Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
Zoomicon-zoom-in
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

By
Mark Johnson (Author)  

Hardback

Available / dispatched within 1 - 4 weeks

Quantity
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 co-founding (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 non-dualistic, non-reductive 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.
Mark Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.
  • Contributor: Mark Johnson
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226500119
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 16x23x2mm
  • Packaged Weight: 454
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 2018-02-02
  • Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Mark Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.

Delivery Options

Home Delivery

Store Delivery

Free Returns

We hope you are delighted with everything you buy from us. However, if you are not, we will refund or replace your order up to 30 days after purchase. Terms and exclusions apply; find out more from our Returns and Refunds Policy.