ABSTRACT
We humans are incarnate. Our embodiment shapes both what and how we experience, think, mean, imagine, reason, and communicate. Th is claim is a bold one, and it fl ies in the face of our received wisdom that what we call “mind” and “body” are not one and the same but rather are somehow fundamentally diff erent in kind. From a philosophical point of view, one of the hardest tasks you will ever face is coming to grips with the fact of your embodiment. What makes this task so very diffi cult is the omnipresent idea of disembodied mind and thought that shows itself throughout our intellectual tradition, from claims about pure logical form, to ideas of noncorporeal thought, to spectator views of knowledge, to correspondence theories of truth. Everywhere you turn, the mysterious exotic snail of disembodied mind leaves its shiny, slippery trail through our views of thought, language, and knowledge.
