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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 APHORICAL. 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. For instance, we have two mutually incompatible metaphors for time, both of which represent it as movement t

Who reads Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought?

Author

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

Publisher

Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780465056743

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Philosophy

Rating

4.06 / 5 (990 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14