George Lakoff

Biography

George Lakoff, PhD, is a Research Mentor at ICSI, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, and Co-Founder and President of FrameLab Communications. 

One of the founders of the field of Cognitive Science, Dr. Lakoff is known for his work on the nature of human conceptual systems; the development of cognitive social science; and the application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, psychology, philosophy, and mathematics. His books include Metaphors We Live By (with Mark Johnson); Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things; More Than Cool Reason (with Mark Turner); Philosophy in the Flesh (with Mark Johnson); Where Mathematics Comes From (with Rafael Núñez); The Political Mind; Moral Politics; Don’t Think of an Elephant!; Whose Freedom?; Thinking Points (with the Rockridge Institute staff); and The Little Blue Book with (Elisabeth Wehling). He a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society. 

Before coming to UC Berkeley in 1972, Dr. Lakoff taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan. He received his SB from MIT and PhD from Indiana University.

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