TY - JOUR
T1 - Analogical Reasoning and Conceptual Change
T2 - A Case Study of Johannes Kepler
AU - Gentner, Dedre
AU - Brem, Sarah
AU - Ferguson, Ronald W.
AU - Markman, Arthur B.
AU - Levidow, Björn B.
AU - Wolff, Phillip
AU - Forbus, Kenneth D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS-87-20301 and Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J1272. Ronald W. Ferguson received support from a Northwestern University Cognitive Science Fellowship. Bjorn Levidow was supported by a James S. McDonnell foundation postdoctoral fellowship.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - The work of Johannes Kepler offers clear examples of conceptual change. In this article, using Kepler's work as a case study, we argue that analogical reasoning facilitates change of knowledge in four ways: (a) highlighting, (b) projection, (c) rerepresentation, and (d) restructuring. We present these four mechanisms within the context of structure-mapping theory and its computational implementation, the structure-mapping engine. We exemplify these mechanisms using the extended analogies Kepler used in developing a causal theory of planetary motion.
AB - The work of Johannes Kepler offers clear examples of conceptual change. In this article, using Kepler's work as a case study, we argue that analogical reasoning facilitates change of knowledge in four ways: (a) highlighting, (b) projection, (c) rerepresentation, and (d) restructuring. We present these four mechanisms within the context of structure-mapping theory and its computational implementation, the structure-mapping engine. We exemplify these mechanisms using the extended analogies Kepler used in developing a causal theory of planetary motion.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15327809jls0601_2
DO - 10.1207/s15327809jls0601_2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031540034
SN - 1050-8406
VL - 6
SP - 3
EP - 40
JO - Journal of the Learning Sciences
JF - Journal of the Learning Sciences
IS - 1
ER -