From a Metaphorical Point of View

Sammelwerk mit Beiträgen unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen zur Metapher als "Denkfigur".
Der Herausgeber ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie der Universität Konstanz und ist als Professroe für Erkenntnistheorie an der Universität Zagreb tätig.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: A History of Philosophy Perspective -- 1. From "Clothing" to "Organ of Reason": An Essay on the Theories of Metaphor in German Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment / Otabe, Tanehisa -- 2. Experiments with Metaphors: On the Connection between Scientific Method and Literary Form in Francis Bacon / Schildknecht, Christiane -- Part Two: A Semantic Perspective -- 3. Metaphor and Reference / Elgin, Catherine Z. -- 4. Metaphor as Rearranging the Furniture of the Mind: A Reply to Donald Davidson's "What Metaphors Mean" / Feder Kittay, Eva -- 5. The "Container" Metaphor of Anger in English, Chinese, Japanese and Hungarian / Kövecses, Zoltán -- Part Three: A Cognitive Science Perspective -- 6. Neuronal Processes of Creative Metaphors / MacCormac, Earl R. -- 7. An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Models and Metaphor / Way, Eileen Cornell -- 8. Imagery and Metaphor: The Cognitive Science Connection / Miller, Arthur I. -- 9. How to Make Our Ideas Clear with Metaphors / Radman, Zdravko -- Part Four: A Philosophy of Science Perspective -- 10. Metaphors in Science and Education / Holton, Gerald -- 11. Metaphor in Science / Soskice, Janet Martin / Harré, Rom -- 12. What is Wrong with Talking of Metaphors in Science? / Montuschi, Eleonora -- 13. Metaphors in the Scientific Laboratory: Why are they there and what do they do? / Cetina, Karin Knorr -- 14. Models, Metaphors and Truth / Hesse, Mary -- Part Five: A Theological, Sociological and Political Perspective -- 15. The Motive for Metaphor / McMullin, Ernan -- 16. "Search for the Daimon", "Pact with the Devil" and "Fight of Gods": On Some Metaphors of Goethe in Max Weber's Sociology / González Garda, José M. -- 17. The House as Metaphor / Rigotti, Francesca -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Author Index -- Subject Index