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In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to which we have no direct access, and metaphorical tho...more

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Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Animals fight to get what they want--food, sex, territo...more

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pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findings--the embodied mind, the cog...more

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When we understand all that constitutes the cognitive unconscious, our understanding of the nature of consciousness is vastly enlarged. Consciousness ...more

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

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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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Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depen...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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...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is a...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