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coming soon – new book by Mark Johnson (‘The Meaning of the Body’)

Written on July 4, 2007

The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson is coming soon from the University of Chicago Press, with a scheduled release date of July 15 (according to Amazon.com). 11u-lpo9lzl_aa_sl160_.jpg Johnson is co-author with George Lakoff of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. Johnson is also the author of The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason.

For more on “embodied cognition”: (1)Embodied cognition: a field guide by Michael L. Anderson (2003, pdf) , (2) article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Also Evan Thompson, who was a co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, has recently published Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind.

Filed in: cognitive science,mind,new books.

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