In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.

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

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

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.

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

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

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.