Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory.
The discipline of philosophy has been critiqued from both within and outside itself. One brand of external critique is associated with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the view that human cognition is partially structured by pervasive and automatic mappings between conceptual domains. Most notably,...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 1038 - 1054 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2025
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