Faculty News

Gordon Bearn

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  • “Austin: Sense and Sensuality,” J.L. Austin Centenary Conference, Lancaster University, England, April 2011.
  • “The Education of Grownups,” panel discussion by some of the contributors to Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Spokane, Washington, March 2011.
  • “Feeling Words: An Attitude to Linguistic Life,” invited lecture, “A New Form of Seeing: Wittgenstein in the 21st Century,” Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, December 2010.
  • “Violescent Sensuality: Beyond Deleuze’s Logic of Sensation,” invited lecture in the Lehigh Humanities Center series on Excess, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November 2010.
  • “Resonating Rhythms: Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon, and Sensual Enjoyment,” a paper accepted but not delivered because of volcanic activity of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, RESONANCE(S): A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Arts and Politics, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2010.
  • Live Presentation of “The Mechanism of Meaning: A Pedagogical Sketchbook,” invited lecture, RAUCUS: Celebrating the Launching of an Art-Science of Viability, Barnard College, New York City, April 2010.
  • “The Mechanism of Meaning: A Pedagogical Sketchbook,” invited paper, the Third International Conference on Arakawa and Gins, March 2010.
  • “Punctuation in Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein,” invited keynote address, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies, 22nd Annual Conference, University of Pennsyl-vania, Slippery Rock, April 2009.
  • “Sensual Consciousness in James and Bergson,” 3rd Philosophy Conference, ATINER, Athens, Greece, June 2008.
  • “Not Pretty. Beautiful,” Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, April 2008.
  • “The Enormous Danger,” Philosophy Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, April 2008.
  • “A Deleuze Cookbook,” Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2008.
  • “Learning Comma Living,” the Second International Arakawa + Gins Architecture + Philosophy Conference, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2008.


Mark Bickhard

RECENT RECOGNITIONS

Special issue of Axiomathes on the Interactivist Model:

  • Bickhard, M. H. (2011). “Does Process Matter? An Introduction to the Special Issue on Interactivism,” Axiomathes, 21: 1–2. DOI 10.1007/s10516-010-9124-x
  • Bickhard, M. H. (2011). “Some Consequences (and Enablings) of Process Metaphysics,” Axiomathes, 21: 3–32. DOI 10.1007/s10516-010-9130-z
  • Campbell, R. J. and Bickhard, M. H. (2011). “Physicalism, Emergence and Downward Causation,” Axiomathes, 21: 33–56. DOI: 10.1007/s10516-010-9128-6

Special issue of Synthese on the Interactivist Model:

  • Bickhard, M. H. (2009). “Interactivism: Introduction to the Special Issue,” Synthese 166 (no. 3): 449–451. DOI 10.1007/s11229-008-9371-1
  • Bickhard, M. H. (2009). “The Interactivist Model,” Synthese 166 (no. 3): 547–591. DOI 10.1007/s11229-008-9375-x

Keynote address, “Society and Creative Rationality,” Celebration of 40th Anniversary, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, December 2008.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  • “Language as an Interaction System,” Penn Linguistics Colloquium 34, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 2010
  • “The Metaphysics of Personhood,” American Psychological Association Division 24 Winter Meetings, Miami, February 2010
  • “Toward an Ontological Psychology,” American Psychological Association Division 24 Winter Meetings, Miami, February 2010
  • With Carpendale, J., Martin, J., Racine, T., and Sugarman, J. Panel Discussion: “Early Social Development,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Vancouver, June 2009.
  • With Müller, U. Panel Discussion: “Executive Function,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Vancouver, June 2009.
  • “The Induction and Control of Central Nervous System Attractor Landscapes: The Emergence of Representational Normativity in the Brain.,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Vancouver, June 2009.
  • “Frontiers of Interactivism,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Vancouver, June 2009.
  • “Parmenides to Persons,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Vancouver, June 2009.
  • “Some Issues in Metaethics,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Vancouver, June 2009.
  • With Campbell, R., and Christopher, J. C. “Developmental Psychology of the Whole Person: Transcending False Alternatives,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Vancouver, June 2009.
  • “Is Cognition Necessarily Embodied?” Jean Piaget Society, Park City, Utah, June 2009.
  • “Some Principles of Dynamics and Development,” Jean Piaget Society, Park City, Utah, June 2009.
  • “Cognition and Evolutionary Epistemology,” University of Guanajuato, Mexico, December 2008.
  • “Cortical Dynamics and Cognitive Dynamics,” Laboratoire Adaptation Perceptivo-Motice et Apprentissagae, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, November 2008.
  • “The Emergence of Normativity,” Workshop on Emergence: Nature’s Mode of Creativity – The Human Dimension, IRAS (Institute on Religion in an Age of Science), Star Island, New Hampshire, July 2008.
  • “The Microgenetic Dynamics of Cortical Attractor Landscapes,” Workshop on Dynamics in and of Attractor Landscapes, Parmenides Foundation, Isola d’Elba, Italy, May 2008.
  • “From Agency to Social Agency,” Franklin and Marshall, Conference on Human Action and the Natural World, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 2008.
  • “Darwinian Explanations,” Darwin’s Birthday Celebration, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, February 2008.


Robin Dillon

RECENT RECOGNITIONS

  • President of the Society for Analytical Feminism.
  • Keynote address, “Respect for Persons, Identity, and Information Technology,” Ethics, Technology, and Identity Conference, Center for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, June 2008.
  • Keynote address, “Toward a Critical Character Theory,” Society for Analytic Feminism conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2008.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  • “Critical Character Theory,” Feminist Ethics and Social Theory conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, September 2009.
  • “Critical Character Theory, ” “Transformation and the Dynamic of Radical Change” conference, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 2008.
  • “Writing as a Woman,” American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Chicago, April 2008.
  • “Toward a Feminist Perspective on Vice,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meetings, Pasadena, March 2008.
  • “Ethical Theory: Respect,” Dietrich Bostiber Program “Ethics and Leadership” seminar, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, February 2008.


Steve Goldman

RECENT RECOGNITION

  • Keynote address, “Beyond Satisficing: Design, Trade-Offs and the Rationality of Engineering,” Annual Meeting of the Forum for Philosophy, Engineering and Technology, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, May 2010.


Gregory M. Reihman

PRESENTATIONS

  • “Writing Fellows Remix: The TRAC (Technology, Research, and Communication) Writing Fellows Program at Lehigh University,” Writing Across the Curriculum National Conference, Bloomington, May 2010.
  • “Small Group Discussions in a Lecture-style Class,” Patriot League Conference on Alternative Pedagogies, Bucknell University, October 2009.
  • “Writing Fellows Remix: The TRAC (Technology, Research and Communication) Writing Fellows Program at Lehigh University,” Patriot League Conference on Alternative Pedagogies, Bucknell University, October 2009.
  • “Tibet and Buddhism in Film and Myth: Preparing and Delivering a Team-taught Interdisciplinary Course,” Patriot League Conference on Alternative Pedagogies, Bucknell University, October 2009.
  • “Teaching Well with Innovative Technologies,” New Media Consortium, Monterey, June 2009.
  • “Teaching Large Lectures: Choosing the Right Approach,” Lilly Conference on College Teaching-East, University of Delaware, April 2008.

INVITED TALKS

  • “Re-Thinking Course Design,” Lehigh Lab Symposium on Teaching, Learning, Technology, Lehigh University, November 2009.
  • “TRAC Writing Fellows and Faculty Reflect on the 2008-09 Pilot Partnership,” Lehigh University Friends of the Libraries, September 2009.
  • “Philosophy in and around the World,” Octavian Session Participant at the Memorial Conference for Robert C. Solomon, Austin, February 2008.
  • “Innovations in Teaching and Learning at Lehigh,” Lehigh Lab Symposium on Teaching and Learning, November 2008.
  • “Lehigh Life on Second Life: What’s it all about?” Lehigh University Friends of the Library/Lehigh Lab, November 2008.


Roslyn Weiss

RECENT AWARDS

  • The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2010.
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award, 2009.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  • “Kol Tuvi”—The Transcendent God of Goodness,” Philosophical Investigations of the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, and Midrash Conference, Shalem Center, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2011.
  • “The Less-than-Fully-Just Philosophers of Plato’s Republic 7,” Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, June 2011.
  • Comment on Russell Jones, “ ‘Wisdom is Good Fortune’ is not an Identity Claim (Euthydemus 279c-280b),” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, December 2010.
  • “Unjust Philosophers in Republic 7,” Lecture, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Assumption College, November 2010.
  • “Philosophers by Nature,” Seminar, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Assumption College, November 2010.
  • “The Smart Philosophers of Republic 7,” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Boston, November 2010.
  • Comment on Alan Pichanick, “ ‘Philotimia’ and ‘Philosophia’ in Plato’s Charmides,” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Boston, November 2010.
  • “Are the Rulers of Rep. 7 Philosophic?” International Symposium Platonicum, Tokyo, August 2010.
  • “The Fifth Cardinal Virtue: Piety in Plato’s Republic,” University of Haifa, Israel, June 2010.
  • Comment on Geoffrey Pfeifer, “Augustine’s Confessions: Truth, Material Practice, and the Making of the Self,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, December 2009.
  • Comment on Joyce Mullan, “Piety and Politics: The Transformation of Religious Belief,” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, November 2009.
  • “The Fifth Cardinal Virtue: Piety in Plato’s Republic,” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, November 2009.
  • “The Philosophic Nature in Plato’s Republic,” Jerusalem Seminar in the History of Political Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July 2009.
  • “Creation as Parable in Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, December 2008.
  • Commentator on session, “Maimonides on Creation,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2008.
  • Participant in roundtable discussion of Marina McCoy, Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists, Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Boston, November 2008.
  • “Three Philosophical Natures in the Republic . . . and a Fourth,” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Boston, November 2008.
  • “Justice and Moderation in Republic 4,” Case Western Reserve University, April 2008.
  • “The Unjust Philosophers of Republic 7,” University of South Florida, March 2008.


Aladdin Yaqub

RECENT AWARDS

  • Faculty Research Grant, Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2010.
  • Paul Franz Junior Faculty Fellowship, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2010.
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award, 2009.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  • “Divine Freedom and the Problem of Evil in al-Ghazālī,” Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, June 2011.
  • “Al-Ghazālī on Divine Will,” Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University, October 2010.
  • “Al-Ghazālī’s Ethical Egoism and Divine Will,” Annual Summer Conference on Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions, Marquette University, Milwaukee, June 2010.
  • “Al-Ghazālī on the Oneness and Simplicity of the Necessary Existent,” The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2010.
  • “Divine Unity in al-Ghazālī’s Incoherence of the Philosophers,” Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, Forest Grove, October 2009.
  • “Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophers on the Divine Unity,” Annual Summer Conference on Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions, University of Denver, Denver, June 2009.
  • “Formal Epistemology: Some Philosophical Implications,” Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, March 2009.
  • “Duhem, Bayes, and Irrationality,” The Joint Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic and the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 2008.
  • “On the Metaphysics of Truth,” Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2008.