Philosophy In The Flesh
The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
$104.86
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
7 October 1999
Summary
What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptions—that we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the world is literal, and that reason is disembodied and universal—that are now called into question by well-established results of cognitive science.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465056743 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465056741 |
| Author: | George Lakoff |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 7 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 1.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 180mm x 100mm |
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About The Author
George Lakoff
George Lakoff is professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the coauthor, with Mark Johnson, of Metaphors We Live By. He was one of the founders of the generative semantics movement in linguistics in the 1960s, a founder of the field of cognitive linguistics in the 1970s, and one of the developers of the neural theory of language in the 1980s and ‘90s. His other books include More Than Cool Reason (with Mark Turner), Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, and Moral Politics.
Mark Johnson is professor and head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon and is on the executive committee of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences there. In addition to his books with George Lakoff, he is the editor of an anthology, Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor.
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