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Author Lakoff, George.

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

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, c1999.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  128.2 L149p    ---  Available
Description xiv, 624 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Subject Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive science.
Added Author Johnson, Mark, 1949-
ISBN 0465056733 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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