Resources for Research on Analogy: A Multi-disciplinary Guide

Authors

  • Marcello Guarini University of Windsor
  • Amy Butchart
  • Paul Simard Smith
  • Andrei Moldovan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v29i2.1225

Keywords:

Aesthetics, argument scheme, art, axiomatic approach, bijection, case based reasoning (CBR), case law, casuistry, cognition, common law, engineering, ethics, example, exemplar, frame, homology, homomorphism, homoplasty, isomorphism, language, law

Abstract

Work on analogy has been done from a number of disciplinary perspectives throughout the history of Western thought. This work is a multidisciplinary guide to theorizing about analogy. It contains 1,406 references, primarily to journal articles and monographs, and primarily to English language material. classical through to contemporary sources are included. The work is classified into eight different sections (with a number of subsections). A brief introduction to each section is provided. Keywords and key expressions of importance to research on analogy are discussed in the introductory material. Electronic resources for conducting research on analogy are listed as well.

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Published

2009-06-25

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 2 (2009)

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