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The Body in the Mind

The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason

"There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."—Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle

272 pages | 25 line drawings | 6.00 x 9.00 | © 1990

Cognitive Science: Human and Animal Cognition

Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind

Rhetoric and Communication

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Context and Nature of This Study
1. The Need for a Richer Account of Meaning and Reason
2. The Emergence of Meaning through Schematic Structure
3. Gestalt Structure as a Constraint on Meaning
4. Metaphorical Projections of Image Schemata
5. How Schemate Constrain Meaning, Understanding, and Rationality
6. Toward a Theory of Imagination
7. On the Nature of Meaning
8. "All This, and Realism Too!"
Notes
Index

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