Works
- Metaphors We Live By, University of Chicago Press (with George Lakoff), 1980
- Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics, University of Chicago Press, 1993
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A University of Oregon philosopher of embodied mind. With George Lakoff he argued that ordinary thought is structured by conceptual metaphors, and in Moral Imagination he argued that moral reasoning works through metaphor, narrative, and imagined cases more than fixed rules.