Making truth : metaphor in science

Author(s)

• Brown, Theodore L.

Bibliographic Information

Making truth : metaphor in science

Theodore L. Brown

University of Illinois Press, 2003

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-209) and index

Contents of Works

• Scientific thought and practice
• Introduction to metaphor
• The theory of conceptual metaphor
• The classical atom
• The modern atom
• Molecular models in chemistry and biology
• Protein folding
• Cellular-level metaphors
• Global warming
• Science's metaphorical foundations: the social in science

Details

• NCID: BA62235277
• ISBN:
  • 0252028104
• LCCN: 2002011212
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Urbana
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 215 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q175
  • DC21 : 501
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Metaphor
  • LCSH : Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge