Embodied mind, meaning, and reason : how our bodies give rise to understanding / Mark Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Mark, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Philosophy of mind.

Human body (Philosophy).

Meaning (Philosophy).

Consciousness.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selections of essays from the past two decades to argue for the central importance of our bodies in everything we experiences, mean, think, say, value, and do. This embodied conception of mind shows how meaning and thought are profoundly shaped and constituted by the nature of our bodily perception, action, and feeling. In short, Johnson convincingly argues that it is impossible to understand any of the issues that are so dear to philosophy without a deep and detailed understanding of how our embodiment gives rise to experience, meaning, and thought. Johnson begins with ideas that were anticipated, in part, in the writing scientific and philosophical development that take us beyond what Dewey could provide in his time. By constructing a positive account of human meaning-making that draws on the cognitive sciences of the embodied mind, Johnson's accounts runs directly counter to some of the fundamental assumptions in analytics philosophy and early cognitive science of the last seventy-five years. Concluding with a rich exploration of the implications of our embodiment for our understanding of knowledge, reason, and truth, Embodied Mind Meaning, and Reason is indispensable to all philosophers dealing with mind, thought, and language. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: bringing the body to mind

Cognitive science and Dewey's theory of mind, thought, and language

Cowboy bill rides herd on the range of consciousness

We are live creatures: embodiment, American pragmatism, and the cognitive organism / Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer

The meaning of the body

The philosophical significance of image schemas

Action, embodied meaning, and thought

Knowing through the body

Embodied realism and truth incarnate

Why the body matters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226500119

022650011X

9780226500256

022650025X

OCLC:

975397624