Lehigh University Third Annual Conference in Philosophy
October 8 – 9, 2015
“Metaphors in Use”
THURSDAY OCT 8
8:45 – 9:00 – Welcome
Metaphor and Analogy
Chair: Ricki Bliss, Lehigh
9:00 – 9:40
Jarrod Brown (Berea College)
‘Taking Analogy Seriously’
Hermeneutics and Beyond
Chair: Gordon Bearn, Lehigh
9:00 – 9:40
Alberto Martinengo (University of Turin)
‘From the Linguistic Turn to the
Pictorial Turn: The role of metaphors
in the hermeneutical debate’
9:45 – 10:25
Kathryn O’Shields (CUNY)
‘Analogy is the Key: The pragmatics
of metaphor’
9:45 – 10:25
Paolo Furia (University of Turin)
‘Homo Homini Lupus: an application
of P. Ricoeur’s theory of metaphor’
10:25 – 10:40 Coffee
10:45 – 12:00 Keynote Address
Lynne Tirrell (U Massachusetts, Boston)
‘Metaphors, Euphemisms, and Slurs: Using Tropes to Sculpt the Social Landscape’
12:10 – 1:00 Lunch in University Center
Metaphor in the Ancient World: Plato
Chair: Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh
1:15 – 1:55
Amon Allred (University of Toledo)
‘Saving Plato from the Platonists’
Personal Identity Politics
Chair: Mark Bickhard, Lehigh
1:15 – 1:55
Emma Husband (University of Edinburgh)
‘Exclusionary Metaphors and Alien
Dances’
2:00 – 2:40
Maia Shukhoshvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi
State University)
‘The Metaphors as a Dialectical Tool
in Plato’s ‘Sophist’ and ‘Statesman’’
2:00 – 2:40
Gabrielle Jackson (Stony Brook University)
‘Speaking Surface or Embodied Actor:
The metaphors of social construction’
2:40 – 2:55 – coffee
Metaphor, Metaphysics, and the Sciences
Chair: William Falla, Moravian
3:00 – 3:40
Andrew Winters (Slippery Rock University of
Pennsylvania)
‘Scientific Models and Metaphors’
Metaphor in the Cross-Cultural Context
Chair: Greg Reihman, Lehigh
3:00 – 3:40
Julianne Chung (The University of Louisville)
‘Skepticism and Metaphor’
3:45 – 4:25
Justin Donhauser (SUNY Buffalo)
‘The Role of Teleological Metaphor in
Science and Contemporary
Metaphysics’
3:45 – 4:25
Shuja Ahmad (University of Peshawar)
‘Love, Life and Time Metaphors: A
comparative analysis’
4:25 – 4:40 Coffee
Metaphor on the Continent: Lacan and
Sartre
Chair: Gordon Bearn, Lehigh
4:45 – 5:25
Matthew Meyer (University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire)
‘Straight to the Target: The meaning
of the bow in Lacan’
Metaphor Reconsidered
Chair: Steven Goldman, Lehigh
4:45 – 5:25
Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (University of
Washington)
‘Metaphor-Guided Research and the
Need for Robust Critique’
5:30 – 6:10
John Kaiser Ortiz (Millersville University)
‘Sartre’s Mistaken Metaphor of the
Waiter in Bad Faith’
5:30 – 6:10
Lori Kanitz (Oral Roberts University)
‘Science, Poetry and Metaphorical
Ways of Knowing’
6:15 RECEPTION
7:00 DINNER
University Center
FRIDAY OCT 9
Minds, Metaphors and Induction
Chair: Mehgan Masto, Lafayette
9:00 – 9:40
Stephanie Theodorou (Immaculata
University)
‘Metaphor and Plasticity in a
Hermeneutic Theory of Mind’
Dealing with Metaphors
Chair: Gregory Kerr, DeSales
9:00 – 9:40
Catherine Wearing (Wellesley College)
‘Are (Some) Metaphors
Indispensable?”
9:45 -10:25
Caleb Dewey and Garri Hovhannisyan (York
University)
‘Inductive Theories are Cognitive
Metaphors’
9:45 – 10:25
Megan Stotts (UC Riverside)
‘How to Paraphrase Metaphor’
10:25 – 10:40 Coffee
10:45 – 12:00 Keynote Address
Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University)
‘Analogical equations and conceptual expansion: Metaphors in scientific imagination’
12:10 – 1:05 Lunch in University Center
Who Owns What?
Chair: Andrew Winters,
Slippery Rock
1:15 – 1:55
M. Blake Wilson
(Binghamton University)
‘Ton Corps est á
Toi: The rhetoric of
selves and their
owners’
Metaphors in the Ancient
World: Plato and Aristotle
Chair: Julianne Chung,
Louisville
1:15 – 1:55
Daniel Bloom (West Texas
A&M University)
‘The Success of
Failed Metaphors in
Plato’s Dialogues’
Metaphor on The
Continent – Hegel and
Heidegger
Chair: Leon
Niemoczyski, Moravian
1:15 – 1:55
Dustin Peone (Emory
University)
‘There are no Black
Flowers: the Gallery
of Images in Hegel’s
“Science of Logic”
2:00 – 2:40
Erich Matthes (Wellesly
College)
‘Who Owns up to
the Past? Property
Metaphor and
Cultural Heritage’
2:00 – 2:40
Eric Schumacher (Cheyney
University)
‘Aristotle, Analogy
and the Articulation
of Substance’
2:00 – 2:40
Filippo Casati and Alice
Bitto (CUNY)
‘The Role of
Metaphor in
Heidegger’s
Metaphysics’
2:40 –2:55 Coffee
Metaphor in the Ancient
World – Pythagoras and
Heraclitus
Chair: Jarrod Brown,
Berea
3:00 – 3:40
J. Ralph Lindgren (Lehigh
University)
‘Extra-Linguistic
Metaphor’
3:45 – 4:25
Christopher Moore (Penn
State University)
‘Heraclitus’
Metaphor for
Knowing’
Metaphor and Language
Chair: Gabrielle Jackson,
Stony Brook
3:00 – 3:40
Carlos Santana (University
of Pennsylvania)
‘Linguistic Patterns
and Linguistic
Rules’
3:45 – 4:25
Richmond Kwesi
(University of Cape Town)
‘Metaphorical
Assertions:
Understanding the
use of metaphors on
the model of
inferential discursive
commitments’
Metaphors and
Experiences
Chair: Matt Gasda,
Lehigh
3:00 – 3:40
Charles Dalrymple-Fraser
(University of Toronto)
‘Minimizing
Casualties in
Argument as War’
3:45 – 4:25
Bongrae Seok (Alvernia
University)
‘Computer Menus
and Restaurant
Menus: Embodied
Spatial Metaphors’
4:30 – 6:00 Keynote Address
Bryan Van Norden (Vassar College)
“‘Like Loving a Lovely Sight’: Simile and Metaphor in Chinese Philosophy"
6:15 RECEPTION in Philosophy Cottage
7:00 DINNER: sampling Bethlehem restaurants