another Earth. Terrestrial Analogies and Seventeenth-Century Telescopes.
J.-P. van Bendegem: Analogy and Metaphor as Essential Tools for the Working Mathematician.
R.E. Nuñez: Conceptual Metaphor and the Embodied Mind: What Makes Mathematics Possible?
A.I. Miller: Metaphor and Scientific Creativity.
G.C. Cornells: Analogical Reasoning in Modern Cosmological Thinking.
D.M. Bailer-Jones: Scientific Models as Metaphors.
S. Maasen: Metaphors in the Social Sciences: Making Use and Making Sense of Them.