Fabling Gestures in Expository Science

IF 0.4 3区 社会学 0 FOLKLORE JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2019-10-14 DOI:10.2979/jfolkrese.56.2_3.06
Gregory Schrempp
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Abstract:Ranging from pre-Socratic philosophers to contemporary popular science writers, I analyze seven instances in which fable-like scenarios have been utilized in the exposition and/or promotion of philosophy and/or science. I examine the motives and strategies that propel such novel uses of fabling gestures and also explore the ironies and pitfalls that the genre poses when invoked in scientific discourse. For example, one pervasive assumption of the fable genre is that the animal characters are really humans; might this genre conceit subtly introduce a bias when a fable-like scenario of animal behavior, such as a crow confronting a pitcher, is examined by animal cognition specialists attempting to understand the relationship of human and nonhuman animal intelligence?
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说学中的寓言手势
摘要:从前苏格拉底时代的哲学家到当代科普作家,我分析了七个寓言般的场景被用来阐述和/或推广哲学和/或科学的例子。我研究了推动这种新奇的寓言手法使用的动机和策略,也探索了这种类型在科学话语中所带来的讽刺和陷阱。例如,寓言题材的一个普遍假设是,动物角色实际上是人类;当动物认知专家试图理解人类和非人类动物智力之间的关系时,这种类型是否会巧妙地引入一种偏见,比如一只乌鸦面对一个水罐,这种寓言式的动物行为场景?
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Folklore Research has provided an international forum for current theory and research among scholars of traditional culture since 1964. Each issue includes topical, incisive articles of current theoretical interest to folklore and ethnomusicology as international disciplines, as well as essays that address the fieldwork experience and the intellectual history of folklore and ethnomusicology studies. Contributors include scholars and professionals in additional fields, including anthropology, area studies, communication, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, religion, and semiotics.
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