Quotes by : George Lakoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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