R. Bruning and G. Lohmann. Charles Sanders Peirce on creative metaphor: a case study on the conveyor belt metaphor in oceanography. Foundations of Science, 4(3):237--270, 1999.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....is a wave. 4) The human mind is a clock. 5) The ocean is a conveyor belt. The use of these metaphors caused scientists to change their ideas about light (see, for example, 7] sounds (see, for example, 15] the human mind (see, for example, 19] and [10] and the ocean (see, for example, [6]) Most studies about the use of metaphors in science, however, cannot provide a good explanation for their role in conceptual change. A large group of studies limits itself to a description of the phenomenon, without providing theoretical background. Even the more theoretical approaches cope ....

R. Bruning and G. Lohmann. Charles Sanders Peirce on creative metaphor: a case study on the conveyor belt metaphor in oceanography. Foundations of Science, 4(3):237--270, 1999.

....role in scientific development. A famous example is the clock metaphor in psychology, studied by McReynolds in [14] see also the next section) Another remarkable example is the role the metaphor (1) The ocean is a conveyor belt. played in oceanography. Bruning and Lohmann describe in [10] how this metaphor was used to construct an explanation for certain temperature changes. However, when we compare research results of philosophers and historians of science concerning the use of metaphors in scientific inquiry, there seems to be a lot of confusion about a fundamental question as ....

R. Bruning and G. Lohmann. Charles Sanders Peirce on creative metaphor: a case study on the conveyor belt metaphor in oceanography. Foundations of Science, 4(3):237--270, 1999.

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