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The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience - the awarenes...more

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The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, e...more

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The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part of our being. It is the locus of our e...more

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The properties of mind are not purely mental: They are shaped in crucial ways by the body and brain and how the body can function in everyday life. Th...more

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...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose l...more

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...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The ...more

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In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concepts, including time, causation, morality, and the mi...more

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Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unconscious conceptual systems ar...more