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The aesthetics of meaning and thought : the bodily roots of philosophy, science, morality, and art / Mark Johnson.
LIBRA BH39 .J63 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Mark, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Experience.
- Pragmatism.
- Philosophy and cognitive science.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The aesthetics of embodied life
- Part I. Philosophy and science. Pragmatism, cognitive science, and the embodied mind
- Philosophy's debt to metaphor
- Experiencing language : what's missing in linguistic pragmatism?
- Keeping the pragmatism in neuropragmatism
- Metaphor-based values in scientific models
- Part II. Morality and law. Cognitive science and morality
- Moral imagination
- Mind, metaphor, law
- Part III. Art and the aesthetics of life. Identity, bodily meaning, and art
- Dewey's big idea for aesthetics
- The embodied meaning of architecture
- What becomes of philosophy, morality, and art?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226538808
- 022653880X
- 9780226538945
- 022653894X
- OCLC:
- 988171908
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