The Meaning of the Body

By Mark E. Johnson. 2007

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Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? (2011, unknown): “Johnson (2007) conceives of meaning as an embodied product of transactions betweenorganismand environment: “ . meaningisnot just amatter of concepts and propositions, but also reaches down into the images, sensorimotor schemas, feelings, qualities, and emotions that constitute our meaningful…”
The Value of Fostering Physical Literacy (2018, background): “And this is not the end of the story as Johnson (1999) reminds us that “as we grow up we do not somehow magically cast off these modes of meaning making, rather these bodily based meaning structures underlie our conceptualization and reasoning, including our most abstract modes of thought” (p. 36).”
Embodied Enactive Dance/Movement Therapy (2011, background): “Phenomenological philosopher Mark Johnson (2007) suggests looking at felt qualities, images, feelings, and emotions that ground our more abstract structures of meaning making: ‘‘It is our organic flesh and blood, our structural bones, the ancient rhythm of our internal organs, and the pulsing flow o”
Philosophical Antecedents of Situated Cognition (2008, background): “An 4 One clear exception to this is Johnson (2007), who borrows extensively from Dewey to support his conception of embodied, situated cognition. idea is not primarily an intellectual entity in the head but “an organic anticipation of what will happen when certain operations are executed under and…”