Andrew S. Reynolds

Broschiertes Buch

Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences

Beschreibung

Written for a general audience interested in how metaphorical language and thinking is used by life scientists to conceptualize and understand subjects from molecular genetics and cell biology to evolution, ecology, and biomedicine. It reveals the positive and negative implications of metaphors for scientific theory, communication, and education.

Autor

Andrew S. Reynolds is Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University, Canada. He is the author of The Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Chance, Law and Evolution (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002). He has a PhD in the philosophy of science from the University of Western Ontario.

Produktdetails

• Understanding Life
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 171mm x 125mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781108940498
• ISBN-10: 1108940498
• Artikelnr.: 62352188