Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Embodied Mind Meaning And Reason How Our Bodies Give Rise To Understanding
Author(s): Johnson Mark
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226500256
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 11/14/2017
Category: Philosophy