Overview

Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory. In recent years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented or outlined. In this volume, authors of some of the most important new approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications, thus allowing the reader to survey some of the prominent ongoing developments in this field. These authors include Robert Fogelin, Susan Haack, Jaakko Hintikka (with Gabriel Sandu), Bipin Indurkhya and Eva Kittay (with Eric Steinhart). Their stance is in the main constructive rather than critical; but frequent comparisons of different views further facilitate the reader's overview. In the other contributions, metaphor is related to the problems of visual representation (Noel Carroll), to the open class test (Avishai Margalit and Naomi Goldblum) as well as to Wittgenstein's idea of 'a way of life' (E.M. Zemach).

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Author:   Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1994
Volume:   238
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.421kg
ISBN:  

9789048143856

ISBN 10:   9048143853
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

“Dry Truth and Real Knowledge”: Epistemologies of Metaphor and Metaphors of Epistemology.- Metaphors, Similes and Similarity.- Generating Metaphors from Networks: A Formal Interpretation of the Semantic Field Theory of Metaphor.- Metaphor as Change of Representation: An Interaction Theory of Cognition and Metaphor.- Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning.- Visual Metaphor.- Metaphors in an Open-Class Test.- Metaphors and Ways of Life.

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Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

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