Abstract
* Introduction: Who Are We? How The Embodied Mind Challenges The Western Philosophical Tradition * 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 Basic Philosophical Ideas * The Cognitive Science of Philosophical Ideas * Time * Events and Causes * The Mind * The Self * Morality The Cognitive Science Of Philosophy * 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 * Chomskys Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics * The Theory of Rational Action * How Philosophical Theories Work Embodied Philosophy * Philosophy in the Flesh
Keywords
FleshEmbodied cognitionWestern thoughtPhilosophyAestheticsLiteratureEpistemologyArtChemistry
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George Lakoff,
Mark Johnson
(1999).
Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought.
Choice Reviews Online
, 37
(01)
, 37-0239.
https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-0239
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- DOI
- 10.5860/choice.37-0239