Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. is an independent cognitive scientist and former Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. His research interests focus on embodied cognition, pragmatics, and figurative language. He is the author of many books, including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding (1994), Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (1999), Embodiment and Cognitive Science (2006), Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphor in Human Life (2017), and Interpreting Figurative Meaning (2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is also editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (2008).