Recommended Reading on Framing, Politics, and Cognitive Science
The Rockridge Institute has compiled the following list of books related to cognitive science, politics, and framing. The list includes works by Rockridge Institute scholars as well as other scholars from fields including neurology, philosophy, and law. Some of the books express the progressive values that we promote; however, the Rockridge Institute does not endorse any partisan statements that they may contain.
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Books by Other Authors
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Drew Westen:
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
This groundbreaking investigation by a renowned psychologist and neuroscientist proves it: We vote with our hearts, not our minds.
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Jeffrey Feldman:
Framing the Debate
Famous Presidential Speeches and How Progressives Can Use Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections)
An essential book in today's political climate, Framing the Debate will be instrumental in helping to reshape progressive political language and rhetoric.
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Jerome A. Feldman:
From Molecule to Metaphor
A Neural Theory of Language
With this accessible, comprehensive book Feldman offers readers who want to understand how our brains create thought and language a theory of language that is intuitively plausible and also consistent with existing scientific data at all levels.
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Antonio Damasio:
Descartes' Error
Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
In Descartes' Error, neurologist Antonio Damasio shows that rational thought depends upon emotions.
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Raymond Gibbs:
The Poetics of Mind
Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding
Raymond Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.
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Mark Johnson:
Moral Imagination
Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
Discover how our morality is imaginatively structured and based on metaphor.
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Steven Winter:
A Clearing in the Forest
Law, Life, and Mind
A fascinating examination of the law in light of recent discoveries in cognitive science
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Books by Rockridge Authors
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George Lakoff:
The Political Mind
Why You Can't Understand 21st Century American Politics with an 18th Century Brain
In What's the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why.
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George Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute:
Thinking Points
Communicating our American Values and Vision -- A Progressive's Handbook
Thinking Points is an essential tool kit for anyone who wants to participate in shaping an America that serves the common good.
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András Szántó (editor):
What Orwell Didn't Know
Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics
Six decades after George Orwell's classic essay "Politics and the English Language," twenty prominent voices, including Rockridge Institute founder George Lakoff, examine the prospects for democracy in light of contemporary forms of deception.
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George Lakoff:
Whose Freedom?
The Battle over America's Most Important Idea
In Whose Freedom?, Lakoff shows that the right has effected a devastatingly coherent and ideological redefinition of freedom.
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Glenn W. Smith:
The Politics of Deceit
Saving Freedom and Democracy from Extinction
A compelling indictment of the Bush Administration's cynical, anti-democratic manipulation of the media
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George Lakoff:
Don't Think of an Elephant!
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
The book that challenged the last forty years of conservative dominance of the national public policy debate
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George Lakoff:
Moral Politics
How Liberals and Conservatives Think
A fresh look at how we think and talk about political and moral ideas.
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George Lakoff and Mark Johnson:
Philosophy in the Flesh
The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
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George Lakoff and Mark Johnson:
Metaphors We Live By
A seminal work on the fundamental importance of metaphors in thought, and where they come from.
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George Lakoff:
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
What Categories Reveal About the Mind
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George Lakoff and Mark Turner:
More Than Cool Reason
A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
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George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez:
Where Mathematics Comes From
How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
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