Annual Conference 2007

Sunday, June 10, 2007

2:30 p.m.

Registration Begins  

3:30 p.m.

Opening Ceremony                                                        

3:45 p.m.- 5:45 p.m.

Panel One (Plenary): “Explorations in Feminist Comparative Philosophy: The Ethics of Emotions”  

Co-Chair: Ashby Butnor, Wells College & Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University

Lisa Rosenlee, University of Hawaii at West Oahu

     “A Confucian Reflection on Feminist Care Ethics”

Vrinda Dalmiya, University of Hawaii at Manoa

     “Metaphysic of Moral love: Feminist Ethic and Applied Advaita”

Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University

     “Experiencing Anger, Recognizing Injustice: A Study in Feminist and Buddhist Perspectives”

Ashby Butnor, Wells College, Commentator

5:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Dinner break – Dinner is served between 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.  

7:00- p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Executive Board Meeting  

8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Plenary Session: Keynote Address by Eliot Deutsch

Chair: Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

Eliot Deutsch, Professor Emeritus University of Hawaii at Manoa

“SACP, Comparative Philosophy, and ‘Metaphysical Value’”

9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Evening Social Hour – open bar and snacks  

Monday, June 11, 2007

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast is served between 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Panel Two: Anthony Parel’s Book, Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony

Chair: Joseph Prabhu, California State University Los Angeles

Panelists:

     Joseph Prabhu, California State University of Los Angeles

     Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

     Doug Allen, The Maples, University of Maine

     Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside

     Anthony Parel, response in absentia

Panel Three: Faith, Reason, and Meaning

Chair: Mary Bockover, Humboldt State University

Mary Bockover, Humboldt State University

     “The Philosophical Foundation of Faith”

Snjezana Akpinar, Institute of World Religions

     “Skepticism East West – The Place of Doubt in Islam and its Philosophies”

Al Albergate, California State University, Los Angeles

     “Finding Meaning In Suffering: Buddhist and Existentialist Paths”

Se-geun Jeong, Chungbuk National University

     “The Turnover of Reality: A Comparative Study of Western Substance and Eastern T’i (體)”

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Panel Four: Buddhism and Deconstruction

Chair: John Krummel, Temple University

Gereon Kopf, Luther College

     “Language Games, Selflessness, and the Death of God: The Concept of Religion in Contemporary Zen Philosophy and Deconstruction”

Jin Y. Park, American University

     “Derrida, Buddhism and the Ethics of Tension”

Steven Heine, Florida International University

     “The Sense of Non-Sense: Zen Literature in Light of Modern Western Sources from Alice to Cage”

Panel Five: Reflecting on the Ancients: Chinese Philosophy Today

Chair: Lin Ma, Institute of Philosophy, K.U. Leuven

Jim Behuniak, Colby College

     “The Varieties of ‘One’ in the Daodejing.” 

Chenyang Li, Central Washington University

     “Clashing Obligations: The Case of Mencius”

Daniel Coyle, Our Lady of the Lake University

     “Rethinking The Book of Master Guigu and the Zonghengjia: Undercurrents in Chinese Thought”

12:15 p.m. -2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break – Lunch is served between 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Panel Six: Graduate Students Paper Award Session

Chair: Joseph Prabhu, California State University Los Angeles

Daniel Stephens, University of Hong Kong

<First Prize winner of 2007 SACP Graduate Student Paper Award >

     “The Analects and Ethics in a Postmodern World”

Jeremy Henkel, University of Hawaii at Manoa

     “Understanding Deductive Inference”

Alan Tomhave, University of Missouri-Columbia

     “Cartesian Intuitions, Humean Puzzles, and the Buddhist Conception of the Self”

Panel Seven: The future of Hermeneutics, or Hermeneutics of the Future

Chair: Karsten Struhl, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

Lara Mitias, University of Hawaii at Manoa

     “Valuing the Past, Transforming the Future”

Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

     “Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Comparative Philosophy”

Jesús Ilundáin, Linfield College

     “Fighting Fire with Fire: Giving up Desire by Giving into It”

3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Tea Break

3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Panel Eight: Heidegger and Asian Thought (1)

Chair: Douglas Berger, Southern Illinois University

Ping Guan, Syracuse University

“Nature, Metaphysics and Things in the Later Heidegger and Wang Bi”

Chesna Braniger, Southern Illinois University

“Heidegger and Zhuāngzǐ on the Shackles of the Public World and Authentic Personhood”

Huaiyu Wang, Penn State University

 “Care and Reverence: Exploring the Origins of Early Confucian Thinking”

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Panel Nine: Greek Connections 

Chair: Tongdong Bai, Xavier University

Anh Tuan Nuyen, National University of Singapore

     “Identifying Stoic Elements in Confucian Ethics”

Donna Dorsey, Grant MacEwan College,

     “A Comparative Study of Compassion and Justice”

Chris Kirby, University of South Florida (Tampa)

     “Education as Greek Paideia, Chinese Xué (學 ), and Deweyan Growth”

5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Membership Business Meeting (Everyone is not only welcome but kindly requested to attend it) 

6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.

Dinner Break – dinner is served until 7:00 p.m.

7:45 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Panel Ten (Plenary): The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy  

Chair: Roger Ames, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Panelists:

Roger Ames, University of Hawaii at Manoa,

     “’The Style of Truths and the Truthfulness of Style’: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy”

Henry Rosemont, Jr., Brown University

     “Tensions between the Concepts of Personal Freedom and Social Justice”

Thomas Kasulis, Ohio State University

     “ **”

Joseph Grange, University of Southern Maine

     “Reading the ‘Aesthetic Turn’”

Eliot Deutsch, responding

9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Evening Social Hour – open bar and snacks 

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast  – Crocker Dining Room

8:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.

Panel Eleven: Confucianism and Politics 

Chair: Tan Sor-hoon, National University of Singapore

Tongdong Bai, Xavier University

     “Why Shouldn’t a Confucian Save a State in Crisis?– On the Confucian Wisdom of Moral Obligation and Moral Courage”

Andrew Colvin, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

     “Contra Wang Mang 王莽: The Fa yan 法言as Admonition”

Hui-chieh Loy, National University of Singapore

     “Reflections on Two ‘State of Nature’ Arguments from Ancient China”

Justin Tiwald, San Francisco State University

     “Confucian ‘Rights’ without Confucian Remedies: The Future of the Human Rights Debate in Chinese Political Thought”

8:30 a.m. -10:45 a.m.

Panel Twelve: Engaged “Comparative” Philosophy as Cross-cultural Dialogue: The Contributions of Raimon Panikkar

Chair: Roger Rapp, Independent Scholar

Raimon Panikkar, message in absentia

Roger Rapp, Independent Scholar

     “The Golden Rule of Interpretation and Human Invariants in the Pluralism of R. Panikkar”

Ernie Tamminga, Independent Scholar

     “Thin Space and Hard Boundaries: The Application of the Pluralism of R. Panikkar to the Practice of Spiritual Direction”

Warren Lew, Ventura College

     “Comparative Philosophy: The Future in the Path of R. Panikkar”

Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University

     “Was Prajāpati Mistaken? A Philosophy of Language by Raimon Panikkar”

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Coffee Break 

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Panel Thirteen: Cutting Edge Approaches to the Indian Traditions 

Chair: Doug Allen, University of Maine

Stephen Kaplan, Manhattan College

     “When Advaita meets neuropsychology, must one crumble?”

Veena Howard, University of Oregon

     “Ancient Philosophical Principles for the Modern Times: Analysis and Applications”

Mathew Varghese, Aoyama Gakuin University

     “Buddhist view on Economic Freedom: a Reevaluation based on the Mādhyamika Dialectics”

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Panel Fourteen: Fruitful Promises of Dialogical Practices

Chair: Jim Behuniak, Colby College

Meilin Chinn, University of Hawaii at Manoa

     “Philosophia:  Listening into the Distance”

Lin Chen-kuo, National Chengchi University, Taipei

     “Dwelling in the Nearness of Gods: A Hermeneutical Turn from Mou Zongsan to Tu Weiming”

12:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Panel Fifteen: Ethics Interdisciplinary Approaches

Chair: Henry Rosemont, Jr. , Brown University

Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough Community College/CUNY

     “What do we compare in Comparative Ethics?”

Barbra Clayton, Mount Allison University

     “The Utility of Virtue and the Virtue of Theory: The Complexities of Comparative Moral Theorizing in Śāntideva’s Mahāyāna Buddhism”

Matthew MacKenzie, Muhlenberg College

     “Ontological Deflationism in Madhyamaka”

Panel Sixteen: Japanese Philosophers in Dialogue

Chair: Gereon Kopf, Luther College

John Krummel, Temple University

     “Basho: Nishida-Philosophy as a Response to Neo-Kantian Dualism”

Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic University

      “Das Unendlische and Satori: Natorp, Nishida and the Problem of God and Consciousness”

Leah Kalmanson, University of Hawaii at Manoa

<2007 Winner of the Uehiro Foundation Essay Contest>

     “The Ethics of Emptiness: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsurō and Emmanuel Levinas”

3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Tea Break

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Panel Seventeen: Cross-cultural Philosophy in Action: Methodology

Chair: Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough Community College

Douglas Berger, Southern Illinois University

     “Schopenhauer’s Encounter with Indian Thought: Legacies for Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics”

Sor-hoon Tan, National University of Singapore

     “New Confucians on Chinese and Western Cultures and Philosophies:  Some methodological questions in comparative philosophy”  

Karsten Struhl, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

     “No Philosophy without Cross-Cultural Philosophy”

3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

Panel Eighteen: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies

Chair: Al Albergate, California State University Los Angeles

Mary Jeanne Larrabee, DePaul University

     “Between a Critical Buddhism and a Critical Phenomenology: Another Way into a ‘Critical’ Realization of Buddhist Experience”

Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside

     “On Creating a Cosmopolitan Canon of Political Theory”

Stephen Rowe, Grand Valley State University

     “Dialogue as Philosophy”

Joseph Johnson, Kennesaw State University

     “Groundlessness:  Its Epistemological and Metaphysical Understandings East and West”

5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

FORUM Editorial Board Meeting 

5:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.

Dinner Break  

7:45 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Panel Nineteen: Heidegger & Asian Thought (2)

Chair: Thomas Kasulis

Sakiko Kitagawa, University of Tokyo

     “The Place of Ethics in Culture – Heidegger and Watsuji Tetsuro”

Lin Ma, Institute of Philosophy, K. U. Leuven

     “Heidegger’s Ambiguous Attitude towards East Asian Languages”

Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame, responding

9:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.

Evening Social Hour – open bar and snacks

Wednesday, June 13

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.

Panel Twenty: The Development and Revival of Comparative Philosophy and the SACP

Chair: Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University

Panelists

Doug Allen, University of Maine

Michael Barnhart、Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Joseph Prabhu, California State University Los Angeles

9:50 a.m. -10:00 a.m.

Coffee break -Heather

10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Panel Twenty-one: The Future of Comparative Philosophy and the SACP

Chair: Matthew MacKenzie, Muhlenberg College

Panelists

Ashby Butnor, Wells College

Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Sor-hoon Tan, University of Singapore

Charles Good man, Binghamton University

11:45 a.m.

Checkout

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and Farewell