Cultural Genocide: Legal Label or Mourning Metaphor?

Pancomputationalism: Theory or Metaphor

The theory that all processes in the universe are computational is attractive in its promise to provide an understandable theory of everything. I want to suggest here that this ‘pancomputationalism’ is not sufficiently clear on which problem it is trying to solve, and how. I propose two interpretations of pancomputationalism as a theory: I) the world is a computer and II) the world can be descr...

Beyond Legal Realism?: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship

Your Metaphor or Mine: Belief Ascription and Metaphor Interpretation

ViewGen, an algorithm and program for be­ lief ascription, represents the beliefs of agents as explicit, partitioned proposition-sets known as environments. A way of extending View-Gen to the interpretation of metaphor, and in particular to the comprehension of metaphor within the belief spaces of particular agents, has been described elsewhere. The paper re­ ports the further refinement and re...

Comfort Zone: Model or metaphor?

The comfort zone model is widespread within adventure education literature. It is based on the belief that when placed in a stressful situation people will respond by overcoming their fear and therefore grow as individuals. This model is often presented to participants prior to activities with a highly perceived sense of risk and challenge which arouses strong emotional and physical responses t...

Metaphor and Analogy: The Sun and Moon of Legal Persuasion