Fischer, Eugen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610
(2015)
Mind the metaphor! A systematic fallacy in analogical reasoning.
Analysis, 75 (1).
pp. 67-77.
ISSN 0003-2638
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Abstract
Conceptual metaphors facilitate both productive and pernicious analogical reasoning. This paper addresses the question: When and why does the frequently helpful use of metaphor become pernicious? By applying the most influential theoretical framework from cognitive psychology (structure-mapping theory) in analysing the philosophically most prominent example of pernicious metaphorical reasoning (the early modern transformation of ‘the mind’), we identify a philosophically relevant but previously undescribed fallacy in analogical reasoning with metaphors. We then outline an explanation of why even competent thinkers commit this fallacy and obtain a psychologically informed ‘debunking’ explanation of the kind experimental philosophy’s ‘sources project’ seeks.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | analogical inference,conceptual metaphor,mind metaphors,automatic inference,psychology of judgment and reasoning,debunking explanations |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2015 10:18 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2022 16:31 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/51714 |
DOI: | 10.1093/analys/anu124 |
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