George Lakoff Quotes

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability t...

...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual...

In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concept...

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences c...

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely object...

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The...

The properties of mind are not purely mental: They are shaped in crucial ways by the body and brain ...

The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather,...

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and insep...

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of m...

When we understand all that constitutes the cognitive unconscious, our understanding of the nature o...

In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to wh...

Why didn't the Democrats accomplish more right after the 2006 elections that gave them control of Co...

pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stab...

If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will thi...

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconsc...

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.