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The aesthetics of meaning and thought : the bodily roots of philosophy, science, morality, and art / Mark Johnson.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226539133 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aesthetics of meaning and thought : the bodily roots of philosophy, science, morality, and art.DDC classification:
  • 111/.85 23
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Contents:
Introduction. The aesthetics of embodied life. Philosophy and science. Pragmatism, cognitive science, and the embodied mind -- Philosophy's debt to metaphor -- Experiencing language: what's missing in linguistic pragmatism? -- Keeping the pragmatism in neuropragmatism -- Metaphor-based values in scientific models -- Morality and law. Cognitive science and morality -- Moral imagination -- Mind, metaphor, law -- Art and the aesthetics of life. Identity, bodily meaning, and art -- Dewey's big idea for aesthetics -- The embodied meaning of architecture -- What becomes of philosophy, morality, and art?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The aesthetics of embodied life. Philosophy and science. Pragmatism, cognitive science, and the embodied mind -- Philosophy's debt to metaphor -- Experiencing language: what's missing in linguistic pragmatism? -- Keeping the pragmatism in neuropragmatism -- Metaphor-based values in scientific models -- Morality and law. Cognitive science and morality -- Moral imagination -- Mind, metaphor, law -- Art and the aesthetics of life. Identity, bodily meaning, and art -- Dewey's big idea for aesthetics -- The embodied meaning of architecture -- What becomes of philosophy, morality, and art?

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.