Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
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Paperback The item is fairly worn but still readable. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. May have page creases, creased spine, bent cover or markings inside. Packed with care, shipped promptly.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Motor_City_Books.
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 center 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 go by too quickly and at too deep a level for us to observe them in any simple way.Abstract concepts are mostly metaphorical. Much of the subject matter of philosopy, 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. For instance, we have two mutually incompatible metaphors for time, both of which represent it as movement through space: in one it is a flow past us and in the other a spatial dimension we move along.Mind is embodied. Thought requires a body—not in the trivial sense that you need a physical brain to think with, but in the profound sense that the very structure of our thoughts comes from the nature of the body. Nearly all of our unconscious metaphors are based on common bodily experiences.Most of the central themes of the Western philosophical tradition are called into question by these findings. The Cartesian person, with a mind wholly separate from the body, does not exist. The Kantian person, capable of moral action according to the dictates of a universal reason, does not exist. The phenomenological person, capable of knowing his or her mind entirely through introspection alone, does not exist. The utilitarian person, the Chomskian person, the poststructuralist person, the computational person, and the person defined by analytic philosopy all do not exist.Then what does?Lakoff and Johnson show that a philosopy responsible to the science of mind offers radically new and detailed understandings of what a person is. After first describing the philosophical stance that must follow from taking cognitive science seriously, they re-examine the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self: then they rethink a host of philosophical traditions, from the classical Greeks through Kantian morality through modern analytic philosopy. They reveal the metaphorical structure underlying each mode of thought and show how the metaphysics of each theory flows from its metaphors. Finally, they take on two major issues of twentieth-century philosopy: how we conceive rationality, and how we conceive language.Philosopy in the Flesh reveals a radically new understanding of what it means to be human and calls for a thorough rethinking of the Western philosophical tradition. This is philosopy as it has never been seen before., Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1st, Label: Basic Books, Basic Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1999-12-01, Studio: Basic Books, Verkaufsrang: 405711.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
Basic Books. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that'll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Book Deals [60506629], Lewiston, NY, U.S.A.
This Book is in Good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear. 100% Guaranteed. Summary: Recent findings of cognitive science that are shattering long-held assumptions about man's ability to reason and contemplate. This pathbreaking volume by the authors of Metaphors We Live By (100,000 copies in print) is the first book to fully explore the impact of these findings. It traces the paths of scientific missiles that have exploded our philosophical bedrock, while laying the groundwork for the next stage in philosophical thought.In the style of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson break down complex concepts in easy-to-follow terms. They clarify how three major discoveries -- the workings of mind cannot be separated from the anatomy and physiology of brain; thought is mostly unconscious; and abstract concepts are largely metaphorical -- refute the long-held view that reason is independent of the body, literal, directly accessible to conscious reflection, and uniquely human.Keen insights into concepts of time, mind, self, and morality accompanyreexaminations of philosophical traditions from those of the classical Greeks through Kantian morality. Finally, the book takes on two major issues in modern philosophy: how we conceive rationality and how we conceive language. Nothing short of revolutionary, this instant classic will become a seminal treatise on philosophy for the new millennium.

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consciousness and thought,history and surveys,humanism,humanities,modern,movements,philosophy,politics and social sciences,textbooks, Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind And Its Challenge To Western Thought, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson take on the daunting task of rebuilding Western philosophy in alignment with three fundamental lessons from cognitive science: The mind is inherently embodied, thought is mostly unconscious, and abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. Why so daunting? "Cognitive science--the empirical study of the mind--calls upon us to create a new, empirically responsible philosophy, a philosophy consistent with empirical discoveries about the nature of mind," they write. "A serious appreciation of cognitive science requires us to rethink philosophy from the beginning, in a way that would put it more in touch with the reality of how we think." In other words, no Platonic forms, no Cartesian mind-body duality, no Kantian pure logic. Even Noam Chomsky's generative linguistics is revealed under scrutiny to have substantial problems. Parts of Philosophy in the Flesh retrace the ground covered in the authors' earlier Metaphors We Live By, which revealed how we deal with abstract concepts through metaphor. (The previous sentence, for example, relies on the metaphors "Knowledge is a place" and "Knowing is seeing" to make its point.) Here they reveal the metaphorical underpinnings of basic philosophical concepts like time, causality--even morality--demonstrating how these metaphors are rooted in our embodied experiences. They repropose philosophy as an attempt to perfect such conceptual metaphors so that we can understand how our thought process.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials. Paperback.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arcana Books.
Jan 01, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. About fine paperback.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Friends of Dublin Library, CA, Castro Valley, [RE:5].
624 p. incl. index. Subject: Philosophy. Hard cover.

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Softcover book. Published by Basic Books (1999).