Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason - How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding Paperback
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason - How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding Paperback Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. Subsequent chapters set…
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Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason - How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding Paperback
Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. Subsequent chapters set out Johnson's important role in embodied cognition theory, including his cofounding (with George Lakoff) of conceptual metaphor theory and, later, their theory of bodily structures and processes that underlie all meaning, conceptualization, and reasoning. 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.
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