The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason

An exploration of the central role the human imagination plays in all meaning, understanding, and reasoning.

"There are books . . . which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity." —San Francisco Chronicle

The Body in Mind explores the ways that meaning, understanding, and rationalit...