What makes a good metaphor in science?

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Autor(a) principal: Martinez Muñoz, Sergio Fernando
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Signo (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/18145
Resumo: Metaphors have mainly been discussed and studied as rhetorical devices in human communication and in literary studies. In philosophy and science, metaphors have been considered important as heuristic tools, for aesthetic embellishment, or in helping communicate complex ideas more simply; but as having no epistemic force. Philosophers and scientists are cautioned to avoid metaphors as explanatory resources. However, I present several examples where metaphors have played a significant role in the advancement of scientific knowledge and not as mere heuristic aids or decoration. This tension is worth addressing. I use recent work in the cognitive sciences to argue that some metaphors play a significant role organizing and coordinating scientific practices in relation to goals of inquiry, thereby promoting epistemic values (scientific explanations and more generally, understanding) in the process. Such metaphors therefore perform a key cognitive role. Good metaphors in the epistemic sense, then, are those that play such a cognitive role.
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spelling What makes a good metaphor in science? O que faz uma boa metáfora na ciência?metáfora cientificametáfora e raciocínio científicosmetáforas científicas como normasscientific metaphormetaphor and scientific reasoningscientific metaphors as normsMetaphors have mainly been discussed and studied as rhetorical devices in human communication and in literary studies. In philosophy and science, metaphors have been considered important as heuristic tools, for aesthetic embellishment, or in helping communicate complex ideas more simply; but as having no epistemic force. Philosophers and scientists are cautioned to avoid metaphors as explanatory resources. However, I present several examples where metaphors have played a significant role in the advancement of scientific knowledge and not as mere heuristic aids or decoration. This tension is worth addressing. I use recent work in the cognitive sciences to argue that some metaphors play a significant role organizing and coordinating scientific practices in relation to goals of inquiry, thereby promoting epistemic values (scientific explanations and more generally, understanding) in the process. Such metaphors therefore perform a key cognitive role. Good metaphors in the epistemic sense, then, are those that play such a cognitive role.As metáforas têm sido discutidas e estudadas principalmente como dispositivos retóricos na comunicação humana e nos estudos literários. Na filosofia e na ciência, as metáforas foram consideradas importantes como ferramentas heurísticas, para embelezamento estético ou para ajudar a comunicar ideias complexas de forma mais simples; mas não como tendo força epistêmica. Filósofos e cientistas são advertidos a evitar metáforas como recursos explicativos. No entanto, apresento vários exemplos em que as metáforas têm desempenhado um papel significativo no avanço do conhecimento científico e não como meras ajudas heurísticas ou decorativas. Vale a pena abordar essa tensão. Eu uso trabalhos recentes nas ciências cognitivas para argumentar que algumas metáforas desempenham um papel significativo na organização e coordenação de práticas científicas em relação aos objetivos da investigação, promovendo assim valores epistêmicos (explicações científicas e, de maneira mais geral, compreensão) no processo. Tais metáforas, portanto, desempenham um papel cognitivo fundamental. Boas metáforas no sentido epistêmico, então, são aquelas que desempenham tal papel cognitivo.Edunisc2023-02-27info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/1814510.17058/signo.v48i91.18145Signo; v. 48 n. 91 (2023): Metáfora na ciência: entre cognição e discurso; 23-301982-2014reponame:Signo (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)instname:Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)instacron:UNISCporhttps://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/18145/10829Copyright (c) 2023 Signoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMartinez Muñoz, Sergio Fernando2023-02-27T17:28:31Zoai:ojs.online.unisc.br:article/18145Revistahttp://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signohttp://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/oairgabriel@unisc.br||revistasigno.unisc@gmail.com1982-20140101-1812opendoar:2023-02-27T17:28:31Signo (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online) - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv What makes a good metaphor in science?
O que faz uma boa metáfora na ciência?
title What makes a good metaphor in science?
spellingShingle What makes a good metaphor in science?
Martinez Muñoz, Sergio Fernando
metáfora cientifica
metáfora e raciocínio científicos
metáforas científicas como normas
scientific metaphor
metaphor and scientific reasoning
scientific metaphors as norms
title_short What makes a good metaphor in science?
title_full What makes a good metaphor in science?
title_fullStr What makes a good metaphor in science?
title_full_unstemmed What makes a good metaphor in science?
title_sort What makes a good metaphor in science?
author Martinez Muñoz, Sergio Fernando
author_facet Martinez Muñoz, Sergio Fernando
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Martinez Muñoz, Sergio Fernando
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv metáfora cientifica
metáfora e raciocínio científicos
metáforas científicas como normas
scientific metaphor
metaphor and scientific reasoning
scientific metaphors as norms
topic metáfora cientifica
metáfora e raciocínio científicos
metáforas científicas como normas
scientific metaphor
metaphor and scientific reasoning
scientific metaphors as norms
description Metaphors have mainly been discussed and studied as rhetorical devices in human communication and in literary studies. In philosophy and science, metaphors have been considered important as heuristic tools, for aesthetic embellishment, or in helping communicate complex ideas more simply; but as having no epistemic force. Philosophers and scientists are cautioned to avoid metaphors as explanatory resources. However, I present several examples where metaphors have played a significant role in the advancement of scientific knowledge and not as mere heuristic aids or decoration. This tension is worth addressing. I use recent work in the cognitive sciences to argue that some metaphors play a significant role organizing and coordinating scientific practices in relation to goals of inquiry, thereby promoting epistemic values (scientific explanations and more generally, understanding) in the process. Such metaphors therefore perform a key cognitive role. Good metaphors in the epistemic sense, then, are those that play such a cognitive role.
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