This essay discusses critically the ways in which different metaphors employed to illustrate the practices of knowledge production and knowledge acquisition as well as scientific and scholarly research shape our understanding of the academic form of life. The essay examines the metaphors of knowledge and their role in academia by means of philosophical analysis and a rhetorical analysis of language, thereby defending the core values of academic freedom. It focuses on two pairs of metaphors highly relevant to the tensions characteristic of contemporary academic work: verticality and horizontality, on the one hand, and change and stability, on the other. The entanglement of perspectives from philosophy and historical rhetoric serves a metaphilosophical goal here: to show that our philosophical understanding of the nature of inquiry will be considerably enhanced if we seriously, and with both historical and literary sensibilities, study the metaphors we use in characterizing our epistemic and cognitive projects.

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知识和学术影响的隐喻

本文批判性地讨论了用于说明知识生产和知识获取实践以及科学和学术研究的不同隐喻如何塑造我们对学术生活形式的理解。本文通过哲学分析和语言修辞分析，考察知识的隐喻及其在学术界的作用，从而捍卫学术自由的核心价值。它侧重于与当代学术工作的张力特征高度相关的两对隐喻：一方面是垂直性和水平性，另一方面是变化和稳定。哲学和历史修辞观点的纠缠在这里服务于一个元哲学目标：