Language and the Embodied Mind

LANGUAGE AND THE EMBODIED MIND

Robert N. St. Clair, Ph.D. Walter E. Rodriguez, M. D.,

Humanities Seminar 690

Course Description The biological foundations of knowledge are investigated within the philosophical paradigm of the embodied mind The role of biology in the creation of knowledge schemas was the focus of Piaget's concept of genetic structuralism. This model was further expanded by Merleau-Ponty and incorporated into the models of habitus and field by Bourdieu. Recently, the biological foundations of language have been incorporated into the second generation of cognitive linguistics by Lakoff and Johnson. The implications and the limitations of this model are investigated.

Textbooks Jean Piaget Biology and Knowledge Genetic Structuralism Maurice Mearleu-Ponty The Phenomenology of Perception Pierre Bourdieu An Introduction to Reflexive Sociology Mark Johnson The Body in the Mind George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Philosophy in the Flesh Course pack: Language and the Embodied Mind Robert N. St. Clair and Walter E. Rodgriguez