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Cognitive Semantics and Scientific KnowledgeCase studies in the cognitive science of science
2004. viii, 261 pp.
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978 90 272 3890 0 / EUR 85.00 978 1 58811 501 0 / USD 128.00
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The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific application of both holistic and modular cognitive semantics. The case studies show that, while cognitive semantic research is able to solve problems which have traditionally been the domain of the philosophy of science, it also encounters serious limits. The prospects and the limits thus revealed suggest new research topics which in future can be tackled by cognitive semantic approaches to the cognitive science of science.
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“[...] das Buch ist allen zu empfehlen, die verstehen wollen, wie man in der Wissenschaft kreativ, undogmatisch un reflektiert denkt.”
Kennosuke Yamada, in Sprachtheorie und germanische Linguistik, Vol. 16:1 (2006)
“Cognitive semantics and scientific knowledge is a fruitful, enlightening book. The findings it yields provide promising starting points for future linguistic and metascientific research alike. The book is a valuable contribution to the new field of the cognitive science of science.”
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Linguistics