Mark L. Johnson (born 24 May 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri) is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the

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. He is known for contributions to

embodied philosophy Embodied cognition is the theory that many features of cognition, whether human or otherwise, are shaped by aspects of an organism's entire body. Sensory and motor systems are seen as fundamentally integrated with cognitive processing. The cognit ...

, cognitive science and

cognitive linguistics Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are con ...

, some of which he has coauthored with George Lakoff such as ''

Metaphors We Live By ''Metaphors We Live By'' is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what they know about their direct physical and social experiences to understand more abstract ...

''. However, he has also published on philosophical topics such as John Dewey,

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...

and

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...

Bibliography

''Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science''
University of Chicago Press, 2014.

University of Chicago Press, 2007. * ''Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought'' (coauthored with George Lakoff), Basic Books, 1999. *
''Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics''
University of Chicago Press, 1993. *

University of Chicago Press, 1987. * ''Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor'', University of Minnesota, 1981. * ''

'' (coauthored with George Lakoff), University of Chicago Press, 1980; revised 2003.

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"We Are Live Creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism, and the Cognitive Organism"
(co-author, Tim Rohrer) (Link is to archived final pre-press draft.) In ''Body, Language, and Mind'', vol. 1. Zlatev, Jordan; Ziemke, Tom; Frank, Roz; Dirven, René (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.

External links

Mark Johnson's homepageUniversity of Oregon Department of PhilosophyThe Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
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