About Francisco J. Varela Francisco J. Varela (1946– 2001) was Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and Cofounder of the Mind and Life Institute. Books by Francisco J. Varela Principles of Biological Autonomy, a new annotated edition by (author) Francisco J. Varela foreword by Amy Cohen-Varela edited by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo & Evan Thompson The Embodied Mind, revised edition Cognitive Science and Human Experience by (author) Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn
