Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason - Mark Johnson

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason

How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-50011-9 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
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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 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.

Mark Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.

Erscheinungsdatum
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Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 23 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-226-50011-X / 022650011X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-50011-9 / 9780226500119
Zustand Neuware
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