Colin Murray Turbayne
Colin Murray Turbayne | |
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| Born | 7 February 1916 Tannymorel, Australia |
| Died | 16 May 2006 (aged 90) Queensland, Australia |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | Constructions Verus Inferences In The Philosophy Of Bertrand Russell (1950) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Main interests | George Berkeley, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Phenomenalism, Conceptual metaphor, Cognitive linguistics |
| Notable ideas | The Myth of Metaphor Visual perception Language model |
Colin Murray Turbayne (7 February 1916 – 16 May 2006) was an Australian philosopher and scholar of George Berkeley. He spent most of his thirty-five-year academic career at the University of Rochester and authored The Myth of Metaphor in which he explores the use and abuse of metaphors and conceptual metaphors in language.