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  1. 1. Bortom maskinen : Jakten på en ny livsmetafor under den tvärvetenskapliga konferensen Beyond reductionism 1968

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Författare :Josef Schönberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :reductionism; metaphor; analogy; Koestler; system theory; behaviour; life sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the role of metaphoric thought at the symposium Beyond reductionism: New perspectives in the life sciences organised by the Hungarian-born writer Arthur Koestler in 1968. The symposium can be interpreted in part as a protest against the metaphor of man as a machine, which was connected by the participants to reductionism in a broader, cosmological sense. LÄS MER