Making Truth: Metaphor in Science by Theodore L. Brown
A new perspective on how scientists reason about the world, design and interpret experiments and communicate with one another and with the larger society outside science.
Making Truth
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Offers a perspective on how scientists reason about the world, design and interpret experiments and communicate with one another and with the larger society outside science. This book demonstrates the presence and the power of metaphorical thought.
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"Anyone with a serious interest in science must read this book. In it, Brown demonstrates that metaphorical thought is central in all branches of science, just as it is in everyday life and mathematics. Particles as waves, time as a spatial dimension, gravity as the curvature of space-time, ion channels, protein folding. All these crucial scientific metaphors--and many more--allow us to understand science in terms of our embodied experience, build comprehensible models, make predictions, and perform precise calculations." -- George Lakoff, coauthor of Metaphors We Live By, Philosophy in the Flesh, and Where Mathematics Comes From "This is an important book. Scientists will find it thought-provoking, and science teachers will find it a gold mine. Indeed, this book could be transforming for science education at the elementary, high school, and introductory college level." -- Linda S. Wilson, president emerita of Radcliffe College and coauthor of Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension
About Theodore L. Brown
Theodore L. Brown is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also served as director of the Beckman Institute, vice chancellor for research, and interim vice chancellor for academic affairs. He is the author of Energy and the Environment and a coauthor of Chemistry: The Central Science.
Table of Contents
Scientific thought and practice; introduction to metaphor; the conceptual theory of metaphor; the classical atom; the modern atom; molecular models in chemistry and biology; protein folding; cellular-level metaphors; global warming; science's metaphorical foundations - the social in science.
Additional information
CIN0252028104G
9780252028106
0252028104
Making Truth: Metaphor in Science by Theodore L. Brown
Used - Good
Hardback
University of Illinois Press
2003-03-17
232
N/A
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