Mark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University.

Turner 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, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work with Gilles Fauconnier founded the theory of Conceptual Blending and in 1996 he was awarded the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises by L’Académie française. His books include: The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity (2006), Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think About Politics, Economics, Law, and Society (2003), The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities (2002, with Gilles Fauconnier), and Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (1991).

Professor Turner delivered the following address at the 2006 ASC conference.

* Download a pdf of the slides from Turner’s presentation