Category Archives: Lakoff

A Comment on the Lakoff/Pinker Debate: What About Ethos?

Posted on October 8, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

There’s been some discussion about the flareup between Lakoff and Pinker. I’m not even going to comment on the cognitive science issues: we have bonafide experts around these parts to do that. But I have had considerable experience debating conservatives, and I have personally found most of what Lakoff writes to be pretty useless in any practical, working sense. Why?
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Two Good Ideas From Lakoff

Posted on July 8, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

While I’m not the world’s biggest fan of George Lakoff, he has published two posts that are worth reading.
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