乔治·莱考夫(George Lakoff)，生成语义学、认知语言学的主要创始人。早年在麻省理工学院主修数学与文学。1966年获印第安纳大学语言学博士学位。1971—1972年任职于斯坦福大学行为科学研究中心；1972年起任职于加利福尼亚大学伯克利校区语言学系。代表性著作有《我们赖以生存的隐喻》(与马克·约翰逊合著)、《女人、火与危险事物：范畴显露的心智》、《肉身哲学：亲身心智及其向西方思想的挑战》(与马克·约翰逊合著)等。 马克·约翰逊 (Mark Johnson)，美国哲学家、认知科学家。早年在堪萨斯大学主修哲学与文学。1977年获芝加哥大学哲学博士学位。其后任职于南伊利诺大学哲学系；1994年起任俄勒冈大学人文暨科学讲座教授。1979年结识莱考夫，并开始长期合作。著有《隐喻的哲学透视》《心智中的身体：意义、想象和理性的身体基础》《道德想象：伦理学...(展开全部)

Two leading thinkers offer a blueprint for a new philosophy. "Their ambition is massive, their argument important.…The authors engage in a sort of metaphorical genome project, attempting to delineate the genetic code of human thought." -The New York Times Book Review "This book will be an instant academic best-seller." -Mark Turner, University of Maryland This is philosoph...(展开全部)

Two leading thinkers offer a blueprint for a new philosophy. "Their ambition is massive, their argument important.…The authors engage in a sort of metaphorical genome project, attempting to delineate the genetic code of human thought." -The New York Times Book Review "This book will be an instant academic best-seller." -Mark Turner, University of Maryland This is philosoph...(展开全部)

This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience. Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life—how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love—all in the archi...(展开全部)

After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and places care as central to current debates on standardization, accountability, privatization, and the continuous struggle between traditional and progressive methods of education. R...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition to familiar models of human cognition, Surfing Uncertainty explores exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence that reveal minds like ours to be prediction machines―devices that have evolved to an...(展开全部)

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela) 瓦雷拉1946年生于智利，2001年5月2819病逝于巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物学家、认知科学家、哲学家和佛教静心修行者。他曾任巴黎法国国家科学研究中心的研究主任、巴黎综合理工大学的认知科学和认识论教授。瓦雷拉一生的主要著作包括Principles of Biological Autonomy(1979)、Autopoiesis and Cognition：The Realization of the Living(1980)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与汤普森和罗施合著)等。瓦雷拉是认知科学中生成认知研究纲领的主要倡导者...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)