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A clearing in the forest : law, life and mind

Author:Steven L. Winter

Summary:A "revolution" in the cognitive sciences has irrevocable transformed our basic understanding of the mind, establishing that imagination is both central to cognition and that imagination is an orderly, systematic, embodied process. This book applies this understanding to the discipline of law

Print Book, English, 2021

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: Chicago university press, Chicago, 2021

Physical Description:xx, 426 s. : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9780226902210, 9780226902227, 0226902218, 0226902226

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1415746494

Subjects:

Law Methodology

Contents:

A Clearing in the Forest

Embodiment

What Is Metaphor?

Radial Categories

Compositional Structure

The Doctrinal Wheel

What Is the "Color of Law"?

How Do Rules Work?

Reasoning by Analogy

Innovation

Within Reason

Meaning and Making