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Author Lakoff, George, author.

Title Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1999]
©1999

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  128 L192P    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 624 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-601) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.
Subject Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive science.
Cognitive science. (OCoLC)fst00866547
Philosophy of mind. (OCoLC)fst01060840
Filosofie van de geest.
Lichaam en geest.
Kognitive Semantik. (DE-588)4618915-4
Philosophy of Mind. (DE-588)4248301-3
Kognitionswissenschaft. (DE-588)4193780-6
Filosofía de la mente.
Ciencia cognoscitiva.
Empirical Research.
Added Author Johnson, Mark, 1949- author.
Added Title Embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
Other Form: Online version: Lakoff, George. Philosophy in the flesh. New York : Basic Books, ©1999 (OCoLC)607121446
Online version: Lakoff, George. Philosophy in the flesh. New York : Basic Books, ©1999 (OCoLC)609201492
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9780465056736 (acid-free paper)
0465056741
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