The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical..

Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most pe….

Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan learned, which is that people vote not on the basis of issues and policy details, but on the basis of som….

Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be….

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both thi….

One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, t….

In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set ….

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind..

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another..

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do..

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends..

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional ….

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain..

Conservatives say human beings are people who are primarily concerned with self-interest, and that's what they should be concerned with - self-intere….

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object contr….

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central….

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct..

We now know, from the latest research about neurons, that we are hard-wired for empathy. We're hard-wired for cooperation. That is something about wh….

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidi….

If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of things. There are people wh….

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has ….