Annual Conference 2005

Chair: Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre
Dame

“IF I WERE YOU: Analogy, Simulation,
Empathy, and the Possibility of Friendship”
Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawaii

Friday, October 21, 2005

Chair: Peimin Ni, Grand Valley State University

“Two Kinds of Warrant: Plantingas’s
and Confucian”
Peimin Ni, Grand Valley State University

“Have Pleasure with the People – But Don’t Plough With Them!
Commonality and Difference in the Mengzi”
Franklin Perkins, DePaul University

“Hitting the Mark: Oneself and the
Other in Confucian Ethics”
James Behuniak, Sonoma State University

“Self or Other: Why The Real Discovery
is the One that Lets Me Take the Next Step By Myself”
James Peterman, Sewanee, the University of the South

Panel Two: Beings, Selves,
and Friends

Chair: Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo

“Being and the Structure of Beings
in Three Philosophies”
Eric M. Buck, Transylvania University

“Gappy, Groundless Selves: Hume,
Wittgenstein, and Zhuangzi”
Joseph Johnson, Leeward Community College

“The Ontology of Self and its Relation
to Ethics in Dharmakirti and Beauvoir”
Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University

“Cicero and Confucius on Friendship”
Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo

Chair: Robin Wang,
Loyola Marymount University

“The Xingming Cultivation: A Human
Potential for Eternal Divinity”
Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University

“Hearts [xin] in Agreement: Zhuangzi
on Becoming Friends”
Donald Blakeley, California State University, Fresno

“Towards a Genuine Self-Other Relationship:
Merleau-Ponty and Chuang Tzu”
Ching-Ching Lin, Global Technology Institute

Panel Four: Buddhism and Ethics

Chair: Matthew Mackenzie, Muhlenberg
College

“Embodying Compassion: The Role
of the Body in Ethical Relationships”
Ashby Butnor, Ithaca College

“Enacting Worlds: Karma and the
Construction of the Life-World”
Matthew MacKenzie, Muhlenberg College

“Realized Otherness: Dogen, Total
Exertion, and Radical Passivity”
Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Chair: John J. Holder, St. Norbert College

“Reciprocity of Self and Other:
An Early Buddhist Model for a
Substantive Ethics”
John J. Holder, St. Norbert College

“Openness to the Other: Boundless
Love or De-centered Subject?”
Thomas E. Reynolds, St. Norbert College

“The Self and the Transcendent
Community: Royce’s Buddhist Influences”
Kelly Parker, Grand Valley State University

Panel Six: Spousal Relations

Chair: Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, University
of Mary Washington

“Marriage, Social Commitment and
Brahmacharya: The Physical, Social, and Spiritual Love in Gandhi’s
Life”
Veena Rani Howard, Lane Community College/University of Oregon

“Identity Thesis and Contemporary
Family Disorder”
Raphael Funwa Iluyomade, National University of Singapore

“Rectifying Nei-Wai: Friendship
as Spousal Relation”
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, University of Mary Washington

Chair: Joseph Prabhu, CA State University
– Los Angeles

“Revisioning the ‘Relational’ in
Classical Yoga: Getting it
Right with Prakrti”
Ian Whicher, University of Manitoba

“The Meaning of the Sexual Positions”
James Giles, University of Guam

“Reconciling Difference and Non-Difference:
Self and Other in the Vedanta of Vijnanabhiksu”
Andrew J. Nicholson, Saint Vincent College

Panel Eight: Buddhism
and the Body

Chair: Wendy Donner, Carlton University

“Provider/Client Relations in Health
Care, Illuminated by the Early Buddhist Tradition”
Sherry L. Hartman, University of Southern Mississippi

“To Be or Not to Be Vegetarian
Nuns: Conflicts between Confucian Ethics, Local Identities, and
Buddhist Precepts”
Chia-Lan Chang, University of Southern California

“Of Immanent Souls and Transcendent
Subtle Bodies”
Angela Sumegi, Carleton University

Chair: John W.M. Krummel. Temple University

“The Ethics of Attainment: A Comparison
of the Meaning of the Ethical in Derrida and Dogen”
Victor Forte, Albright College

“The Body: Nishida and Zeami”
Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University

“Embodied Implacement in Kukai
and Nishida”
John W.M. Krummel, Temple University

Breakfast

Chair: Bart Gruzalski, Pacific Center for
Sustainable Living

“No Self Awareness in Early Vedic
Thought”
Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley State University

“A Contribution to the Critique
of the Early Hindu Doctrine of Transcendental Immanence”
Chanh Cong Phan, San Jose State University

“Wisdom and the Bhagavad Gita”
Bart Gruzalski, Pacific Center for Sustainable Living

“Wu-wei and Nishkamakarma- A Study
of Dao De Jing and the Bhagavad Gita”
K. R. Sundararajan, St. Bonaventure University

Panel Ten: Neo-Confucianism and Nature

Chair: Joanne D. Birdwhistell, The Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey

“The Loss of Wilderness, the Loss of Humaneness”
Joanne D. Birdwhistell, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

“To Form One Body With Heaven,
Earth, and the Myriad Things: Neo-Confucian Moral Cultivation
of the Western (human) Animal”
Amy Weigand, Temple University

“A True Industry For Sages: Fishing
and the Moral Work of Knowing in Shao Yong’s Dialogue Between
a Fisherman and a Woodcutter and Thoreau’s Walden”
Matt Stefon, Boston University

“Physicalism and Ch’i: A Neo-Confucian Perspective on Contemporary
Philosophy of Mind”
Suck Choi, Grand Valley State University

Buddhism and Ethics (4)

Chair: Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough/CUNY

“Supervenience, Functional Reduction,
and Buddhist No-Self”
Chang-Seong Hong, Minnesota State University Moorhead

“Skillful Means and Moral Theory: Prospects
for a Buddhist Ethics of Non-Dualism”
Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough/CUNY

“The Contemplation
of Immanent Buddha(s) and Their Problems”
Sak Shih Nam (Dhammadipa), University of Bristol

Panel Twelve: Confucian Relations

Chair: Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington
University

“Motivating Moral Beauty: Confucianism,
American
Philosophy, and Subjective Well-Being”
Heather Keith, Green Mountain College

“The Role of Remonstrance (jian)
in Confucian Relations”
Virginia Suddath, East-West Center

“For the Sins of the Father (Mother,
Grandparents?): Familial and Communal Responsibility in Judaism
and Medieval China”
Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington University

Chair: Anna Lannstrom,
Stonehill College

“Confucian Moral Cultivation and
the Master-Student Relationship: Filial Piety in the Martial Arts”
Richard Schubert, Cosumnes River College

“Befriending Our Students: Sacrificing
Professional Distance”
Anna Lannstrom, Stonehill College

“Zen Koan Practice and Speech Act
Theory”
Scott R. Stroud, Temple University

Panel Fourteen: Buddism
and Postmodern Philosophy

Chair: Mary Jeanne Larrabee, DePaul University

“Hearing the Voices of the Mute:
Dogen and Merleau-Ponty on Our Relation to the Insentient”
Patrick Wyant, Temple University

“Self and World: A Postmodern and
Buddhist Investigation”
Michael Hagan, University of Louisville

“Finding the Immediacy of Zen Compassion: With the Help of
Kierkegaard’s Ethics and Deleuze’s Ontology”

Chair: Kim Skoog, University of Guam

“The Virtue of Freedom”
Mary I. Bockover, Humboldt State University

“Nagarjuna on Punishment and Criminal
Justice”
Charles Goodman, Binghamton University (SUNY)

“Can salvation be had without compromising
justice? Sorting out the relation between justice, grace, asceticism,
ritual, and punishment”
Kim Skoog, University of Guam

Panel Sixteen: Creativity and Relationship

Chair: Marc Applebaum, Saybrook Graduate School

“Kitaro Nishida on the Dialectic
of ‘I-and-Thou'”
Joel Krueger, Purdue University

“True Reality, Art and Emptiness:
A Comparative Study of Heidegger and Nishitani”
Ping Guan, Syracuse University

“Intuition and Intersubjectivity:
A Phenomenological Analysis of Artistic Creativity”
Marc Applebaum, Saybrook Graduate School

Chair: Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre
Dame

Participants:
Joseph Prabhu, California State University-Los Angeles
Henry Rosemont, Jr., Brown University
John Holder, St. Norbert College
Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough/CUNY
Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University

Chair: Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University

“Mencius on Pleasure”
Michael Nylan, University of California – Berkeley

“On the Natural Theology of the
Chinese”
Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

“Did Confucius Teach Us How To
Become Gods?”
Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University

“Confucian Ethics, Concept-Clusters,
and Human Rights”
Sumner B. Twiss, Florida State University

“On Being a Civil[ilized] Daoist: Further Explorations in
Chinese Civility”
Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington University

Response: Henry Rosemont, Jr., Brown University