Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason :How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason :How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
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Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values. A brief account of Johnson's own intellectual journey, through which we track some of the most important discoveries in the field over the past forty years, sets the stage. Subsequent chapters set out Johnson's important role in embodied cognition theory, including his co-founding (with George Lakoff) of conceptual metaphor theory and, later, their theory of bodily structures and processes that underlie all meaning, conceptualization, and reasoning. A detailed account of how meaning arises from our physical engagement with our environments provides the basis for a non-dualistic, non-reductive view of mind that he sees as most congruous with the latest cognitive science. A concluding section explores the implications of our embodiment for our understanding of knowledge, reason, and truth. The resulting book will be essential for all philosophers dealing with mind, thought, and language.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780226500256 |
| ISBN10 | 022650025X |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 397 g |
| Product Dimensions | 15 x 23 x 1 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | The University of Chicago Press |
| Format | paperback |
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Mark Johnson's early books, especially Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, were absolutely critical in the founding of embodied cognitive science. Somehow his work has gotten even better--deeper, more subtle, more historically informed--over the years. The essays collected here are essential reading for anyone interested in philosophical issues related to embodiment. --Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati
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Author's Bio
Mark Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.