Editing Mark Johnson (philosopher)

{{Short description|American philosopher (born 1949)}}
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'''Mark L. Johnson''' (born 24 May 1949) is [[Philip H. Knight Chairs and Professorships|Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences]] in the Department of Philosophy at the [[University of Oregon]].<ref name="profile">{{cite web|title=Mark L. Johnson Profile|url=http://pages.uoregon.edu/markj/|publisher=UO Philosophy Department}}</ref> He is known for contributions to [[embodied philosophy]], [[cognitive science]], and [[cognitive linguistics]], some of which he has coauthored with [[George Lakoff]], such as ''[[Metaphors We Live By]]''.  He has also published on philosophical topics such as [[John Dewey]], [[Immanuel Kant]], and [[ethics]].

==Bibliography==
* [http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo17322899.html ''Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science''], University of Chicago Press, 2014.
* [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/isbn/9780226401935.html ''The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding''], University of Chicago Press, 2007.
*  ''Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought'' (coauthored with [[George Lakoff]]), Basic Books, 1999.
*  [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/isbn/9780226401690.html ''Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics''], University of Chicago Press, 1993.
*  [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/isbn/9780226403182.html ''The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason''], University of Chicago Press, 1987.
* ''Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor'', University of Minnesota, 1981.
* ''[[Metaphors We Live By]]'' (coauthored with [[George Lakoff]]), University of Chicago Press, 1980; revised 2003.

==See also==
*[[Aesthetics]]
*[[American philosophy]]
*[[Cognitive neuroscience]]
*[[Cognitive semantics]]
*[[Conceptual blending]]
*[[Embodied cognition]]
*[[Embodied cognitive science]]
*[[Enactivism]]
*[[List of American philosophers]]
*[[Neurophenomenology]]
*[[Philosophy of mind]]
*[[Situated cognition]]

==References==
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==Other sources==
*  [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=287170407AD304196E6568672BBBF9CF?doi=10.1.1.87.4006&rep=rep1&type=pdf "We Are Live Creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism, and the Cognitive Organism"] (co-author, Tim Rohrer) (Link is to archived final pre-press draft.)  In ''Body, Language, and Mind'', vol. 1. Zlatev, Jordan; Ziemke, Tom; Frank, Roz; Dirven, René (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100528152659/http://www.uoregon.edu/~uophil/faculty/profiles/markj/ Mark Johnson's homepage]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100615153811/http://uoregon.edu/~uophil/index.php University of Oregon Department of Philosophy]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMeGdrKnEE The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding] (video, 1:27:52)

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