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EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: From Darwin to Dawkins
EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: From Darwin to Dawkins

Author(s): Anna Drogosz
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Semiology, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: metaphor in science; evolutionism; journey metaphor

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of the metaphor EVOLUTIONARYCHANGE IS A JOURNEY in the text of its original appearance (Charles Darwin’s On theOrigin of Species) and its later developments (texts by Richard Dawkins). An analysis ofselected examples allows a conclusion that EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY is a theoryconstitutivemetaphor for evolutionism. The paper also proposes an extended understandingof the whole concept of theory-constitutive metaphor.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: XV
  • Page Range: 19-29
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English
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