Reddit reviews Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

Steven Pinker has a somewhat uncharitable description of Lakoff's ideas on metaphor in his book The Stuff of Thought, and he and Lakoff also engaged in a bit of nasty public back-and-forth starting with Pinker's review of Lakoff's Whose Freedom? Personally, I come down hard on the embodied/enactivist side of the debate (Lakoff's side) and consider much of Pinker's pop-sci writing to be incredibly intellectually dishonest, but if you want to balance out Lakoff you should certainly check out the computational theory of mind, to which much of Lakoff's work has been framed as a rebuttal. Lakoff's former mentor Noam Chomsky is a founding father of this school of thought (see here) but perhaps its most exemplary proponent is Jerry Fodor (see here).