Academic

Lakoff on Metaphor & Neuroscience

By Lawrence Solum

George Lakoff (University of California, Berkeley) has posted The Neural Theory of Metaphor on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

The neural revolution is changing our understanding of the brain and the mind in radical ways, and that is no less true in the theory of metaphor. It is 30 years since Mark Johnson and I wrote Metaphors We Live By in 1979. Though the fundamental outlines of what we discovered remain as valid today as they were then, developments in brain science and neural computation have vastly enriched our understanding of how conceptual metaphor works. This is an intermediate report, as of January 2009.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).