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,此外。在意识科学中提出了神经现象学的研究纲领。

汤普森(E．Thompson)

汤普森现就职于加拿大多伦多大学哲学系。是一名在认知科学、现象学和心智科学领域从事研究的哲学家。他目前International Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences的主任之一。是Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences杂志的编委。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)(与瓦雷拉和罗施合著)。

罗施(E．Rosch)

罗施是伯克利加利福尼亚大学的心理学教授。在范畴化研究方面,她提出了著名的原型理论；在宗教心理学方面,她最近的研究旨在表明佛教和西方宗教中的沉思传统对当代心理学的意义。她在认知心理学和宗教心理学领域发表过一系列论著,其主要著作包括The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与瓦雷拉和汤酱森合著)、Cognition and Categorization(1978)(与劳埃德合编)。