TY - JOUR AU - Frezza, Giulia AU - Gagliasso, Elena PY - 2014/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Fare metafore e fare scienza JF - Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico JA - aisthesis VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Monographica DO - 10.13128/Aisthesis-15288 UR - https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/843 SP - 25-42 AB - The analysis of the status of the constitutive metaphor in science is considered along with the examination of some principal models of metaphors among biology, medicine and neurosciences. This allows to highlight the two ages of the scientific metaphor, the crossover between metaphors and models, and some open questions about the hidden ideologies concealed in the scientific theoretical terms that come from the use of metaphors. ER -