9780226500256-022650025X-Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

ISBN-13: 9780226500256
ISBN-10: 022650025X
Edition: 1
Author: Mark Johnson
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226500256
ISBN-10: 022650025X
Edition: 1
Author: Mark Johnson
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages

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Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (ISBN-13: 9780226500256 and ISBN-10: 022650025X), written by authors Mark Johnson, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Cognitive Psychology (Behavioral Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cognitive Psychology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.67.

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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 cofounding (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 nondualistic, nonreductive 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.

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