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Produced by: UCTVFoerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
Jefferson Memorial Lectures
Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture
Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture
Barbara Weinstock Lectures on the Morals of Trade
Professor Lakoff is an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most famous for his ideas about the centrality of metaphor to human thinking, political behavior and society. Lakoff is also known for his concept of the "embodied mind,” which he has written about in relation to mathematics.