Is all talk about the mind metaphorical?

2026/01/07 by Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, Lisa Bortolotti · 1 voice
Psychology · #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Social Representations and Identity #Categorization, perception, and language

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09515089.2026.2612840

Abstract

In his influential and provocative book, Mind as Metaphor, Adam Toon defends mental fictionalism, the view according to which there is no mind, but when we talk about the mental world of others we ...

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