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Entanglements between language, science, and worldviews (2020)

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This introduction offers a synoptic overview of some of Evelyn Fox Keller's influential works on the role and nature of metaphor in science, followed by a short précis of each of the contributed papers.

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Article Willard McCarty (2020) Editorial, Making Sense of Metaphor: Evelyn Fox Keller and Commentators on Language and Science. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (pp. 233-233). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Keller, Evelyn Fox
Willard McCarty
Kamenshchikova, Alena
Frezza, Giulia
Hoebe, Christian J. P. A.
David R. Gruber
Journals
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Science as Culture
Renaissance Studies
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of Medieval Latin
Publishers
Southern Illinois University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Editrice Bibliografica
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Concepts
Rhetoric in scientific discourse
Metaphors; analogies
Linguistic or semantic analysis
Communication of scientific ideas
Knowledge and learning
Discourse analysis
People
Keller, Evelyn Fox
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Harvey, William
Sprat, Thomas
Spemann, Hans
Capella, Martianus
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
21st century
20th century, early
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
England
Germany
Paris (France)
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