“With this book, Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier make a new and compelling argument for the importance of imagination in our conceptual lives. Written in lucid and lively prose, this book encourages us to re-think the thoughts that occupy our everyday world, and to connect them to the most profound accomplishments of the human mind.”
- Lawrence Zbikowski, author of Conceptualizing Music

“Over the last two decades, cognitive linguists have mapped out the basic elements of thought -- image-schemas, frames, conceptual metaphors and metonymies, prototypes, mental spaces. Now Fauconnier and Turner have filled in the last piece of the puzzle: conceptual blending, the mental mechanism that binds together and integrates these elements into complex ideas. The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination.”
- George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From

“This wonderful and stylish book, which deals with the deeper layers of the human imagination, is one of those rare works in cognitive science that fully acknowledge the subtlety and complexity of creative thinking. It is illustrated richly with examples drawn from art, literature, mathematics, and daily life. This is exactly the approach—rigorous synthesis of science and the humanities —that will be needed, if we are to understand the special powers of the human mind.”
- Merlin Donald, author of A Mind So Rare and Origins of the Modern Mind.

"If you seek challenging phenomena to explain or wish to be further impressed with the human mind, conceptual blends are for you. These remarkable cognitive gymnastics are not only astonishingly complex and sophisticated, they are ubiquitous, arising across the spectrum of human accomplishment. Fauconnier and Turner's analyses of conceptual blends will provoke and broaden your thinking."
- Lawrence W. Barsalou, Past Chair, Cognitive Science Society

"This book gives us deep insights into clinical processes known from Freud to the present but never really explained. In the age of cognitive science, this book must be read by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in developing their field."
- Marco Casonato, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.

“Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner elaborate a comprehensive theory of conceptual blending that goes to the heart of how we think about what we think. Everyone who is interested in the nature and artifacts of human consciousness should read this pioneering and profoundly revolutionary book.”
- Donald C. Freeman, University of Southern California