@article{mao-etal-2026-evolution,
    title = "The Evolution of Philosophy: A Metaphorical Cognition Perspective",
    author = "Mao, Rui  and
      Chen, Dapeng  and
      Huang, Zihao  and
      Zhang, Xulang  and
      Cambria, Erik",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.888/",
    pages = "11359--11367",
    abstract = "We present a large-scale study of philosophical cognition through the lens of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Using a computational metaphor processing system that extracts target concepts, source concepts, and concept mappings from a curated corpus of 50+ canonical texts (300k sentences) spanning ten schools from antiquity to the late twentieth century, we quantify how metaphor organizes philosophical argument. We model temporal dynamics with year-level cosine series, authorial neighborhoods with PCA projections, and school signatures with heatmaps of normalized frequencies. The study demonstrates that the history of philosophy is structured by stable cross-domain schemas that are selectively recombined to address new problems."
}