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tbold">SACP SESSIONS AT THE CENTRAL DIVISION, 2012
The American Philosophical Association

Spring 2012 APA Central February 15-18, 2012, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy
PANEL ONE. Issues in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy
Friday, Feb. 17, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Chair

"The Zhuangzi and You 遊: Defining an Ideal Without Contradiction"
Alan Levinovitz, University of Chicago

Transformative Potential of Conceptual Schemes in Comparative Philosophy: The Case of the Laozi
Rafal Banka, Jagiellonian University

Buren (不忍) and Ren (仁) : Mencius’s Theory of Moral Emotion
Bongrae Seok, Alvernia University

Foucault and Confucianism
James Garrison, University of Vienna

Recognition, Resentment, and Alterity in the Analects of Confucius
Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

PANEL TWO. East Looks West: Chinese Interpreters of Western Philosophy
Saturday, Feb. 18, 12:15 p.m. -2:15 p.m.
Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University, Chair

Chinese Receptions of Western Philosophy
Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University

Wang Guowei’s Interpretation of Kant
Jinli He, Trinity University

Evolutionism through Chinese Eyes: Yan Fu, Ma Junwu and Their Translations on Darwinian Evolutionism
Vincent Shen, University of Toronto

Zhang Shiying and Contemporary Chinese Scholars' Appreciation of Hegel
Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University

PANEL THREE. Philosophies of Japan and India
Thursday, Feb. 16, 9:00 a.m.-12 noon
Christian Coseru, College of Charleston, Chair

Wonderful, Whatever Being: An Exploration and Synthesis of Giorgio Agamben’s Thus and Shin’ichi Hisamatsu’s Such
Michael Hagan, University of Louisville

Finger Philosophy: Moral Sentimentalism and the Mumokan
Susan M. Purviance, The University of Toledo

The Magnificent Dharmadhatu: Ultimate Reality from the Dzogchen Perspective
Kenneth Faber, Vanderbilt University

Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmakirti’s Karyanumana Argument and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm
Christian Coseru, College of Charleston

SACP SESSIONS AT THE EASTERN DIVISION, 2011
The American Philosophical Association

The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy has announced its two panels for the Eastern APA, as follows:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28th
GROUP SESSION II * 9:00 - 11:00 A.M.
GII * 4. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
9:00 - 12:00 Noon
Topic: Death: East and West
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Suk Choi (Towson University)
"Rethinking Zhuangzi on Life and Death"
Stephen Scales (Towson University)
"Determinist Materialism and Zhuangzi on Death and Destiny"
Carl Yamamoto (Towson University)
"Dying Like a Philosopher, Dying Like a Lama: Lama Zhang and the Material Inheritance of Lineage"
Wolfgang Fuchs (Towson University)
"Thinking Death and Life Differently"
(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28th
GROUP SESSION VI * 7:30 - 10:30 P.M.

GVI * 8. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
7:30 - 10:30 p.m.
Topic: Buddhist Moral Psychology, Physics, and Religiousness
Chair:TBA
Speakers:
Christopher Kelley (Columbia University)
"How Good Tricks Widen the Circle of Altruism: The Abnormal Moral Psychology of Bodhicaryāvatāra
Jake H. Davis (Graduate Center-City University of New York)
"On the Goodness of Goodwill in Early Buddhist Texts"
Robert Alan Paul (Dalhousie University-Nova Scotia)
"How Physics Contravenes the 'Neither-One-Nor-Many' Madhyamaka Argument for Emptiness"
Aaron Fehir (St. Leo University)
"Kierkegaardian Faith and Non-Christian Religion: Religiousness B in Pure Land Buddhism"

SACP SESSIONS AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION

November 19-22, 2011
San Francisco, California

MP 20-394
Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy:
“Current Themes in the Philosophy of Nishida Kitarô”
11/20: Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Room: MM-Sierra H

James Heisig, Nanzan University, Presiding

MichikoYusa, Western Washington University:
Unraveling the Kyoto School’s 'Logic of Soku'-How 'Negation qua Affirmation' is Possible

Takushi Odagiri, Stanford University:
Nishida’s System of Universals and His Concept of Religious Consciousness

Gereon Kopf, Luther College: 
Critical or Topological: Reading Nishida as Subversive Philosopher

MP21-400
Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy:
“Freedom in Indian Philosophy”
11/21: Monday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm

Room: HI-Golden Gate 1

Nona R. Bolin, Memphis College of Art, Presiding

Bina Gupta, University of Missouri: 
Freedom in Advaita Vedanta

Douglas Berger, Southern Illinois University:
Conditioning and Grasping: A Reconsideration of Nagarjuna's Philosophical Vocabulary

Nona R. Bolin, Memphis College of Art:
Freedom from Freedom: Surviving the Absurd in Madhyamika Buddhism
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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