Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-600) and indexes.

Book I: The mind beyond the machine -- Part I: Categories and cognitive methods -- The importance of categorization -- From Wittgenstein to Rosch -- Prototype effects in language -- Idealized cognitive models -- Metonymic models -- Radial categories -- Feature, stereotypes, and defaults -- More about cognitive models -- Defenders of the classical view -- Review -- Part II: 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 -- Book II: Case studies -- Introduction -- Anger -- Over -- There-constructions.

"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. ... Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."--David E. Leary, "American Scientist."