Two analogy strategies: The cases of mind metaphors and introspection

Fischer, Eugen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610 (2018) Two analogy strategies: The cases of mind metaphors and introspection. Connection Science, 30 (2). pp. 211-243. ISSN 0954-0091

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Abstract

Analogical reasoning is often employed in problem-solving and metaphor interpretation. This paper submits that, as a default, analogical reasoning addressing these different tasks employs different mapping strategies: In problem-solving, it employs analogy-maximising strategies (like structure mapping, Gentner & Markman 1997); in metaphor interpretation, analogy-minimising strategies (like ATT-Meta, Barnden 2015). The two strategies interact in analogical reasoning with conceptual metaphors. This interaction leads to predictable fallacies. The paper supports these hypotheses through case-studies on ‘mind’-metaphors from ordinary discourse, and abstract problem-solving in the philosophy of mind, respectively: It shows that (1) default metaphorical interpretations for vision- and space-cognition metaphors can be derived with a variant of the analogy-minimising ATT-Meta approach, (2) philosophically influential introspective conceptions of the mind can be derived with conceptual metaphors only through an analogy-maximising strategy, and (3) the interaction of these strategies leads to hitherto unrecognised fallacies in analogical reasoning with metaphors. This yields a debunking explanation of introspective conceptions.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 27 Jun 2017 05:06
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 09:45
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63841
DOI: 10.1080/09540091.2017.1350937

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