analogy

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Chevron, M.-F. 1998. Man's special position in nature: The relationship between biological and cultural development. Evolution and Cognition 4: 173—184.

Keywords: analogy • ethnology • evolution • interdisciplinarity.

Conrad, M. 1989. The brain-machine disanalogy. BioSystems 22: 197—213.

Keywords: analogy • brains • machines • models • neurosciences.

Darden, L. 1983. Reasoning by analogy in scientific theory construction. In Michalski, Proceedings of the International Machine Learning Workshop, 32—40.

Keywords: analogy • theory construction.

Elster, J. 1977. Critique des analogies socio-biologiques: Plaidoyer pour l'autonomie des sciences. Revue Française de Sociologie 18: 369—395.

Keywords: analogy • autonomy • critique of sociobiology.

Hendriks-Jansen, H. 1994. Brain-models, mind-models, and models of situated behaviour. AISB Quarterly 87: 29—35.

Keywords: analogy • artificial intelligence • computational models • explanation.

Kuper, A. 2000. If memes are the answer, what is the question? In Aunger, Darwinizing Culture, #—#. [abstract]

Keywords: analogy • critique of memetics • cultural traits • individuation of units • sociobiology.

Lewontin, R.C. 1990. The evolution of cognition. In Osherson/Smith, Invitation to Cognitive Science, 229—240.

Keywords: analogy • evolutionary constraints • form • function • history • homology • inventive stories • reconstruction • selection • skepticism • speculation.

Lewontin, R.C. 1998. The evolution of cognition: Questions we will never answer. In Scarborough/Sternberg/Osherson, An Invitation to Cognitive Science, 107—132.

Keywords: analogy • evolutionary constraints • form • function • history • homology • inventive stories • reconstruction • selection • skepticism • speculation.

Lorenz, K. 1954. Moralanaloges Verhalten geselliger Tiere. Forschung und Wirtschaft 4: 1—23.

Keywords: analogy • ethology • evolutionary ethics • moral behavior • sociality.

Mitchell, M. 1993. Analogy-making as Perception: A Computer Model. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Keywords: analogy • computer modeling • connectionism • perception.

Povinelli, D.J./Bering, J.M./Giambrone, S. 2000. Toward a science of other minds: Escaping the argument by analogy. Cognitive Science 24: 509—541.

Keywords: analogy • evolutionary psychology • other minds.

Riedl, R. 1975. Die Ordnung des Lebendigen: Systembedingungen der Evolution. Hamburg/Berlin/Hamburg: Parey.

Engl. Order in Living Systems: A Systems Analysis of Evolution. New York: Wiley, 1978.

Keywords: analogy • developmental constraints • hierarchy • homology.

Rosen, R. 1968. On analogous systems. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 29: 481—492.

Keyword: analogy.

Rosenberg, A. 1986. Intentional psychology and evolutionary biology. Part I: The uneasy analogy. Behaviorism 14: 15—27. [chc/kli]

Keywords: analogy • intentionality • philosohy of science.

Simon, M.A. 1971. The Matter of Life: Philosophical Problems of Biology. New Haven/London: Yale University Press.

Keywords: analogy • autonomy • biology vs. physical science • ethics • genetics • historical explanations of intentional behavior • mechanism • models • natural history • prediction • progress • taxonomy • theoretical posits.

Van der Meer, J.M. 2000. The engagement of religion and biology: A case study in the mediating role of metaphor in the sociobiology of Lumsden & Wilson. Biology and Philosophy 15: 669—698. [abstract][pdf.]

Keywords: analogy • biological systems • causation • complexity • emergent materialism • hierarchy • human sociobiology • information • metaphor • methodological reduction • ontological reduction • part-whole relations • physical systems • religion and science • self-organization • social systems • theory constitution • theory reduction.

Vosniadou, S./Ortony, A., eds. 1989. Similarity and Analogical Reasoning. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Keywords: analogy • similarity.

Witt, U. 1999. Bioeconomics as economics from a Darwinian perspective. Journal of Bioeconomics 1: 19—34. [abstract]

Keywords: adaptation • analogy • bioeconomics • Darwinian world view • evolutionary economics • evolutionary progress • genetic endowment • growth of consumption • natural selection • optimization • preferences • situational logic • subjectivism.