Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind

✍ Scribed by Guy Dove;

• Publisher: OUP Premium
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
1.1 Embodied Cognition
1.2 Abstract Concepts
1.3 The Road Ahead
2 The Conceptual Brain
2.1 Two Dogmas of Concept Research
2.2 Questioning These Dogmas
2.3 Something We Do with the Mind
2.4 Elasticity and 4E Cognition
2.5 Staying Grounded
3 Body in Mind
3.1 Perception Systems
3.2 Action Systems
3.3 Simulation and Its Discontents
3.4 The Symbol Grounding Problem
3.5 Weak Versus Strong Embodiment
4 Three Problems
4.1 The Problem of Generalization
4.2 The Problem of Disembodiment
4.3 The Problem of Flexibility
4.4 Abstract Concepts Reconsidered
5 Hierarchies and Hubs
5.1 Beyond Unimodality
5.2 Hierarchical Organization
5.3 Higher-​Level Representations
5.4 Hubs and Spokes
5.5 Multimodal and Multilevel Representations
6 Language Is a Neuroenhancement
6.1 A Symbolic Medium
6.2 Thinking Without Words
6.3 Word and Thought
6.4 Labels
6.5 Word Associations
6.6 Syntax
6.7 Conversations
6.8 Abstract Concepts in the Brain
6.9 Language and the Embodied Mind
7 Heterogeneity
7.1 Affective Embodiment
7.2 Dimensions of Variation
7.3 Multiple Mechanisms
7.4 Grounding Reconsidered
8 Growth and Development
8.1 The Acquisition of Abstract Words
8.2 Relational Categories
8.3 Theory of Mind
8.4 Developmental Language Disorder
8.5 Multiple Cues
9 Metaphor
9.1 Conceptual Metaphor Theory
9.2 Language, Discourse, and Culture
9.3 The Living and the Dead (or Sleeping)
9.4 Development
9.5 Metaphors Are Elastic
10 The Elastic Mind
10.1 Causal Relevance
10.2 Theoretical Challenges
10.3 Hierarchical Representations
10.4 The Influence of Language
10.5 Synchronic and Diachronic Flexibility
10.6 Metaphor: A Case Study
10.7 The Elasticity of Abstract Concepts
10.8 The Future Is Now
References
Index