American Philosophical Association – Pacific Division
April 8-12, 2009
Westin
Vancouver, BC

Panel: Ethics and Epistemology in Indian Buddhism

Chair: Ethan Mills, University of New Mexico

Commentator: Richard Hayes, University of New Mexico

Christian Coseru, College of Charleston

Naturalizing Buddhist Epistemology

Stephen Harris, University of New Mexico

Should Anātman Entail Altruism?

 

Ethan Mills, University of New Mexico
Nāgārjuna, Jayarāśi and the
Distinctive Character of Indian Skepticism

Panel: Memory, Desire and Karma in Classical Indian

and Contemporary Antalytic Philosophy

Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Commentator: Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Chris Framarin, University of Calgary

Two Kinds of Selfishness

Mark Siderits, Seoul National University

Bearerless Responsibility: a Buddhist view of Karma

Matt Mackenzie, Colorado State University

Perception, Action, and Conditioning: A Buddhist Phenomenology of Karma

Lara Marie Mitias (The American University in Cairo)
Impressions of Smoke and Memories of Fire:

On the ‘Logic’ of Self-Conscious Willed Remembrance

 

Panel: Morality and Society in Early Chinese Philosophy

Chair: Daniel Coyle, Birmingham-Southern College &

Department of Philosophy Our Lady of the Lake University

Alexus McLeod, University of Connecticut

Rejection of the Community and Non-Persons in
Analects Book 18

Misung Jang, University at Buffalo

Confucian and Aristotelian theories of Practical Virtue
as the Mean

Daniel Coyle, Birmingham-Southern College &
Department of Philosophy Our Lady of the Lake University

Rethinking Zonghengjia: Undercurrents in Chinese Philosophy