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Turbayne analyzes the significance of metaphor in human thought by exploring historical traditions of philosophy. Probing into the early philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, Turbayne traces the influence that Platonic metaphors have held for later important philosophers such as Berkeley and Kant. By showing how modern theories of human thought and language (including the substance and attribute theory) arose from the procreation model as presented in Plato's Timaeus, Turbayne makes a contribution to the current philosophical debates concerning relativist/realist. In the discussion, the author restores the model to its original state in which the female and male hemispheres of the mind work as partners to create our world.

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In this historically oriented study of the mind and mentality, Turbayne seeks to uncover and examine the roots of the subject-predicate (or the parallel substance-attribute) model of the mind. He argues unconvincingly that these models of mind encode an imbalance between the mind's active and passive powers, and that by returning to Plato's Timaeus we discover a "procreation" model of mind, whose further developments in Aristotle provide a superior framework for thinking about the mind. Although not lacking in insight, this book cannot be recommended for academic library purchase: the historical scholarship is thin and sometimes objectionable; the philosophical problems are not clearly articulated; and the overall relevance to contemporary philosophy of mind is questionable. -C. J. Shields, University of Colorado at Boulder