戴维·库珀(1942— )，英国哲学家。曾任英国亚里士多德学会、尼采学会、教育哲学协会主席．现任英国皇家哲学学会执行委员会委员、达勒姆大学哲学教授。著有《哲学与语言的本性》、《语言的知识》、《隐喻》、《意义》等。

戴维·库珀(1942— )，英国哲学家。曾任英国亚里士多德学会、尼采学会、教育哲学协会主席．现任英国皇家哲学学会执行委员会委员、达勒姆大学哲学教授。著有《哲学与语言的本性》、《语言的知识》、《隐喻》、《意义》等。

The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, received conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor cannot be explained by or within semantics, they claim that metaphor has little, if anything, to teach us about semanti...(展开全部)

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical ...(展开全部)

The book includes fifteen essays and an interview. The essays are grouped in three parts: Mathematics; Mathematics and Physics; and Language, Consciousness, and Book reviews. Most of the essays are about some aspects of epistemology and the history of sciences, mainly mathematics, physics, and the history of language. English translations of some of the essays, originally publi...(展开全部)

The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, received conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor cannot be explained by or within semantics, they claim that metaphor has little, if anything, to teach us about semanti...(展开全部)

The book includes fifteen essays and an interview. The essays are grouped in three parts: Mathematics; Mathematics and Physics; and Language, Consciousness, and Book reviews. Most of the essays are about some aspects of epistemology and the history of sciences, mainly mathematics, physics, and the history of language. English translations of some of the essays, originally publi...(展开全部)

Illness as Metaphor is a nonfiction work written by Susan Sontag and published in 1978. She wrote it during her own fight against breast cancer and challenged the "blame the victim" mentality behind the language society often uses to describe diseases and those who suffer from them. Drawing out the similarities between public perspectives on cancer (the paradigmatic disease of ...(展开全部)

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical ...(展开全部)