Book Details
The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought : The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
ISBN 9780226538945
Pages 304
Year 2018
Edition 0
Publisher UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Subject PHILOSOPHY
Description
All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world—and any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of the mind must take into account the ways that cognition, meaning, language, action, and values are grounded in and shaped by that embodiment.
About Author(s)
Mark Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon and the author of numerous books.
Content
Introduction: The Aesthetics of Embodied Life
Part One: Philosophy and Science
1. Pragmatism, Cognitive Science, and the Embodied Mind
2. Philosophy’s Debt to Metaphor
3. Experiencing Language: What’s Missing in Linguistic Pragmatism?
4. Keep the Pragmatism in Neuropragmatism
5. Metaphor-Based Values in Scientific Models
Part Two: Morality and Law
6. Cognitive Science and Morality
7. Moral Imagination
8. Mind, Metaphor, Law
Part Three: Art and the Aesthetics of Life
9. Identity, Bodily Meaning, and Art
10. Dewey’s Big Idea for Aesthetics
11. The Embodied Meaning of Architecture
12. What Becomes of Philosophy, Morality, and Art?
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
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