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SUMMARY:Metaphors\, similarities and inferences - Mauricio Suárez (Univer
 sidad Complutense de Madrid and LSE)
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CONTACT:Karin Ekholm
DESCRIPTION:I review and update Max Black's 'interactive' view of metaphor
 . On this view metaphor cannot be reduced to\, or analyzed in terms of\, s
 imilarity. A metaphor does not merely state a similarity\; it rather bring
 s into being a similarity that was not there before. The interactive view 
 has cash value in literary theory\, where it originates\, but its applicat
 ion to science has often been questioned. I defend a version of the intera
 ctive view by providing an account of the role that metaphor plays in fost
 ering inferences from representational sources to targets. The account dra
 ws on historical scholarship on 19th-century electrodynamics\, and I point
  out some relevant links with Mary Hesse's celebrated work on models.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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