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2007 - 2008 SACP Panels

American Philosophical Association - Eastern Division

ONE HUNDRED FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
DECEMBER 27-30, 2007
BALTIMORE MARRIOTT WATERFRONT AND OTHER HOTELS

GROUP PROGRAM

SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 2007
GROUP SESSION XI - 9:00-11:00 A.M.

GXI-5. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m., Dover C (Third Floor)
Topic: Ontological Issues in Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Chair: May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)

Speakers: Jeffrey Richey (Berea College)
"Materiality and Mind in Epicurean and Taoist Thought"

May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
"Being qua Being and Unity in Aristotle, Liezi, and Zhuxi"

Linda Patrik (Union College)
"Loosening the Coarse Body, Speaking Out the Subtle Body"

Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii-Manoa)
"Nature and Experience in the Yijing"
(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)


SUNDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 30, 2007
GROUP SESSION XII - 1:30-4:30 P.M.

GXII-2. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
1:30-4:30 p.m., Dover C (Third Floor)
Topic: Existential and Epistemological Issues in Asian and
Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Sumner Twiss (Florida State University)

Speakers: Kimiyo Murata-Soraci (Belmont University)
"Heidegger, Dogen and Ippen on Logos"

James Behuniak (Colby College)
"Thinking Parts and Wholes: Plato and Chinese Buddhism"

Sumner Twiss (Florida State University)
"P.C. Chang, John Dewey, and the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights"

Charles Wesley DeMarco (Clark University)
"Righting the Names of Change"

American Philosophical Association - Central Division
April 17-20, 2008
Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Chicago, IL

Session One:

New Books in the Field: 

Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius (Cambridge, 2007)

by May Sim

Chair: Virginia Osborn, Belmont University

Commentators: Peimin Ni, Grand Valley State University

              Virginia Osborn, Belmont University

Alasdair Macintyre, University of Notre Dame

Respondent: May Sim, College of the Holy Cross

Session Two: 

Panel Title: Reason and Validity in Indian

and Buddhist Epistemologies

Chair:  J. N. Mohanty, Temple University

Bina Gupta, University of Missouri

 “The Place of Reason in Advaita Vedanta”

Matthew T. Kapstein, University of Chicago Divinity School

“A Fly on the Monastery Wall:

"Debates on the Cognitive Object in

Some Newly Discovered Tibetan Pramana Texts”

Sara McClintock, Emory University

“Buddhist Epistemology and the Bugaboo of True Belief”

Christopher G. Framarin, University of Calgary

“Cittavrttinirodha: The Restraint and Cessation of

Mental Events in the Yogasutra”

Discussant: J. N. Mohanty

Session Three:

Panel Title: Topics in Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Chair:  Marthe Chandler, DePauw University

Daniel Stephens, University of Hong Kong

 “On the Value of Comparative Philosophy

in a Rortian Reading of Rorty”

Bongrae Seok, Alvernia College

“Confucian Error:

Emotion in Confucian Moral Philosophy and

Contemporary Moral Psychology”

Marthe Chandler, DePauw University

“How Should I Feel about a Foreign Religion?

Buddhist Art in the Northern Wei”

Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

“Perplexing Words: Language and

the Unsayable in Heidegger and Chan Buddhism”

American Philosophical Association - Pacific Division
March 18-23, 2008
Hilton
Pasadena, CA

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Association of Asian Studies - Annual Conference
April 3-6, 2008
Hyatt Regency
Atlanta, GA

Panel: Philosophical Issues in Chinese & Indian Philosophies

Chair:

Bina Gupta, University of Missouri-Columbia

Presenters:

Lisa Rosenlee, University of Hawaii-West Oahu

Rethinking Confucian Ethics and Maternal Thinking

Mike Jostedt, Southern Illinois University- Carbondale

Heidegger and Laozi: Thinking Through Language

Catherine Hudak, Boston University

The Virtue of Humble Authority in Master Zhuxi

Bina Gupta, University of Missouri-Columbia

Freedom in Indian Philosophy

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SACP Program Chair Contact Information:

For the APA-Eastern

Contact Doug Berger at dberger@siu.edu

For the APA-Central
Contact Ronnie Littlejohn at littlejohnr@mail.belmont.edu

For the APA-Pacific

Contact Jim Behuniak at jim.behuniak@colby.edu

For the AAS
Contact Robin Wang at rwang@lmu.edu

For the AAR
          Contact Gereon Kopf at kopfg@luther.edu