Metaphor and Cognition: An Interactionist Approach

Bipin Indurkhya has written a wide-ranging and interesting work that is easy to read. Although Indurkhya's starting point is the puzzle of similarity-creating metaphors, the book is really about cognition and conceptual structure. In particular, he is concerned with the philosophical problem of reconciling the constructive nature of our concepts with the notion of a pre-existing mind-independent structure of reality. While the book covers a great deal of ground and is well worth reading, I feel that the basic theory is flawed in that it rests on a common philosophical view of meaning that has been considered inadequate.