Lakoff, George,

Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought / Embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. - New York : Basic Books, (c)1999. - xiv, 624 pages ; 24 cm



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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Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive science.

BD418 / .P455 1999 BD418