George Lakoff

From Ballotpedia

George Lakoff is the official sponsor of the California End the Two-Thirds Requirement Amendment (2010). He is also a professor of linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972.

As a linguist and thinker, Lakoff has written a number of influential books and journal articles in which he argues for the centrality of metaphor as a way to understand the world, and maintains that the fact that the mind is embodied has to ground insights into how the mind functions including in abstract areas such as mathematics.

Political activism such as that exhibited by filing the language for a California ballot proposition is not new to Lakoff. He founded the Rockridge Institute in 2003 to advocate for his favored progressive views. The strategy of the Rockridge Institute was primarily to discover ways to re-frame and articulate progressive views in ways that Lakoff believed would make these views more palatable and acceptable to moderate voters. The Rockridge Institute closed up shop in early 2008.

Lakoff expresses many of his political views through a column at the Huffington Post.

External links

• UC-Berkeley profile of Lakoff
• Collection of Lakoff's writings at the Huffington Post

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