Book completed

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The Neural Mind: How Brains Think, by George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan. This long-awaited book combines Lakoff’s interest in framing and conceptual metaphors with his earlier linguistics research and new findings in neuroscience to present hypotheses on the embodied, neural basis of cognition and how it relates to our use of language. When I say “long-awaited,” I’ll note that I have a 2018 book by Mark Johnson citing a 2017 manuscript of this book, but the book itself didn’t appear until this June. It’s thorough and the arguments are convincing. My background is relatively weak in neuroscience, so it was frustrating that those sections, especially, hadn’t received a careful copy-editing. Another oddity was that the References and Bibliography were formatted identically, so that when looking up a reference one might start with the Bibliography, fail to find it, then have to remember to turn to the References instead. They could certainly have been integrated.