Citizens can go now and listen to the Not School discussion of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's book Philosophy In The Flesh. The rest of you can listen to an excerpt as part of our PEL Not School Digest #3 Quasisode. The following is brought to you by the group leader and now-PEL-Not-School Guardian Evan Gould: I want you to think about Time for a "moment." How do you Continue Reading …
Not School Digest #3: The Future of Work, Blood Meridian, Embodied Mind, and Heidegger
Excerpts of discussions about Frithjof Bergmann's New Work, New Culture, Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, and Martin Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism." Given rising economic productivity, we should all be working less, but we're not, and the job system is Continue Reading …
Not School: George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s “In the Flesh”
Featuring Evan Gould, Steve Lindsay, and Michael Burgess. About "embodied cognition," which rejects the folk understanding of rationality as disembodied. Recorded 8/2/13. The book opens with the following claims: The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. These are three major findings of cognitive science. Continue Reading …