Aspects Of Metaphor In Physics

Author : Hanna Pulaczewska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110915938

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Aspects of Metaphor in Physics by Hanna Pulaczewska Pdf

With reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of forms taken by metaphor in physics. A diachronic presentation of the views hitherto advanced on the role of metaphor in the natural sciences provides an introduction to the crucial issues. By means of a broad definition of metaphor as a lexical, semantic, and conceptual phenomenon, metaphor is identified at various levels of physics discourse: in metatheory and methodology; in the sociology of the origin and evolution of science; in theory and conceptualization, including physics models; in education; and finally in linguistic expression, including terminology. Whereas historians and theoreticians of science reduce the question of metaphor in physics to the question of the role of scientific models, where one area of physics provides concepts and structures for another area, the perspective adopted here is that of cognitive semantics. The study inquires into the way in which concept-formation and terminology in physics avails itself of the metaphoric bent immanent in everyday language, conceptualizing abstract ideas in spatial terms, inanimate things as intelligent, measurable phenomena in terms of the visual. Attention is also given to the way in which metaphoric processes make it possible to integrate new knowledge into old and sometimes obsolete structures rather than eliminating those structures altogether.

Author : Hanna Pulaczewska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Physik - Metapher
ISBN : OCLC:246645967

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Author : Roger Stanley Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0349118582

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Physics as Metaphor by Roger Stanley Jones Pdf

Author : Roger Stanley Jones
Publisher : Plume
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Physics
ISBN : UCLA:L0065851685

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Physics as Metaphor by Roger Stanley Jones Pdf

Author : Aura Heydenreich,Klaus Mecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110481259

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Physics and Literature by Aura Heydenreich,Klaus Mecke Pdf

Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions – forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines. The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.

Author : Anke Beger,Thomas H. Smith
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261441

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How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science by Anke Beger,Thomas H. Smith Pdf

Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of science, and how scientific ideas are promoted and popularized. With an accessible introduction to theory and method this book prepares scientists, science teachers, and science writers to take advantage of recent shifts in metaphor theories and methods. Metaphor specialists will find theoretical issues explored in studies of bacteriology, cell reproduction, marine biology, physics, brain function and social psychology. We see the degree of conscious or intentional use of metaphor in shaping our conceptual systems and constraining inferences. Metaphor sources include social structure, embodied experience, abstract or mathematical formulations. The results are sometimes innovative hypotheses and robust conclusions; other times pedagogically useful, if inaccurate, stepping stones or, at worst, misleading fictions. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : Roger S. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0704504774

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Physics as Metaphor by Roger S. Jones Pdf

Author : Hermann Haken,Anders Karlqvist,Uno Svedin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642777110

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The Machine as Metaphor and Tool by Hermann Haken,Anders Karlqvist,Uno Svedin Pdf

The chapters in this book centre around one main theme, the concept of the machine and its use as metaphor in a variety of contexts. This concept is deeply rooted in western culture and is frequently used to interpret complex systems in nature and society. With the advent of electronic computers, the machine metaphor applied to thinking and the brain has becOIne even more pertinent. The idea of a machine has changed over time. In this book these transformations are made trans parent, various aspects of the machine metaphor are discussed and limitations and pitfalls of the metaphor are elaborated. The chapters are written in a non-technical fashion and are accessible to a large readership of scientists and also laymen interested in the scientific per spectives and logical foundations of the machine concept that has been so influential in western thinking. The idea of the book has its origin in a workshop held at the Sci entific Station in Abisko, Sweden, in May 1990, where several of the present authors participated. The meeting was organized and spon sored by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Re search (FRN). Since 1983, the FRN has actively promoted a series of such annual events at Abisko, all of which have been devoted to the exploration of various aspects of complex systems and their evolution.

Author : Gary Zukav
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780061926389

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The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav Pdf

“The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Gary Zukav’s timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction to quantum physics ever written. Scientific American raves: “Zukav is such a skilled expositor, with such an amiable style, that it is hard to imagine a layman who would not find his book enjoyable and informative.” Accessible, edifying, and endlessly entertaining, The Dancing Wu Li Masters is back in a beautiful new edition—and the doors to the fascinating, dazzling, remarkable world of quantum physics are opened to all once again, no previous mathematical or technical expertise required.

Author : W. H. Leatherdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Analogy
ISBN : UCAL:B3613707

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The Role of Analogy, Model, and Metaphor in Science by W. H. Leatherdale Pdf

Author : Zdravko Radman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110867831

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From a Metaphorical Point of View by Zdravko Radman Pdf

Author : Z. Radman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401722544

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Metaphors: Figures of the Mind by Z. Radman Pdf

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself. Rather it is concerned with the argument from metaphor. In other words, it is about what I think we can learn from metaphor and the possible consequences of this lesson for a more adequate understanding, for instance, of our mental processes, the possibilities and limitations of our reasoning, the strictures of propositionality, the cognitive effect of fictional projections and so on. In this sense it is not, strictly speaking, a contribution to metaphorology; instead, it is an attempt to define the place of metaphor in the world of overall human intellectual activity, exemplary thematized here in the span that ranges from problems relating to the articulation of meanings up to general issues of creativity. Most of the aspects discussed, therefore, are examined not so much for the sake of gaining some new knowledge about metaphor (work conducted in the »science of metaphor« is presently so huge that an extra attempt to spell out another theory of metaphor may have an infiatory effect); the basic strategy of this book is to view metaphor within the complex of language usage and language competence, in human thought and action, and, finally, to see in what philosophically relevant way it improves our knowledge of ourselves. Certainly, by adopting this basic strategy we also simultaneously increase our knowledge of metaphors, of their functions and importance.

Author : Chad Orzel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781416572299

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How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel Pdf

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Author : Luis A. Campos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226418742

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Radium and the Secret of Life by Luis A. Campos Pdf

Long before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicists, botanists, and geneticists were excited thinking that radium held the key to the secret of life. Luis Campos examines the many and varied connections between early radioactivity research and understandings of vitality, both scientific and popular, in the first half of the twentieth century. As some physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element and its radioactive brethren in lifelike terms ( decay, half-life, and frequent reference to the natural selection and evolution of the elements), many biologists of the period eagerly sought to bring radium into the biological fold. They did so with experiments aimed at elucidating some of the most basic phenomena of life, including metabolism and mutation, and often saw in these phenomena properties that in turn reminded them of the new element. These initially provocative links between radium and life proved remarkably productive in experimental terms and ultimately led to key biological insights into the origin of life, the nature of mutation, and the structure of the gene. "Radium and the Secret of Life" traces the half-life of this connection between the living and the radioactive, while also exploring the approach to history that emerges when one follows a trail of associations that, asymptotically, never quite disappears."

Author : Francesca Ervas,Elisabetta Gola,Maria Grazia Rossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110549928

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Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education by Francesca Ervas,Elisabetta Gola,Maria Grazia Rossi Pdf

This collection of papers presents some recent trends in metaphor studies that propose new directions of research on the embodied cognition perspective. The overall volume, in particular, shows how the embodied cognition still remains a relevant approach in a multidisciplinary research on the communicative side of metaphors, by focusing on both comprehension processes in science as well as learning processes in education.