Mark L. Johnson (born on 24 May 1949) is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.
He is well-known for contributions to embodied philosophy, cognitive science and cognitive linguistics, some of which he has coauthored with George Lakoff such as Metaphors We Live By. However, he has also written extensively on philosophical topics such as John Dewey, Kant and ethics.
Main Publications
Metaphors We Live By. (1980)
Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor. (1981)
The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. (1987)
Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics. (1993)
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. (1999)
The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding. (2007)