35.1787, Confs: Insights through Metaphor. Metaphors, Pictures, and Epistemic Values

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Subject: 35.1787, Confs: Insights through Metaphor. Metaphors, Pictures, and Epistemic Values

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Date: 13-Jun-2024
From: Daniel Skibra [daniel.skibra at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Insights through Metaphor. Metaphors, Pictures, and Epistemic Values


Insights through Metaphor. Metaphors, Pictures, and Epistemic Values

Date: 27-Jun-2024 - 28-Jun-2024
Location: Konstanz, Germany
Contact: Jochen Briessen
Contact Email: jochen.briesen at uni-konstanz.de
Meeting URL: https://philevents.org/event/show/122934

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics

Meeting Description:

It is undeniable that metaphors have an aesthetic dimension.
Traditionally, this aesthetic aspect was either emphasized while the
epistemic value of metaphors was at the same time diminished or the
aesthetic dimension was neglected in order to emphasize the epistemic
value of metaphors. At our conference, we want to ask if the aesthetic
dimension of metaphors can also strengthen and contribute to the
epistemic value of metaphors.

Call for Papers:

To investigate this question we also plan to take into account the
relation between metaphors and pictures. It can, for example, be asked
to what degree metaphors have pictorial quality. Furthermore, some
authors argue that there are genuine visual metaphors. In this context
it can be discussed which special properties (if any) metaphors gain
when they are realized visually. Further questions are: Can the
epistemic value of metaphors be explicated by recourse to the
epistemic value of images or pictures? How exactly does the aesthetic
relate to the epistemic value in images and metaphors? Which epistemic
values can art and aesthetic objects in general have? Is there a
genuine epistemic value of metaphors at all? Which value can metaphors
and analogies have for science and (scientific) understanding in
general? The conference will address these and related questions from
the perspective of epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of
science, linguistics, psychology, art history and media theory.



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