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Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
George Lakoff
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Paperback. Three major findings of cognitive science cast doubt on the past 2,500 years of Western philosophy. Lakoff and Johnson propose to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, starting from clearly known facts about the mind. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 187 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1108. The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. 640 pages. Lakoff and Johnson propose to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, starting from clearly known facts about the mind. They take on two major issues in 20th-century philosophy: how we conceive rationality and how we conceive language. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPC. Dimension: 234 x 187 x 41. Weight: 1112.
What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptions,that we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the world is literal, and that reason is disembodied and universal,that are now called into question by well-established results of cognitive science. It has been shown empirically that:Most thought is unconscious. We have no direct conscious access to the mechanisms of thought and language. Our ideas ... Read more
What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptions,that we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the world is literal, and that reason is disembodied and universal,that are now called into question by well-established results of cognitive science. It has been shown empirically that:Most thought is unconscious. We have no direct conscious access to the mechanisms of thought and language. Our ideas ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Basic Books New York
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
1094 g
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465056743
SKU
V9780465056743
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About George Lakoff
George Lakoff is professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, and the coauthor, with Mark Johnson, of Metaphors We Live By. He was one of the founders of the generative semantics movements in linguistics in the 1960s, a founder of the field of cognitive linguistics in the 1970s, and one of the developers of the neural theory ... Read more
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