Philosophy In The Flesh George Lakoff Basic Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences

What Are Human Beings Like? How Is Knowledge Possible? Truth? Where Do Moral Values Come From? Questions Like These Have Stood At The Centre Of Western Philosophy For Centuries In Addressing Them Philosophers Made Certain Fundamental Assumptions That We Can Know Our Own Minds By Introspection Most Thinking About World Literal And Reason Disembodied Universal Now Called Into Question Well-Established Results Cognitive Science It Has Been Shown Empirically That:most Thought Unconscious No Direct Conscious Access To Mechanisms Language Ideas Go Too Quickly Deep A Level Us Observe Any Simple Way Abstract Concepts Mostly Metaphorical Much Subject Matter Philosopy Such As Nature Time Morality Causation Mind Self Relies Heavily On Basic Metaphors Derived From Bodily Experience Reasoning Minimal Conceptually Impoverished All Richness Comes Metaphor Instance Two Mutually Incompatible Both Which Represent Movement Through Space: One Flow Past Other Spatial Dimension Move Along Embodied Requires Body Not Trivial Sense You Need Physical Brain Think With But Profound Very Structure Thoughts Nearly Based Common Experiences Central Themes Philosophical Tradition Findings Cartesian Person Wholly Separate Does Exist Kantian Capable Action According Dictates Phenomenological Knowing His Or Her Entirely Alone Utilitarian Chomskian Poststructuralist Computational Defined Analytic Then Does?Lakoff Johnson Show Responsible Offers Radically New Detailed Understandings After First Describing Stance Must Follow Taking Seriously They Re-Examine Self: Rethink Host Traditions Classical Greeks Modern Reveal Underlying Each Mode Metaphysics Theory Flows Its Finally Take Major Issues Twentieth-Century Philosopy: Conceive Rationality Flesh Reveals Understanding Means Be Calls Thorough Rethinking This Never Seen Before Σελίδες: 640 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1008 Διαστάσεις: 18X18Cm