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About the authors
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George
Lakoff
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Rafael
E. Núñez
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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.
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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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