Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought / by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, 1999.Description: xiv, 624 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0465056733
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- BD418.3 .L35 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 584-601) and index.
Pt. I. How the Embodied Mind Challenges the Western Philosophical Tradition. 1. Introduction: Who Are We? 2. The Cognitive Unconscious. 3. The Embodied Mind. 4. Primary Metaphor and Subjective Experience. 5. The Anatomy of Complex Metaphor. 6. Embodied Realism: Cognitive Science Versus A Priori Philosophy. 7. Realism and Truth. 8. Metaphor and Truth -- Pt. II. The Cognitive Science of Basic Philosophical Ideas. 9. The Cognitive Science of Philosophical Ideas. 10. Time. 11. Events and Causes. 12. The Mind. 13. The Self. 14. Morality -- Pt. III. The Cognitive Science of Philosophy. 15. The Cognitive Science of Philosophy. 16. The Pre-Socratics: the Cognitive Science of Early Greek Metaphysics. 17. Plato. 18. Aristotle. 19. Descartes and the Enlightenment Mind. 20. Kantian Morality. 21. Analytic Philosophy. 22. Chomsky's Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. 23. The Theory of Rational Action. 24. How Philosophical Theories Work --
Pt. IV. Embodied Philosophy. 25. Philosophy in the Flesh. App. The Neural Theory of Language Paradigm.
Lakoff and Johnson show that a philosophy responsible to the science of mind offers radically new and detailed understandings of what a person is. After first describing the philosophical stance that must follow from taking cognitive science seriously, they re-examine the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self: then they rethink a host of philosophical traditions, from the classical Greeks through Kantian morality through modern analytic philosophy.
They reveal the metaphorical structure underlying each mode of thought and show how the metaphysics of each theory flows from its metaphors. Finally, they take on two major issues of twentieth-century philosophy: how we conceive rationality, and how we conceive language.
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