George Lakoff on The Political Mind

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: The Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 06.20.08
Speakers:: Joe Epstein,; George P. Lakoff
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Summary: UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff discusses concepts from his new book, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain.

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Joe Epstein

Joe Epstein is the former President of The Commonwealth Club's Board of Governors. He is a veteran of over forty years in the steel business. In 1970, he founded Sierra Pacific Steel, a full line steel service center, located in Hayward, California. The Company was sold in 1998. He joined with David Garner to start Sierra Steel Trading, LLC in 2002.

Epstein is the President of Sierra Steel Trading and oversees its on going activities.

George P. Lakoff

George P. Lakoff is a professor of linguistics (in particular, cognitive linguistics) at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972.

Although some of his research involves questions traditionally pursued by linguists, such as the conditions under which a certain linguistic construction is grammatically viable, he is most famous for his ideas about the centrality of metaphor to human thinking, political behavior and society.

He is particularly famous for his concept of the "embodied mind" which he has written about in relation to mathematics. In recent years he has applied his work to the realm of politics, and founded a progressive think tank, the Rockridge Institute.

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01.: Moderator Introduction

02 min 15 sec

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02.: The 18th Century Brain

03 min 47 sec

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03.: Reason Linked to Emotion

04 min 39 sec

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04.: Framing and Metaphor

04 min 52 sec

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05.: Conservative and Progressive Reasoning

04 min 58 sec

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06.: Marketing of Conservative Ideas

02 min 30 sec

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07.: Barack Obama and Empathy

03 min 58 sec

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08.: How Candidates Get Elected

04 min 49 sec

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09.: Q1: Outdated Critical Thinking

01 min 46 sec

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10.: Q2: How Obama Fights Conservative Rumors

02 min 32 sec

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11.: Q3: Tenor of the Presidential Campaign

06 min 12 sec

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12.: Q4: Patriotism and Nationalism

03 min 46 sec

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13.: Q5: Why Kerry Got Swiftboated

01 min 41 sec

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14.: Q6: Framing of Race in the Campaign

01 min 39 sec

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15.: Q7: Message to the Electorate

00 min 55 sec

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16.: Q8: Stem Cell Therapy

03 min 44 sec

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17.: Q9: Same-Sex Marriage

02 min 20 sec

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18.: Q10: Wire-Tapping and FISA

06 min 44 sec

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19.: Q11: Karl Rove

02 min 06 sec

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George Lakoff Exposes Conservative Marketing Strategies

02 min 51 sec

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George Lakoff Analyzes the Linguistics of Gay Marriage

02 min 37 sec

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George Lakoff on Barack Obama's Empathy Campaign

02 min 50 sec

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

linguistics: Study of the nature and structure of language. It traditionally encompasses semantics, syntax, and phonology. Synchronic linguistic studies aim to describe a language as it exists at a given time; diachronic studies trace a language's historical development. Greek philosophers in the 5th century BC who debated the origins of human language were the first in the West to be concerned with linguistic theory. The first complete Greek grammar, written by Dionysus Thrax in the 1st century BC, was a model for Roman grammarians, whose work led to the medieval and Renaissance vernacular grammars.; linguistics on britannica.com