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Authors: Douglas Hofstadter,Emmanuel Sander
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Chapter 4
The contributions by Bowdle and Gentner, Geary, Gibbs, Glucksberg, Indurkhya, Jones and Estes, Lakoff and Turner, Ortony, and Pinker are relevant mainly to our sections on metaphor. The works by Chi, Ericsson, Feltovich, Hoffman, Johnson, Mervis, Ross, Tanaka, and Taylor and their colleagues are relevant to our discussion of expertise in a broad sense. The works by Greenberg, Sander (with Dupuch), and Politzer discuss the phenomenon of marking. The article by Collins and Quillian shows the classical approach to abstraction, while Poitrenaud’s monograph and the articles by Laurence and Margolis and by Richard and Sander offer more recent views of the phenomenon. Chrysikou, Duncker, Nersessian, Richard, and Ward treat abstraction and creativity and their role in problem-solving. The book edited by Laurence and Margolis concerns artefacts, while Casati’s fascinating study is devoted to shadows in a very wide sense of the term.
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