Posted in Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, Linguistics, Mathematics, Monday Profile, Neuroscience, Psychology, philosophy, tagged Aymara, cognitive linguistics, Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, embodied cognition, Embodied Cognition Laboratory, embodiment, George Lakoff, mathematical cognition, Platonism, Rafael E. Núñez, Rafael Nunez, spontaneous gestures, UCSD, Where Mathematics Comes From on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rafael E. Núñez is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. He is, of course, a major proponent of embodied cognition and his monumental work, Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being, written with George Lakoff, has revolutionized the understanding of mathematical cognition.
The publication [...]
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Posted in Anthropology, Conceptual Metaphor, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Perception, Psychology, Video, philosophy, tagged affection is warmth, Conceptual Metaphor, embodied metaphor, embodied mind, embodiment, frames, framing, George Lakoff, Lakoff, metaphor, more is up, the political mind, Video on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although it’s a segment within a discussion about political framing, in this video clip George Lakoff discusses how embodiment comes to frame our ideas and perception through conceptual metaphor.
Within, he discusses how every word, in every language, is defined relative to a frame.
He also theorizes about the embodied source of certain well studied conceptual [...]
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Posted in Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Epistemology, Feminist Thought, Monday Profile, Perception, philosophy, tagged biology, cyberculture, cyborg manifesto, cyborgs, Donna Haraway, embodiment, Epistemology, essentialism, feminism, feminist epistemology, gender, history of consciousness, Perception, philosophy, primatology, race, situated knowledge, subject and object, vision, zoology on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Donna Haraway is currently a professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She began her career studying Zoology and Philosophy, and eventually earned her Ph.D. in Biology from Yale in 1972.
Haraway’s most central contribution to the study of embodiment comes at an intersection between [...]
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Posted in Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, Perception, Psychology, tagged Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, embodied cognition, embodiment, metaphor, power of suggestion, Psychological Science, Psychology on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A new study appearing in the journal of Psychological Science suggests that the metaphor of social coldness can make the body actually feel cold.
Subjects in the study, when shrugged off and left socially isolated, believed that room temperature was significantly lower than subjects who were involved in social interaction. The study also found that [...]
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