The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy has awarded Mark Johnson the Herbert W. Schneider Award. The Schneider Award is the Society’s highest honor and each year is awarded to an individual who, during their entire career, has made distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of American philosophy. Past recipients include Richard Bernstein, Joseph Margolis, John Smith, Justus Buchler, Charlene Haddock Siegfried and John J. McDermott.

Johnson’s work includes The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason (Chicago, 1987), Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics (1993), and The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (2007) and most recently Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science (2014). He is co-author, with George Lakoff, of Metaphors We Live By (Chicago, 2003) and Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought (Basic, 1999). He is also author of numerous articles and book chapters on a broad range of topics including philosophy of language, metaphor theory, aesthetics, recent moral theory, ethical naturalism, philosophy and cognitive science, embodied cognition, philosophical psychology, and American pragmatist philosophy. He taught in the Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois from 1977 until 1994. Johnson moved to the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon in 1994, where he is Professor of Philosophy and Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences.