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	Any Word Author Keyword Book • What’s New Links A new Gifford Lectures page for St. Andrews. [More…] Stay Informed Become a fan of the Gifford Lectures on Facebook. [More…] Upcoming Gifford Lectures The latest news on lectures for 2009–2010 and beyond. [More…] Recent Gifford Lectures An update on lectures given in 2008–2009. [More…] Eight Books Based on Gifford Lectures Eight new books derived from the Gifford lectures are available. [More…]		• Authors George Lakoff 1941 - Professor, University of California at Berkeley Lectures 2001: The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding BiographyLinguist George Lakoff was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, on 24 May 1941 to Herman and Ida Lakoff. After earning a Ph.D. in linguistics by Indiana University in 1966, Lakoff taught at Harvard University (1965�1969) and the University of Michigan (1969�1971), and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1971�1972). Since 1972, he has served as Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. More recently, Professor Lakoff helped found and is a Senior Fellow of the Rockridge Institute, a nonprofit research and educational institution dedicated to progressive politics and social reform. He is married to Kathleen Frumkin. Lakoff�s significant books include Metaphors We Live By (1980, with Mark Johnson), More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (1989, with Mark Turner), Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (1996; 2nd ed., 2002), Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought (1999, with Mark Johnson), Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (2000, with Rafael N��ez), and Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (2004). Brannon HancockUniversity of Glasgow