George Lakoff is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. He previously taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan. His academic career has been devoted to developing the field of cognitive lingusitics, the cognitive theory of metaphor, construction grammar, embodied conceptual systems, a neural theory of grammar, and the cognitive foundations of mathematics.

作者George Lakoff是美国加州大学伯克利分校的认知科学与语言学特聘教授，现任教于美国哈佛大学和密歇根大学，是认知语言学领域的代表人物。他的专业研究范围为：认知语言学、隐喻的认知理论、构式语法、内在概念系统、语法与神经系统的关联理论等。其作品《女人、火与危险事物》、《体验哲学》，以及与Mark Johnson合著的《我们赖以生存的隐喻》皆为认知语言学领域的经典著作。