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title: "Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind & its Challenge to Western Thought"
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# Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind & its Challenge to Western Thought

**Brand:** george lakoffmark johnson
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- **What is this?** Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind & its Challenge to Western Thought by george lakoffmark johnson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lakoff and Johnson are high caliber scientists
*by P***Y on April 9, 2013*

I bought this along with a book by Dan Dennett (on free-will) and Charles Peirce (on semiotics). Dennett's book was terrible, especially in contrast to this well written and clear book. I am a fan of Peirce's semiotics and some examples in this book "embodied" many of his concept. I was really shocked at how many parallels I was finding. Arriving at truths independently is a good sign. Lakoff and Johnson are true scientists. Peirce may be thought of as a quack although he was a genius, but L&J, while maybe not complete geniuses (rare these days anyway, see Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil on that topic for why), they are scientists of the highest order. Much better than say Pinker or even worse, Chomsky!This book is a must read for any psychology, linguistics, logic, or philosophy major.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reliable source
*by P***L on March 26, 2025*

The book was as good as stated and I was very satisfied.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Noted philosopher and linguist team makes strong case for fundamental rewrite of Western philosophy.
*by A***M on September 27, 2013*

This heavy book's theme is essentially this: Based on what we have learned about ourselves over the several centuries from the advances in science, we can now state decisively that most of our philosophical speculations of the last 2000+ years are wrong and need to be opened up, updated, and rewritten. The pace of expansion of our modern knowledge base has left our scholarly and popular consciousness far behind, and we need a fairly radical reorientation of our world view to incorporate new findings into what Lakoff and Johnson dub "empirically responsible philosophy." Anything less than a complete rewrite will leave a detritus of old and long disproven thought to clog the path ahead. Of course, a revolutionary revision like as they suggest would be bound to create massive dislocations of its own, with results that would be inestimable in any terms. The title of the book, Philosophy in the Flesh, places Exhibit A in the trial of our legacy worldview right on the cover. Our traditional philosophy removes the mind from the body, while all current research shows it to be firmly ensconced in the brain. We are in the position of Galileo in the 17th century, who was accused of murdering the angels who had to push the planets around in their orbits to accommodate Aristotelian physical concepts. The Scientific Revolution changed everything, but much of our modern mind still clings to older views now known to be false, including a good deal of the model the Scientific Revolution posed as an alternative to even older ideas. This is a good book for anyone interested in gauging the disconnect between ancient, ancient-modern, and modern views of nature, mind, and self. Whether you agree or disagree with their claims, these authors have posed a challenge that must be met with something other than the denialism so prominent in many areas of science, history, and philosophy.

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