Multiple analogies in science and philosophy / Cameron Shelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shelley, Cameron.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 11.

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analogy.

Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.

Evolution (Biology).

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Plato. Republic.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In Multiple analogies in science and philosophy, Shelley provides a thorough account of the cognitive representations and processes that participate in multiple analogy formation. Through analysis of real examples taken from the fields of evolutionary biology, archaeology, and Plato's Republic, Shelley argues that multiple analogies are not simply concatenated single analogies but are instead the general form of analogical inference, of which single analogies are a special case. The result is a truly general cognitive model of analogical inference.Shelley also shows how a cognitive account of multiple analogies addresses important philosophical issues such as the confidence that one may have in an analogical explanation, and the role of analogy in science and philosophy.This book lucidly demonstrates that important questions regarding analogical inference cannot be answered adequately by consideration of single analogies alone.

Contents:

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

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References

Index

The series HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSING.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN:

9786612161292

9781282161290

1282161296

9789027296580

9027296588

OCLC:

55641446