metaphor

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Ahouse, J.C. 1998. The tragedy of a priori selectionism: Dennett and Gould on adaptationism. Biology and Philosophy 13: 359—391.

Keywords: adaptationism • algorithm • atavism • contingency • deep homology • Dennett • exaptation • Gould • metaphor • punctuated equilibrium • selectionism • spandrels.

Dawkins, R. 1995. Myth, metaphor and hypothesis: How anthropomorphism defeats science (reply). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 349: 219—224.

Keywords: anthropomorphism • hypothesis • metaphor • myth.

Gilbert, S.F. 1979. The metaphorical structuring of social perceptions. Soundings 62: 166—186.

Keywords: metaphor • social perceptions.

Khalil, E.L. 2000. Types of metaphor and identificational slips ineconomic discourse. Research in the history of economic thought and methodology 20: #—#.

Keywords: economic discourse • history of economics • metaphor.

Lakoff, G./Johnson, M.L. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Keyword: metaphors.

Levit G.S./Gudo, M./Krumbein, W.E. 2002. Mechanizismus im 21. Jahrhundert. Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie 9: 97—124.

Keywords: mechanicism • mechanism • metaphor.

Lewontin, R.C. 1963. Models, mathematics, and metaphors. Synthese 15: 274—296.

Keywords: mathematical biology • metaphors • modelling.

Mikkelson, G.M. 1997. Methods and metaphors in community ecology: The problem of defining stability. Perspectives on Science 5: 481—498.

Keywords: community ethology • metaphors • methods.

Robert, J.S. 2001. Interpreting the homeobox: Metaphors of gene action and activation in development and evolution. Evolution and Development 3: 287—295.

Keywords: gene action • gene activation • homeobox • metaphor.

Ruse, M. 1998. Bringing in culture: How the study of metaphor enriches evolutionary epistemology. In Derksen, The Promise of Evolutionary Epistemology, 157—175.

Keywords: balance of nature • epistemic values • ESS • inference rules • metaphor • naturalism • objectivity • subjectivity.

Tauber, A.I./Chernyak, L., . 1991. Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Reality. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Keywords: history of immunology • metaphor • Metchnikoff.

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.

Weber, M. 2001. Kommentar zu Alan Holland: Eine Kritik von Informationsmetaphern in der Genetik. In Weber/Hoyningen-Huene, Ethische Probleme in den Biowissenschaften, #—#.

Keywords: genetics • information • metaphors.