Monday Profile: Rafael E. Núñez

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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VIDEO: George Lakoff on Framing and Embodied Conceptual Metaphor

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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Monday Profile: George Lakoff

If any single figure could be considered the guru for the current embodied philosophy movement, it has to be George Lakoff. Although technically a linguist, he is probably best known for his extensive interdisciplinary work in cognitive science, conceptual metaphor and politics. His published work includes the closest thing to a bible in the embodiment [...]

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Study Shows the Power of Conceptual Metaphor

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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