Mark Turner

Mark Turner is an Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network and co-director of the Red Hen Lab. He is winner of the Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, winner of the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises from the French Academy, and Founding President of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts.

He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University, and the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 

He is a fellow of the Institute for the Science of Origins, an external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience, a distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, and an Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftsliches Zentrum. Many of his papers are available on his website or his author page on the Cognitive Science Network. 

His most recent book publications are _The Origin of Ideas_ (2014, Oxford), _Ten Lectures on Mind and Language_ (2011. Eminent Linguists Lecture Series. Beijing: FLTR Press) and two edited volumes, _The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity_, from Oxford University Press, and _Meaning, Form, & Body_, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin, published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information. 

His other books and articles include _Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics, Economics, Law, and Society_ (Oxford), _The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language_ (Oxford), _Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science_ (Princeton), and _Death is the Mother of Beauty_ (Chicago).