Where Mathematics Comes From:
How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being

George Lakoff & Rafael E. Núñez


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About the authors

George Lakoff
Rafael E. Núñez

 

Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-author, with Mark Johnson, of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh. He has also written Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, Moral Politics, and, with Mark Turner, More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. He was one of the founders of the generative-semantics movement in linguistics in the 1960s, a founder of the field of cognitive linguistics in the 1970s, and one of the developers of the neural theory of language in the 1980s and '90s.


Núñez has recently taken a professorship at the Dept. of Cognitive Science of the Univ. of California, San Diego. He has worked for more than a decade on the foundations of embodied cognition, with special research into the nature and origin of mathematical concepts. He has published in several languages in a variety of areas, and has taught in leading academic institutions in Europe, the United States, and South America. He is the co-editor, with Walter J. Freeman, of Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention, and Emotion.

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