Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy

Name: Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Erschienen am 17. Juli 2003

XVI, 167 Seiten

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Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy
Editorial page
Title page
LCC page
Table of contents
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The problem of multiple analogies
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Analogy as induction
1.3. Analogy as shared structure
1.4. Overview
2. Multiple analogies and ``old fourlegs''
2.1. Analogies in science
2.2. Single analogies in the Multiconstraint theory
2.3. Analogies in evolutionary biology
2.4. Coelacanth: The living fossil
2.5. Implications for multiple analogies
2.5.1. Structural consistency
2.5.2. Corroboration
2.5.3. Abstraction and exemplification
2.5.4. Supplementation
2.5.5. Disanalogy and extension
2.6. Summary
3. Multiple analogies from the Mesozoic
3.1. Analogies and evolutionary theory
3.2. Ceratopsians: The horned dinosaurs
3.3. Archaeopteryx: The first bird
3.4. Implications for multiple analogies
3.4.1. Visual representations
3.4.2. Evolutionary scenarios
3.4.3. Fecundity
3.5. Summary
4. Multiple analogies in archaeology
4.1. Analogies in archaeology
4.2. Peruvian pots
4.3. Greek figurine legs
4.4. Clovis mammoth harvesting
4.5. Implications for multiple analogies
4.5.1. Visual imagery
4.5.2. Specificity
4.5.3. Supplementation
4.6. Analogies in archaeological inference
4.7. Summary
5. Multiple analogies in Plato's Republic
5.1. Analogies in Plato's philosophy
5.2. The function of the soul
5.3. Health and justice
5.4. Plato's condemnation of the poet
5.5. Implications for multiple analogies
5.5.1. Complementation and narrative representation
5.5.2. Specificity
5.5.3. Supplementation
5.6. Plato on multiple analogies
5.7. Summary
6. Modelling multiple analogies
6.1. Multiple analogies in perspective
6.2. Structural consistency and independence
6.3. Purpose and planning
6.4. Representational modalities
6.4.1. Verbal
6.4.2. Visual
6.4.3. Narrative
6.5. Processes
6.5.1. Abstraction and exemplification
6.5.2. Supplementation
6.5.3. Specificity
6.6. Philosophy of science
6.6.1. Disanalogy and extension
6.6.2. Fecundity and theory change
6.6.3. Evolutionary scenarios
6.6.4. Archaeological scenarios
6.6.5. Discovery versus justification
6.7. Concluding remarks
Historical review
a.1. Plato
a.2. Aristotle
a.3. Bacon
a.4. Mill
a.5. Shared structure theory
Notes
-24pt
References
Index
The series HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSING

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