Mark L. Johnson (born 24 May 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri) is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is well-known for contributions to embodied philosophy, cognitive science and cognitive linguistics, some of which he has coauthored with George Lakoff such as Metaphors We Live By. However, he has also written extensively on philosophical topics such as John Dewey, Kant and ethics.
In his 1987 book The Body in The Mind he developed a theory of image schema as basic building blocks in cognitive linguistics for conceptual metaphor, as well as for language and abstract reason generally. He argued for a revised version of Kant's notion of the schema as the crucial imaginative link between our concrete perceptions of an object (e.g. my dog Fido) and our experience of categories (the class of things called dogs). However, where Kant wanted schemata to serve as a bridge between non-empirical concepts and perceptual images, Johnson maintained that image schema are regularly recurring embodied patterns of experience that are acquired during the course of early child development. Such schemata are image-like in that they are analogic neural activation patterns which preserve the topological contours of perceptual experience as a cohesive whole. Thus image schemata are rich images, in a sense of the term similar to how the rotation of Shepard and Metzler-like mental images preserves the visual contours of the 2D picture of the 3D object; in other words image schemata are not strictly 2D pictures, but a rich image-like whole that contain procedural as well as perceptual information about the object as a whole. Moreover, Johnson explicitly states that image schemata are not restricted to visual modality and can be kinesthetic, auditory and cross-modal.
Johnson argues that his and Lakoff's recent research (presented in Philosophy in the Flesh) on the role of such bodily schemas in cognition and language shows the ways in which aesthetic aspects of experience structure every dimension of our experience and understanding, such as in our ethical reasoning (as in his book Moral Imagination). In his interpretation of John Dewey, he claims that all our abstract conceptualization and reasoning, all our thought and language -- all our symbolic expression and interaction -- are tied intimately to our embodiment and to the pervasive aesthetic characteristics of all experience.
Mark Johnson (b. September 22, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Madison, Wisconsin) is a former United States ice hockey player who appeared in 669 NHL regular season games between 1980 and 1990 after playing for the Gold medal winning 1980 US Olympic Hockey team.
Mark 'MJ' Johnson (born May 23, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the AFL. After the 2007 season he was delisted before being selected by Fremantle in the AFL Draft.
Known for his toughness, Johnson was part of the midfield duo known as the "Johnson Boys" at Essendon, the other member being Jason Johnson. The two are not related, however Mark does have a brother who plays in the AFL for Geelong, David Johnson.
Johnson is commonly known as "Mr. Sunbury", referring to the body building award he won as a teenager in his home town of Sunbury, Victoria. He was elevated from the Essendon rookie list in 1998, playing his first game in 1999. He was part of the 2000 premiership side, and won the W.S. Crichton Medal in 2002.
He is a courageous player and sometimes his height and strength are underestimated by opposition players.
On October 15, Essendon announced that 29 year old Johnson was to be delisted by the club, giving him the option of nominating for the national draft. The decision to delist Johnson was unpopular to many Essendon fans who enjoyed Mark's 'hard at it' attitude to his footy.
In November 2007, Mark was training with rival club, the Kangaroos. In the 2007 AFL Draft however, he was drafted to West Australian club, Fremantle, where he will be reunited with former Essendon team mate Dean Solomon, who was traded by Essendon in 2006, and Kepler Bradley, also delisted by the Dons at the end of the 2007 season. The Essendon connection at Fremantle extends to their coach Mark Harvey, a three time premiership player with Essendon, and former assistant coach under Kevin Sheedy, as well as assistant coach Dean Wallis and Football Manager Robert Shaw.
Mark Rickland Johnson (born 28 October 1963 in Jamaica) is an American cricketer. He first played for the United States in the 1999 Red Stripe Bowl in his native Jamaica, and played for the US in the ICC Trophy in 2001 and 2005 and in the first-class ICC Intercontinental Cup in 2004. He also competed in the 2004 ICC Six Nations Challenge, which the Americans won to give them qualification to the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy in England. The United States their first-ever One Day Internationals in the competition - losing badly to New Zealand and then Australia. Johnson kept wicket in both those ODIs.
Johnson plays his domestic cricket in the South Florida Cricket League.
Marcellus Joseph Johnson, better known as Mark Johnson (born August 13, 1971, Washington, DC) is a boxer in the Super Flyweight division.
Mark "Beer Man" Johnson (born May 22, 1954) is an American professional golfer who plays on the Champions Tour.
Johnson was born in Barstow, California. He decided to forgo college and turned pro directly out of high school in 1972; he played on mini-tours around Southern California for two years, a decision which he regrets. Unable to support himself financially, Johnson regained his amateur status and for the next 18 years earned a living driving a Budweiser truck while continuing to hone his skills in amateur tournaments.
In 1998, at the age of 45, Johnson parked his beer truck and regained his professional status. With the sponsorship of his long-time employer, H Olson Distributing of Barstow, and a handful of local businessmen, Johnson played five years on the Canadian Tour and a year on the Nationwide Tour to prepare for the Champions Tour, which he joined after reaching the age of 50 in May 2004.
Johnson won his first Champions Tour event at the 2005 Toshiba Senior Classic in his 14th start. He won in spectacular fashion holing out an 89 yard wedge shot for an eagle at the 510 yard par-5 18th hole.
Johnson's status as a former beer truck driver has earned him somewhat of a cult following from Champions Tour galleries. It is not uncommon to hear someone shout, "Way to Go Beer Man" during rounds. Johnson embraces the Beer Man persona, and has even named his personal website beermangolf.com. He lives in Helendale, California.
Mark Johnson (born December 27, 1945 in Washington, D. C.) is a film producer who lives and works in the United States. He first became involved in show business in 1964 as an actor playing the sheriff's deputy in the Spanish "spaghetti western", "Brandy", directed by Jose Luis Borau. His American career began in 1974 working as a production assistant in television commercials. Johnson collaborated on several films with Barry Levinson (whom he met on the set of High Anxiety in 1977) including Diner, The Natural, Good Morning, Vietnam, Avalon, Bugsy and Toys. Receiving an Oscar for producing Rain Man. Recently he has produced several high profile projects for Walden Media such as The Chronicles of Narnia and How to Eat Fried Worms.
He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Producers Branch).
Mark Landon Johnson (born: September 12, 1975 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado) is a catcher in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. Standing at 6'0" and weighing 185 pounds, Johnson attended Warner Robins High School in Warner Robins, Georgia.
Batting left-handed but throwing right-handed, Johnson was drafted by the Chicago White Sox 26th overall in the 1994 draft. The first two seasons of his professional career were nothing near stellar-in 1994, he hit only .241 in 32 games, and in 1995, he hit .182 in 107 games.
1996 saw a slight improvement, at least while in Class-A ball. He hit .257 in 67 games there, but in Class-A advanced ball that year, he hit only .241.
Great at drawing walks, he walked 106 times but struck out only 85 times in 1997, but he still only hit .252. In 1998, he had a career year in the minors, batting .283 with 105 walks and only 72 strikeouts. That prompted his promotion, and on September 14, 1998 at the age of 22, he made his big league debut. He went 0-for-1 at the plate. The rest of his season was not impressive, either-overall, he collected only two hits in 23 at-bats, for a .087 batting average. He made the best out of his two hits, though-they were both triples. His first one came off of Pedro Martinez on September 19, and his second came off of Scott Service on September 25.
He spent his entire 1999 season with the White Sox, backing up Brook Fordyce. In 73 games that season, he hit .227 with four home runs and 16 RBI.
He hit .225 in 2000, this time as the White Sox main starting catcher. In 75 games, he hit three home runs with 23 RBI.
2001 was a career year for Johnson. Even though he spent 55 games in the minors, his Major League season would be the best of his career. He hit .249 with 10 sacrifice hits-good for fourth most in the league.
He hit only .209 in 2002, and that may have prompted his trade. On December 3, 2002, he was traded with Keith Foulke, Joe Valentine, and cash to the Oakland Athletics for Billy Koch and two players to be named later (who would end up being Neal Cotts and minor leaguer Daylon Holt).
He spent most of his season in the minors in 2003, hitting only .228. In the thirteen games that he played in the Majors, his batting average was a terrible .111.
After the 2003 season, he was granted free agency and signed by the Milwaukee Brewers. Like the season before, he spent most of his time in the minors that year, actually breaking the .250 mark and hitting .259. His time in the Majors was again unimpressive-in eleven at-bats, he collected only one hit, for a .097 batting average.
After 2004, he was granted free-agency but was resigned by the Brewers, who then traded him to the Chicago Cubs for Travis Ezi. He spent 2005 entirely in the minors, hitting .266 in 60 games. After the 2005 season, he was granted free agency and picked up by the Brewers again. He spent all of 2006 in the minors, hitting only .203 there.
One source describes him as this: "He has decent gap power, resulting in his share of doubles, as well as a good eye at the plate. Defensively, he calls a good game and gets the ball quickly down to second base."
Although he has never quite lived up to the "gap power", he has shown a fairly good eye at the plate, with 123 walks and 195 strikeouts so far in his career. His defense is also reliable-his career fielding percentage is .993.
That same source goes on to say this about him: "He has very little home-run power and is a fairly light hitter on the whole -- even worse against southpaws."
He has average just over two home runs a season in the Majors, and his statistics-.217 batting average with 16 home runs and 81 RBI so far in his career-are rather unsavory.
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The teammate Johnson has spent the most professional seasons with is eight-he has spent that much time with _Carlos Lee. Statistically, he compares most to Larry Cox.
He has worn multiple numbers so far in his career: 57 in 1998, 10 in 1999 and 2000, 8 in 2001, 2002 and 2004, and 7 in 2003.
At last check he lived in Warner Robins, Georgia.
In December 2008, he signed a minor league contract with the St Louis Cardinals and was invited to their 2008 spring training.
Mark Johnson is an English first class cricketer. He was born on 23 April 1958 in Gleadless, Sheffield, England and played 4 first class matches for Yorkshire CCC in 1981. A right arm off break and medium pace bowler and right handed batsman, he took 7 wickets at 43 with a best of 4-48 against Warwickshire CCC. He scored only 2 first class runs at an average of 1. He played 14 one day games, taking 12 wickets at 37.91 with a best of 4-18 against Scotland. He played for Derbyshire CCC Second XI in 1980 before appearing for Yorkshire Second XI in 1981.
Mark Patrick Johnson (October 17, 1967 in Worcester, Massachusetts), is a former professional baseball player who played first base in the Major Leagues from 1995-2002. He would play for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Anaheim Angels, and New York Mets.
Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Producers Branch) [2001-2004 & 2006-].
