The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan learned, which is that people vote not on the basis of issues and policy details, but on the basis of something deeper, namely, what are your values? Are you authentic? Do you say what you believe? Do you communicate with us? And do we identify with you? You don't know what particular issues are going to come up in the future, so you have to depend on someone's values, and whether they are telling you the truth, and whether you can trust them in office. Obama's been running a campaign on that basis.