Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

by Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values.

A brief account of Johnson's own intellectual journey,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022650025X
• ISBN13: 9780226500256
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"