Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy Sessions
The American Philosophical Association, Central Division
Palmer House Hilton hotel, Chicago February 27 – March 1, 2014
Thursday Evening, February 27, 2014
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Panel Title: Conception of the States and Nature of Consciousness in Classical Indian Thought
Chair: Bina Gupta, University of Missouri-Columbia
“Mokṣa (Liberating Consciousness) as Ānanda”
Bina Gupta, University of Missouri-Columbia
“The Buddhist Turn Toward Luminosity: Transformations in Vijñānavāda Thought”
Douglas L. Berger, Southern Illinois University
“On the Question to Which Vasubandhu’s Proof of Idealism is the Answer”
Dan Arnold, University of Chicago
Saturday midday, March 1, 2014
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Panel Title: Asian Philosophical Traditions
Chair: Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“Confucian Self-Cultivation and Meta-Virtue”
Bongrae Seok, Alvernia University
“The Question of Confucius in German Philosophy”
Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“Emptiness as Subject-Object Unity: Sengzhao on the Way Things Truly Are”
Chien-hsing Ho, Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, Nanhua University, Taiwan
“Demandingness, Wellbeing and the Bodhisattva Path”
Stephen Harris, University of New Mexico
