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  1. Sam Shpall, University of Sydney.Dworkin'S. Literary Analogy - 2019 - In Toh Kevin, Plunkett David & Shapiro Scott, Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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  2. Marie-laure Ryan.Creative Analogies - 1998 - Semiotica 118 (1/2):147-164.
     
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    Reply to Devolder.On Reasoning Analogy - 2013 - In Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp, Contemporary debates in bioethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 101.
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  4. Donald L. Martin.Democracy Analogy Falters - forthcoming - Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics.
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    Should we agree to disagree? Pragmatism and peer disagreement.Susan Dieleman & Steven W. Visual Analogies and Arguments - unknown
    In this paper, I take up the conciliatory-steadfast debate occurring within social epistemology in regards to the phenomenon of peer disagreement. I will argue, because the conciliatory perspective al-lows us to understand argumentation pragmatically—as a method of problem-solving within a community rather than as a method for obtaining the truth—that in most cases, we should not simply agree to disagree.
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  6. (1 other version)Models and Analogies in Science.Mary Hesse - 1965 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 16 (62):161-163.
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    Mind-brain analogies.Alan R. White - 1972 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (4):457-472.
    In the history of thought the relation between the mind and the body has been discussed in terms of various analogies. Plato, for example, examined the analogy of a man and his clothes and of the music of an instrument and the instrument itself; Aristotle advocated the analogy of an instrument's capacity and the instrument itself; Descartes alluded to that of a pilot and his ship; and Ryle derided that of a ghost and a machine.What I wish to discuss, (...)
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  8. (1 other version)Models and Analogies in Science.Mary B. Hesse - 1963 - [Notre Dame, Ind.]: University of Notre Dame Press.
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    Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science.Rune Nyrup - 2020 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71 (3):881-903.
    This article highlights a use of analogies in science that so far has received relatively little systematic discussion: providing reasons for pursuing a model or theory. Using the development of the liquid drop model as a test case, I critically assess two extant pursuit worthiness accounts: that analogies justify pursuit by supporting plausibility arguments and that analogies can serve as a guide to potential theoretical unification. Neither of these fit the liquid drop model case. Instead, I develop (...)
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  10. Models, Metaphors and Analogies.Daniela M. Bailer-Jones - 2002 - In Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein, The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 108-127.
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    Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710.Leendert van der Miesen - 2025 - Annals of Science 82 (1):74-101.
    Sounds are heard, sometimes even felt, but in most cases they remain unseen. This ephemeral and invisible nature of sound was already considered a problem when the science of acoustics took form in the seventeenth century. The fact that sound could not be seen was described as a significant hindrance to its understanding. But it was precisely during this time that a wide variety of sounds attracted broad scientific attention across Europe. Scholars, natural philosophers, and mathematicians investigated and experimented with (...)
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  12. Computational and Biological Analogies for Understanding Fine-Tuned Parameters in Physics.Clément Vidal - 2010 - Foundations of Science 15 (4):375 - 393.
    In this philosophical paper, we explore computational and biological analogies to address the fine-tuning problem in cosmology. We first clarify what it means for physical constants or initial conditions to be fine-tuned. We review important distinctions such as the dimensionless and dimensional physical constants, and the classification of constants proposed by Lévy-Leblond. Then we explore how two great analogies, computational and biological, can give new insights into our problem. This paper includes a preliminary study to examine the two (...)
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    Learning by understanding analogies.Russell Greiner - 1988 - Artificial Intelligence 35 (1):81-125.
  14. The Uses of Analogies in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Science.Yves Gingras & Alexandre Guay - 2011 - Perspectives on Science 19 (2):154-191.
    The object of this paper is to look at the extent and nature of the uses of analogy during the ªrst century following the so-called scientiªc revolution. Using the research tool provided by JSTOR we systematically analyze the uses of “analog” and its cognates (analogies, analogous, etc.) in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the period 1665–1780. In addition to giving the possibility of evaluating quantitatively the proportion of papers explicitly using analogies, this approach (...)
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  15. Reasoning by Multiple Analogies.Cameron Shelley - 1999 - Dissertation, University of Waterloo (Canada)
    If you were Monica Lewinski's mother, how would you describe Linda Tripp? Remember that Linda Tripp is the woman who tapped her own phone conversations with Monica and then used them to incriminate President Clinton. Marcia Lewis, Monica's actual mother, chose the following expression: "She is like a meddlesome witch, a praying mantis." This expression conveys a multiple analogy, a comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In this case, the first source tells us that Marcia thinks (...)
     
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    A Transalpine Motif in Counter-Reformation Italy: Animal Analogies with the Ages of Man and Cristofano Bertelli’s Steps of Life.Sara F. Matthews-Grieco - 2021 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 84 (1):123-165.
    Cristofano Bertelli’s companion broadsheets, printed in Modena in the 1560s, represent a failed attempt to introduce a new iconographic theme to the Italian print market. Contrary to the vibrant success of transalpine prints representing the Steps of Life with animal analogies, Bertelli’s initiative did not stimulate Italian visual culture to produce the multiple copies, imitations and derivations long enjoyed by this motif in areas north of the Alps. The only other, comparable images to appear in the peninsula in the (...)
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  17. Mathematization in Synthetic Biology: Analogies, Templates, and Fictions.Andrea Loettgers & Tarja Knuuttila - 2017 - In Martin Carrier & Johannes Lenhard, Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences. Springer Verlag.
    In his famous article “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” Eugen Wigner argues for a unique tie between mathematics and physics, invoking even religious language: “The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve”. The possible existence of such a unique match between mathematics and physics has been extensively discussed by philosophers and historians of mathematics. Whatever the merits (...)
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    Analogies in biology.John Tyler Bonner - 1963 - Synthese 15 (1):275 - 279.
  19. Debunking, supervenience, and Hume’s Principle.in Particular Science & in Metaethics Realism/Anti-Realism Debates She is Currently Working on Analogies Between Debates Over Realism/Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics - 2019 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49 (8):1083-1103.
    Debunking arguments against both moral and mathematical realism have been pressed, based on the claim that our moral and mathematical beliefs are insensitive to the moral/mathematical facts. In the mathematical case, I argue that the role of Hume’s Principle as a conceptual truth speaks against the debunkers’ claim that it is intelligible to imagine the facts about numbers being otherwise while our evolved responses remain the same. Analogously, I argue, the conceptual supervenience of the moral on the natural speaks presents (...)
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    Analogies, Slippery Slopes and the Prohibition of Cannabis.Robert Davies - 2005 - Philosophy Now 51:22-25.
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    Zarathushtrian Analogies.Lawrence H. Mills - 1907 - The Monist 17 (1):23-32.
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  22. Structural Analogies Between Mathematical and Empirical Theories.Andoni Ibarra & Thomas Mormann - 1992 - In Javier Echeverría, Andoni Ibarra & Thomas Mormann, The space of mathematics: philosophical, epistemological, and historical explorations. New York: W. de Gruyter.
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    Global relations versus object relations in visual analogies.Amin Hashemi & Elisabet Tubau - 2025 - Thinking and Reasoning 31 (1):109-135.
    Based on the distinction between global and local levels of visual perception, here we studied different levels of reasoning in visual analogies. Specifically, we created problems that could be solved by inferring relations either between the global shapes (global path) or the underlying objects (object path). The problems varied in the saliency of the global shape, in the colour and familiarity of the objects, and in the presentation of the visual problem (simultaneous or sequential). The results of three studies (...)
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    Mathematical reasoning: analogies, metaphors, and images.Lyn D. English (ed.) - 1997 - Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates.
    Presents the latest research on how reasoning with analogies, metaphors, metonymies, and images can facilitate mathematical understanding. For math education, educational psychology, and cognitive science scholars.
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  25. On some analogies between the counterexamples to modus ponens (and modus tollens).Lina Maria Lissia - 2020 - The Reasoner 14 (6):35-37.
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  26. Some structural analogies between tenses and pronouns in English.Barbara Hall Partee - 1973 - Journal of Philosophy 70 (18):601-609.
  27. The proactive brain: using analogies and associations to generate predictions.Moshe Bar - 2007 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11 (7):280-289.
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    Political Independence, Territorial Integrity and Private Law Analogies.Arthur Ripstein - 2019 - Kantian Review 24 (4):573-604.
    Kant deploys analogies from private law in describing relations between states. I explore the relation between these analogies and the broader Kantian idea of the distinctively public nature of a rightful condition, in order to explain why states, understood as public things, stand in horizontal, private legal relations without themselves being private. I use this analysis to explore the international law analogues of the three titles of private right, explaining how territory differs from property, treaty from contract and (...)
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    Analogies between nature and its parts.Rem B. Edwards - 1976 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (2):369 - 378.
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    Abduction and analogies in linguistic reconstruction inferences.C. Barés Gómez, Á Nepomuceno & F. J. Salguero Lamillar - forthcoming - Logic Journal of the IGPL.
    The aim of this article is to analyse the kind of inference used in the reconstruction of proto-languages. Hypothesis is at the core of this reconstruction process and this, together with the structure of reasoning involved, indicates abductive reasoning. We analyse abductive reasoning, and specify its nuances and particularities. The novelty we introduce is the importance of context as we focus on a form of abduction that goes beyond the context in which the scientific work is being developed by incorporating (...)
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    The Higgs mechanism and superconductivity: A case study of formal analogies.Doreen Fraser & Adam Koberinski - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 55:72-91.
    Following the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists explained the discovery to the public by appealing to analogies with condensed matter physics. The historical root of these analogies is the analogies to models of superconductivity that inspired the introduction of spontaneous symmetry breaking into particle physics in the early 1960s. We offer a historical and philosophical analysis of the analogies between the Higgs model of the electroweak interaction and the Ginsburg-Landau and Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer models of superconductivity, (...)
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    Exclusion: Property Analogies in the Immigration Debate.Jeremy Waldron - 2017 - Theoretical Inquiries in Law 18 (2):469-489.
    By what right do sovereign states prohibit migrants from entering their territories? It cannot be assumed that they do, certainly not as a matter of the way we define “sovereignty.” Can the sovereign right to exclude immigrants be derived from the sovereign’s status as owner of the territory it controls? This Article shows that the idea of the sovereign as owner is too problematic to be the basis of any argument for the right to exclude. It also argues against the (...)
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    Thoreau’s Insect Analogies: Or Why Environmentalists Hate Mainstream Economists.Bryan G. Norton - 1991 - Environmental Ethics 13 (3):235-251.
    Thoreau believed that we can learn how to live by observing nature, a view that appeals to modem environmentalists. This doctrine is exemplified in Thoreau’s use of insect analogies to illustrate how humans, like butterflies, can be transformed from the “larval” stage, which relates to the physical world through consumption, to a “perfect” state in which consumption is less important, and in which freedom and contemplation are the ends of life. This transformational idea rests upon a theory of dynamic (...)
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    Commentary on Trudy Govier’s “Some Outstanding Questions about Analogies”.Marcello Guarini - unknown
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    What Are Kant's Analogies about?Wayne Waxman - 1993 - Review of Metaphysics 47 (1):63 - 113.
    An application and confirmation of the thesis of my book, "Kant's Model of the Mind", that, for Kant, space and time exist only in and for imagination, and the given of sense is atemporal and aspatial (=transcendental idealism). On previous interpretations of transcendental idealism, appearances already have temporal and spatial existence; on mine, they lack such existence, and the purpose of the Analogies is to show how they originally acquire it. Existence in space and time is constituted by a (...)
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  36. Harm, risk, and doping analogies: A counter-response to Kious.Oskar MacGregor & Mike McNamee - 2011 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32 (3):201-207.
    Brent Kious has objected to our previous criticism of his views on doping, maintaining that we, by and large, misrepresented his position. In this response, we strengthen our original misgivings, arguing that (1) his views on risk of harm in sport are either uncontroversially true (not inconsistent with the views of many doping opponents) or demonstrably false (attribute to doping opponents an overly simplistic view), (2) his use of analogies (still) indicates an oversimplification of many issues surrounding the question (...)
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    Mapping friendship and friendship research: The role of analogies and metaphors.Claus Emmeche - 2022 - In Shyam Wuppuluri & A. C. Grayling, Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities. Springer. pp. 339-362.
    Research in general, and research on friendship in particular, uses metaphors and analogies, and research itself can be seen in analogy with map making. This chapter takes us on a meandering walk along mono- and multidisciplinary inquiries into friendship as seen from many perspectives, like that of history and philosophy of science (that has analogical modelling as a canonical style of reasoning) and semiotics, to reflect on the uses of metaphor and analogy. Semiotics as founded by C. S. Peirce (...)
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  38. The Cartesian aspect of analogies in some writings by Edmond Pourchot, Francois Lamy and Fenelon.M. G. Zaccone Sina - 2004 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 59 (3):707-735.
     
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    Conscientious Objection, Conflicts of Interests, and Choosing the Right Analogies. A Reply to Pruski.Alberto Giubilini & Julian Savulescu - 2021 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 18 (1):181-185.
    In this response paper, we respond to the criticisms that Michal Pruski raised against our article “Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of Interests.” We defend our original position against conscientious objection in healthcare by suggesting that the analogies Pruski uses to criticize our paper miss the relevant point and that some of the analogies he uses and the implications he draws are misplaced.
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  40. Mathematization in Synthetic Biology: Analogies, Templates, and Fictions.Andrea Loettgers & Tarja Knuuttila - 2017 - In Martin Carrier & Johannes Lenhard, Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences. Springer Verlag.
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    The Creative Power of Formal Analogies in Physics: The Case of Albert Einstein.Ricardo Karam - 2015 - Science & Education 24 (5-6):529-541.
    In order to show how formal analogies between different physical systems play an important conceptual work in physics, this paper analyzes the evolution of Einstein’s thoughts on the structure of radiation from the point of view of the formal analogies he used as “lenses” to “see” through the “black box” of Planck’s blackbody radiation law. A comparison is also made with his 1925 paper on the quantum gas where he used the same formal methods. Changes of formal points (...)
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    Discourse Metaphors: The link between Figurative Language and Habitual Analogies.Jörg Zinken - 2007 - Cognitive Linguistics 18 (3):445–466.
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  43. On the role of analogies and metaphors in learning science.Reinders Duit - 1991 - Science Education 75 (6):649-672.
     
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    The non-miraculous success of formal analogies in quantum theories.Doreen Fraser - 2020 - In Juha Saatsi & Steven French, Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    The Higgs model was developed using purely formal analogies to models of superconductivity. This is in contrast to historical case studies such as the development of electromagnetism, which employed physical analogies. As a result, quantum case studies such as the development of the Higgs model carry new lessons for the scientific realism--anti-realism debate. I argue that, by breaking the connection between success and approximate truth, the use of purely formal analogies is a counterexample to two prominent versions (...)
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  45. Logical Foundations and Analogies of Anglo-American Psychology.Ettore de Monte & Antonino Tamburello - 2015 - Theory and Psychology 25 (3):292-312.
    This article is a theoretical study of the relations between logic and Anglo-American cognitive science. It uses temporal, historical, and intentional evidence, and it is based on two consequential assumptions: (a) between the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, some logical systems attempted to explain the foundations of mathematics and (b) since the 1940s and 1950s, these same systems became implicit sources of contents and methods of the rising Cognitivism. This study produces an important conclusion: (...)
     
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    Kant's Ambivalent Analogies.Paul Guyer - 1989 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (1):33-48.
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    Kant's analogies of experience.Arthur Melnick - 1973 - Chicago,: University of Chicago Press.
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    A Pursuit Worthiness Account of Analogies in Science.Rune Nyrup - unknown
    Analogies often provide reasons for pursuing hypotheses or models. This is illustrated with a case study on the liquid drop model of the atomic nucleus. I criticise accounts in which analogies provide reasons for pursuit through epistemic support, proposing instead that analogies increase the value of learning the truth. I consider two accounts of this type: first, that analogies indicate potentials for theoretical unification; second, that analogies facilitate the transfer of already well-understood modelling frameworks to (...)
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    Le fondement du discours scientifique: Des analogies de l'expérience dans la « Critique de la Raison Pure ».Robert Theis - 1986 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 91 (2):203 - 235.
    L'auteur étudie le cas des analogies de l'expérience à la lumière de la thèse selon laquelle la Critique de la Raison Pure fonctionne selon une double modalité (du moins en ce qui concerne l'Esthétique et l'Analytique) : d'tune part comme élaboration des conditions générales d'une ontologie de l'étant (problème de la compétence du discours rationnel); d' autre part comme discours fondateur des mathématiques (Esthétique) et de la physique (Analytique). L'auteur présente l'exposé transcendantal des analogies, en donne une interprétation (...)
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    Neither superorganisms nor mere species aggregates: Charles Elton’s sociological analogies and his moderate holism about ecological communities.Antoine C. Dussault - 2020 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42 (2):1-27.
    This paper analyzes community ecologist Charles Elton’s ideas on animal communities, and situates them with respect to the classical opposition between organicist–holistic and individualistic–reductionist ecological views drawn by many historians of ecology. It is argued that Elton espoused a moderate ecological holism, which drew a middle way between the stricter ecological holism advocated by organicist ecologists and the merely aggregationist views advocated by some of their opponents. It is also argued that Elton’s moderate ecological holism resonated with his preference for (...)
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