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 meditative psychology and situate it in relation to other traditions such as phenomenology and psychoanalysis.Francisco Varela is Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Evan Thompson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Eleanor Rosch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela)

瓦雷拉1946年生於智利，2001年5月2819病逝於巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物學傢、認知科學傢、哲學傢和佛教靜心修行者。他曾任巴黎法國國傢科學研究中心的研究主任、巴黎綜閤理工大學的認知科學和認識論教授。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)(與馬特拉納閤著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(與馬特拉納閤著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(與湯普森和羅施閤著)等。瓦雷拉是認知科學中生成認知研究綱領的主要倡導者，此外。在意識科學中提齣瞭神經現象學的研究綱領。

湯普森(E．Thompson)

湯普森現就職於加拿大多倫多大學哲學係。是一名在認知科學、現象學和心智科學領域從事研究的哲學傢。他目前International Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences的主任之一。是Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences雜誌的編委。其主要著作包括Mind in Life：Biology,Phenomenology,and the Sciences of Mind{2007)、Colour Wsion：A Study in CognitiveScience andthePhilosophyofPerception (1995)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(與瓦雷拉和羅施閤著)。

羅施(E．Rosch)

羅施是伯剋利加利福尼亞大學的心理學教授。在範疇化研究方麵，她提齣瞭著名的原型理論；在宗教心理學方麵，她最近的研究旨在錶明佛教和西方宗教中的沉思傳統對當代心理學的意義。她在認知心理學和宗教心理學領域發錶過一係列論著，其主要著作包括The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(與瓦雷拉和湯醬森閤著)、Cognition and Categorization(1978)(與勞埃德閤編)。