Philosophy in the Flesh (Lakeoff - paperback)

Author: George Lakeoff, Mark Johnson

ISBN: 9780465056743

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

In addressing questions at the center of Western philosophy, 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 the results of cognitive science. It has been stated that most thought is unconscious. If so, much of the subject matter of philosophy, such as the nature of time, morality, causation, the mind, and the self, relies heavily on basic metaphors derived from bodily experience; What is literal in our reasoning about such concepts is minimal and conceptually impoverished; All the richness comes from metaphor; Mind is embodied.