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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind is a non-fiction book by the cognitive linguist George Lakoff. The book, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1987, puts forward a model of cognition argued on the basis of semantics. The book emphasises the centrality of metaphor, defined as the mapping of cognitive structures from one domain onto another, in the cognitive process.[1] Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things explores the effects of cognitive metaphors, both culturally specific and human-universal, on the grammar per se of several languages, and the evidence of the limitations of the classical logical-positivist or Anglo-American School philosophical concept of the category usually used to explain or describe the scientific method.

 

 

 

The book's title was inspired by the noun class system of the Dyirbal language, in which the "feminine" category includes nouns for women, water, fire, violence, and certain animals.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Mind beyond the Machine

Categories and Cognitive Models

The Importance of Categorization

From Wittgenstein to Rosch

Prototype Effects in Language

Idealized Cognitive Models

Metonymic Models

Radical Categories

Features, Stereotypes, and Defaults

More about Cognitive Models

Defenders of the Classical View

Review

Philosophical Implications

The Objectivist Paradigm

What's Wrong with Objectivist Metaphysics

What's Wrong with Objectivist Cognition

The Formalist Enterprise

Putnam's Theorem

A New Realism

Cognitive Semantics

Whorf and Relativism

The Mind-As-Machine Paradigm

Mathematics as a Cognitive Activity

Overview

Case Studies

Introduction

Anger

Over

There-Constructions

Afterword

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.