Embodied mind, meaning, and reason: how our bodies give rise to understanding
Editorial THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Verlag THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- ISBN13 9780226500256
- ISBN10 022650025X
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 256
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2017
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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Philosophie Des GeistesEmbodied 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 cofounding (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 nondualistic, nonreductive 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.
- Verlag THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- ISBN13 9780226500256
- ISBN10 022650025X
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 256
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2017
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch