Displacement of Concepts

✍ Scribed by Donald A. Schon (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Series: International Behavioural and Social Sciences, Classics from the Tavistock Press
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1963 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Original Title
Original Copyright
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE. THE RADICAL FUNCTION
I ASKING THE QUESTION: A REVIEW OF SOME THEORIES OF THE FORMATION OF NEW CONCEPTS
New Concepts
Theories of New Concept Formation
Theories of mystery
Theories of reduction
The Gestalt
view
Theories of scientific method
II STARTING FROM SCRATCH: TREATING THE NEW IN TERMS OF THE OLD
Comparison
Error
Concept-instance
The Extension and Displacement of Concepts
III ANALOGY AND METAPHOR
Metaphor
Analogy
Analogy and Metaphor in this Book
History of Attitudes towards Metaphor and Analogy
The Role of Metaphor in Language
IV A CLOSE LOOK AT THE DISPLACEMENT OF CONCEPTS
Introduction
A Schema for the Displacement of Concepts
The Symbolic Relation
The Selection of Concepts for Displacement
New Ideas from the Displacement of Concepts
Projection
A logic of discovery
Emotional bases of
processes of discovery
Scope of the Displacement of Concepts
PART TWO. THE CONSERVATIVE FUNCTION
V THE CONSERVATIVE FUNCTION OF THE DISPLACEMENT OF CONCEPTS
Introduction
Theories of Deciding: the Scale; the Use of Tools; Group Processes
Theories of the Mind: Mechanism and Dynamism; Atomism
A Theory of Understanding: Vision
A Theory of Romantic Love
CONCLUSIONS
VI THE LIFE OF METAPHORS IN THEORY: A SPECULATIVE CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX