Philosophy in the flesh
Subtitle: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
By: George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Mark, 1949-
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Cognitive science
Description: Lakoff and Johnson show that a philosophy 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 philosophy.

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 philosophy: how we conceive rationality, and how we conceive language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 584-601) and index.