Dear FEAST colleagues,
We'd love to have more submissions from
feminist philosophers than we have been getting. Please consider
submitting something and please circulate widely.
Thanks!
Robin Dillon
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Call for Abstracts
Metaphors in Use
Third Annual Lehigh University Conference in
Philosophy, October
8 & 9, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Elizabeth Camp, Rutgers; Bryan Van Norden, Vassar;
Lynne Tirrell, U
Mass, Boston
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2015
Metaphors do heavy lifting in philosophical
thinking. Many of us take
it for granted that you can’t
get something from nothing, time flows, good building projects
require good
foundations, music has movement, rafts can’t be built at sea,
minds are like
computers and cognition has architecture, etc.
Cashing out metaphors can have interesting consequences for
the
positions they undergird, and
important
questions arise regarding how we are to understand arguments from
metaphor.
We invite submissions that address issues
relating to the
roles metaphors play in philosophical argumentation, especially
aspects of specific
arguments from metaphor,
evaluating their success, consequences, and power. We also seek submissions that
address broader
issues of the nature of
metaphor and
their place in philosophical work.
Electronic Submissions
of detailed
abstracts (750-1000 words) should be in Word or pdf format.
Reading time for
presented papers is 30 minutes.
Abstracts should be sent
to
<[log in to unmask]> with “LU conference submission” as
subject. Please
include in body of e-mail your name, paper title, institutional
affiliation,
and contact information
Suggested topics include but aren’t exhausted
by:
§ What does a particular argument from
metaphor commit
us to? Is the commitment one we ought to accept?
§ What happens when we unpack arguments that
involve
metaphor?
§ What is the role of metaphor in Philosopher
X’s
theory?
§ Does treating the idea that music has
movement or
that time flows as a metaphor affect how we theorize about musical
expressiveness or time?
§ How do arguments from metaphor affect views
on
fundamentality?
§ What is metaphorical metaphysics? Can we do it?
§ Could the foundations of philosophy be
entirely
constructed without metaphor?
§ Should we take metaphors literally?
§ How can we respond to arguments from
metaphor?
§ Is philosophy unique in its use of metaphor?
-- Robin S. Dillon William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy Chair, Department of Philosophy Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA############################
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