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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, (c)1999.Description: xiv, 624 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780465056736
  • 9780465056743
Other title:
  • Embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD418 .P455 1999
  • BD418
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Contents:
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.
Subject: Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.
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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction BD418.3 .L35 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 31923001787528

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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