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23. COGNITIVE APPROACHES, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION: LANGUAGE, EMOTIONS, PERCEPTION AND RITUAL

Panel Convenors

Gregory Membrez (Concordia University, Saint Paul, USA) [memb0001@umn.edu]

Maria Chriti (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Modern Greek) [mchriti@gmail.com]

 

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Gregory Membrez is currently an adjunct professor of Greek and Latin at Concordia University, Saint Paul. He is interested in the intersection of cognitive science and hermeneutics and is working on a research project centered on how cognitive science can be used in the interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. He has recently published, “Metaphor by any Other Name: a Cognitive Linguistic Reassessment of Aristotle’s Theory of Metaphor”, included in Toward a Classical Cognitive Linguistics, edited by Egle Mocciaro and William Michael Short, De Gruyter, 2019.​

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Maria Chriti has been a Post-doctorate fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (University of Harvard). Her research project is titled “Aristotle as a name-giver: The cognitive aspect of his Theory and Practice” (https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1304?menuId=181). She has been a researcher at the Centre for the Greek Language (Greek Ministry of Education) for 20 years, a member of the teaching staff at the Open University of Cyprus for two years and she currently is the Vice-President of the International Association ETYGRAM (http://appsweb-cepam.unice.fr/etygram/node/2). Her interests include philosophy of language, cognitive classics, etymology, logic.