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Changing Worldviews: Responding to Betty Birner and Robert Masson |
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| Authors: | Mary Gerhart Allan Melvin Russell |
| Institution: | Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| Abstract: | Worldviews are changed by higher viewpoints that can develop by metaphoric process, the equating of two formerly disparate known concepts. The equating results in a distortion—a tectonic reformation—of the associated fields of meanings that effects a rearrangement of associated concepts leading to new cognitive relations. We comment on reviews of our books Metaphoric Process (1984) and New Maps for Old (2001) by Robert Masson and Betty Birner. Metaphoric process may further understanding of the formation of diverse worldviews and their reconciliation. |
| Keywords: | analogy bidisciplinary fields of meaning higher viewpoint George Lakoff and Mark Johnson linguistic metaphors metaphoric process in science and religion metaphors of thought and action ontological flash tectonic reformation stereoscopic view worldview |