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American Philosophical Association - Eastern Division
One Hundred Sixth Annual Meeting Program

December 27-30, 2010 
New York Marriott Marquis
New York


Group Programs

Tuesday Morning, December 28, 2010
Group Session II 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.



Topic: Intersections of Ethics and Epistemology in Classical Indian Thought
Chair: Ethan Mills (University of New Mexico)

Speakers:
Stephen Harris (University of New Mexico)
"Santideva as Virtue Ethicist"

Amy Donahue (University of Hawai'i-Manoa)
Dinnaga's Anyapohavada and the Problem of Epistemological Violence"

Ethan Mills (University of New Mexico)
"Jarayarsi's Skepticism: How to Stop Worrying and Love a Life without Philosophy"

Laura Guererro (University of New Mexico)
"On Why One Should be a Buddhist"


Wednesday Morning, December 29th, 2010
Group Session VIII -- 11:15 A.M.-1:15 P.M.


Topic: Philosophical Conceptions of Mysticism in Asian and Comparative Thought
Chair: Alan Preti (Rosemont College)

Speakers: Kenneth Faber (Vanderbilt University)
"The Mahavakya Tat Tvam Asi (That Art Thou)"

Alan Preti (Rosemont College)
"Brahmanubhava and Mystical Experience"

Aaron Fehir (Purdue University)
"Kierkegaardian Faith and Religiousness B in Pure-Land Buddhism"



American Philosophical Association - Central Division
February 18-21, 2009 
Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Chicago, IL


Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy Session


Topic: Reflections on Reality Theory
Chair: Bina Gupta, University of Missouri at Columbia

Speakers: Donna M. Giancola, Suffolk University
Parmenides and the Buddha: Towards the Light

Bina Gupta, University of Missouri at Columbia
On the Transformative Potentials of the Dark Female Animal
in the Daodejing

Kenneth Faber, Vanderbilt University
Seng-Chao on the Immutability of Reality


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



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