Experimenting in Tongues
Studies in Science and Language
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ISBN-13:
9780804744416
Veröffentl:
2002
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.07.2002
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Matthias Dörries
Gewicht:
503 g
Format:
229x152x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
References to language abound in the sciences: biologists speak about "reading" the human genome and "rewriting" the genetic code, computer scientists develop "programming language," and mathematicians seek a "universal symbolic language." What is behind these references to language, and what do they say about how science actually works? This concise but ambitious volume brings together leading scholars in the history of science to address these questions from a variety of perspectives: the historical, methodological, and ideological motivations behind scientists' use of language metaphors. In so doing, they ask whether and under what conditions analogies to language gain power, whether and under what conditions they are replaced by more fruitful ones, and, crucially, whether nature ever really operates and develops like a language.>
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