Rafael Núñez
Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
RAFAEL NÚÑEZ is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He investigates cognition from the perspective of the embodied mind. He is particularly interested in high-level cognitive phenomena such as conceptual systems, abstraction, and inference mechanisms, and the biological and cultural phenomena that make them possible.
He is the co-author of Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (with UC Berkeley linguist George Lakoff).
Núñez is the director of the Embodied Cognition Laboratory at UCSD, with lab space and members dedicated to investigating how cognition is grounded on the peculiarities, experiences, and limitations of the human body.
