Metaphor and knowledge : the challenges of writing science / Ken Baake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baake, Ken.

Series:

SUNY Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication

SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technical writing.

Communication of technical information.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science.

Contents:

""METAPHOR AND KNOWLEDGE""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: The Problem with “Rules� and Why Words Will Not Sit Still""; ""HARMONICS: USING MUSIC THEORY TO EXPLAIN HOW METAPHOR WORKS IN SCIENCE""; ""STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK""; ""WHAT IS THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE?""; ""2. A Technical Writer at the Think Tank""; ""ESTABLISHING ETHOS WITH AN “INITIAL IMPRESSIONS� REPORT""; ""A TECHNICAL WRITER�S BALANCING ACT: CAPTURE THE EXCITEMENT OF RESEARCH, BUT AVOID HYPE""

""WRITING FOR THE INSTITUTE�S BULLETIN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TECHNICAL WRITERS CANNOT FIND THEIR BEARINGS TOWARD AN AUDIENCE""""3. Metaphor: Constituting or Decorating Theory in Science""; ""RHETORIC AT THE SFI: A QUALIFIED ACCEPTANCE""; ""THE MEANING OF METAPHOR""; ""METAPHORS IN MOTION: HOW THEY WORK""; ""METAPHOR AND SCIENCE""; ""FEAR OF PERSUASION AND METAPHORIC HARMONICS""; ""RHETORICAL ALTERNATIVES TO METAPHOR IN SCIENCE""; ""4. Metaphors and Mathematics: A Shared Tradition of Constituting Knowledge in Science""; ""THE METAPHORS OF INFORMATION AS THE NEW MATERIALITY""

""REPRESENTING REALITY""""PLATONIC ARGUMENTS FOR THE SUPREMACY OF MATHEMATICS""; ""METAPHOR FOR UNDERSTANDING A NON-ALGORITHMIC WORLD""; ""MAKING SLOPPY IDEAS RIGOROUS""; ""NO RATIONAL METHOD OF HAVING GOOD IDEAS""; ""SFI METAPHORS AS THEORY CONSTITUTIVE OR LITERARY? A TALE OF TWO TERMS""; ""METAPHOR HARMONICS: WHO INTENDS THE BEE TO BE YELLOW?""; ""METAPHOR HARMONICS: EMERGENCE, THE BRAIN, AND NEURAL NETWORKS""; ""EQUILIBRIUM AND THE PRISONER�S DILEMMA""; ""5. Science Writers Looking for Their Audience""; ""STYLE AND ELOQUENCE IN SFI WRITING""

""A MATTER OF INVENTION: WRITING FOR SCIENTISTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC""""INCOMMENSURABILITY: TRYING TO CROSS DISCIPLINES""; ""6. “Complexity�: An Etymology Leading to a Discussion of Whether it is a Metaphor or Something Else""; ""THE WORD “COMPLEX� IN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY""; ""“COMPLEXITY� ARRIVES IN SANTA FE""; ""THE NEW “COMPLEXITY� RETURNS TO OLD HAUNTS""; ""IS “COMPLEXITY� A METAPHOR?""; ""7. Managing Metaphor Harmonics and Other Challenges of Making Knowledge in Science""; ""SPEAK CAREFULLY AND CARRY A PARADIGM SHIFT""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""

""B""""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8674-5

1-4175-3134-7

OCLC:

56066753