Mark Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emeritus, in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. His research has focused on the philosophical implications of the role of human embodiment in meaning, conceptualization, reasoning, values, and knowing, especially from the perspective of embodied cognitive science and pragmatist philosophy. His recent work develops a body-based account of mind, knowing, and values.

Johnson is author or co-author of twelve books, including Metaphors We Live By, with George Lakoff (1980); The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason (1987); Philosophy in the Flesh, with George Lakoff (1999); Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics (1993), The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (2007), Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science (2014), Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing, with Don Tucker (2021); and Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living, with Jay Schulken.