Fabling Gestures in Expository Science

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSchrempp, Gregory A
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-20T15:54:22Z
dc.date.available2025-02-20T15:54:22Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-01
dc.descriptionThis record is for a(n) offprint of an article published in Journal of Folklore Research on 2019-10-01.
dc.description.abstractRanging from pre-Socratic philosophers to contemporary popular science writers, I analyze seven instances in which fable-like scenarios have been utilized in the exposition and/or promotion of philosophy and/or science. I examine the motives and strategies that propel such novel uses of fabling gestures and also explore the ironies and pitfalls that the genre poses when invoked in scientific discourse. For example, one pervasive assumption of the fable genre is that the animal characters are really humans; might this genre conceit subtly introduce a bias when a fable-like scenario of animal behavior, such as a crow confronting a pitcher, is examined by animal cognition specialists attempting to understand the relationship of human and nonhuman animal intelligence?
dc.description.versionoffprint
dc.identifier.citationSchrempp, Gregory A. "Fabling Gestures in Expository Science." Journal of Folklore Research, vol. 56, no. 2-3, pp. 91-112, 2019-10-01.
dc.identifier.issn0737-7037
dc.identifier.otherBRITE 3782
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/31298
dc.language.isoen-us
dc.relation.journalJournal of Folklore Research
dc.titleFabling Gestures in Expository Science

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
3782_fabling-gestures.pdf
Size:
498.98 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Faculty Open Access Articles
Can’t use the file because of accessibility barriers? Contact us