(American cognitive linguist, 1941–). Professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. Lakoff is best known for his theory of the centrality of metaphor to human thinking, political behavior and society, and for his elucidation of the concept of "embodied mind," particularly in relation to mathematics. Author of Philosophy In The Flesh: the Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (with Mark Johnson), Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (with Rafael Núñez), and Whose Freedom?: the battle over America's most important idea.
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