The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason.

Contents 

Preface IX 

Acknowledgments XVll 

Introduction: The Context and Nature of This Study XIX 

The Need for a Richer Account of Meaning and Reason 

2 The Emergence of Meaning through Schematic Structure 18 

3 Gestalt Structure as a Constraint on Meaning 41 

4 Metaphorical Projections of Image Schemata 65 

5 How Schemata Constrain Meaning, Understanding, and 

Rationality IOI 

6 Toward a Theory of imagination 139 

7 On the Nature of Meaning 173 

8 "All This, and Realism, Too!" 194 

Notes 213 

Index 229