Este es un libro sobre nuestros marcos mentales, es decir, sobre las estructuras que conforman lo que pensamos, aquellas que hacen que seamos capaces de ignorar los hechos cuando la información que recibimos no se ajusta a lo que esperamos. ¿...
Lingüista y analista político, George Lakoff es una de las figuras más relevantes del pensamiento actual. Puntos de reflexión viene a desmontar los artificios demagógicos de la derecha y ofrece ideas y propuestas para arti...
Pocas obras hacen cambiar de tal forma nuestra visión de la lengua que utilizamos como " Metáforas de la vida cotidiana " . George Lakoff y Mark Johnson, lingüista y filósofo respectivamente, explican cómo la...
Aplicando la psicología cognitiva a la política, hace dos décadas Política moral redefinió la manera en que los estadounidenses piensan y hablan sobre la política. Progresistas y conservadores simplemente mantiene...
When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoffâs classic text has become all the more relevant,...
One of the world 's best-known linguists and cognitive scientists, George Lakoff has a knack for making science make sense for general readers. In his new book, Lakoff spells out what cognitive science has discovered about reason, and reveals that...
"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology...
Lakoff and Johnson propose to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, starting from clearly known facts about the mind. They take on two major issues in 20th-century philosophy: how we conceive rationality and how we conceive language.
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social exper...