EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: From Darwin to Dawkins
EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: From Darwin to Dawkins
Author(s): Anna DrogoszSubject(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.
Journal: Acta Neophilologica
- Issue Year: 2/2013
- Issue No: XV
- Page Range: 19-29
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English