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Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Basic Books, 1999Description: xiv, 624 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0465056733
  • 9780465056736
  • 0465056741
  • 9780465056743
Other title:
  • Embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Philosophy in the flesh.; Online version:: Philosophy in the flesh.DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 128 L192P 21
LOC classification:
  • BD418.3 .L35 1999
Contents:
Introduction : Who are we? -- The cognitive unconscious -- The embodied mind -- Primary metaphor and subjective experience -- The anatomy of complex metaphor -- Embodied realism : cognitive science versus a priori philosophy -- Realism and truth -- Metaphor and truth -- The cognitive science of philosophical ideas -- Time -- Events and causes -- The mind -- The self -- Morality -- The cognitive science of philosophy -- The pre-Socratics : the cognitive science of early Greek metaphysics -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Descartes and the Enlightenment mind -- Kantian morality -- Analytic philosophy --Chomsky's philosophy and cognitive linguistics -- The theory of rational action -- How philosophical theories work -- Philosophy in the flesh
Summary: Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 128 L192P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 064906

Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-601) and index

Introduction : Who are we? -- The cognitive unconscious -- The embodied mind -- Primary metaphor and subjective experience -- The anatomy of complex metaphor -- Embodied realism : cognitive science versus a priori philosophy -- Realism and truth -- Metaphor and truth -- The cognitive science of philosophical ideas -- Time -- Events and causes -- The mind -- The self -- Morality -- The cognitive science of philosophy -- The pre-Socratics : the cognitive science of early Greek metaphysics -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Descartes and the Enlightenment mind -- Kantian morality -- Analytic philosophy --Chomsky's philosophy and cognitive linguistics -- The theory of rational action -- How philosophical theories work -- Philosophy in the flesh

Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self

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