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CATEGORIES:Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Semi
 nars
SUMMARY:Metaphors in scientific practice: how they functio
 n\, how they sometimes get entrenched\, and how to
  evaluate them - Anna de Bruyckere
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UID:TALK44478AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/44478
DESCRIPTION:In the history of philosophy\, metaphors were long
  thought to be delusive and dangerous\, mere rheto
 rical or linguistic devices that did not have any 
 cognitive importance. In the last few decades\, th
 e philosophy of science literature has opposed thi
 s view and has emphasized metaphors’ creativity an
 d heuristic power. However\, it has failed to pres
 ent a critical account of how metaphor’s cognitive
  dimension can also limit our view onto the phenom
 ena we are trying to understand\, quite apart from
  being very productive inferentially. An account o
 f how metaphors can become so entrenched in though
 t that they become constitutive for how we perceiv
 e the world should allow for critical discussion o
 f both productive and counterproductive features o
 f metaphor usage in scientific discourse. Moreover
 \, if metaphors can indeed be highly consequential
  for scientific perception and cognition\, such an
  account should address the question of how and wh
 en (if at all) to evaluate metaphors. These issues
  will be under discussion with the help of a speci
 fic example from financial economics: ‘financial e
 cosystems’ as a means of conceptualizing the syste
 mic nature of financial risk and stability.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
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