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2020 SACP-Central APA Panels

October 16, 2019 /

SACP Session I: Art of Misunderstanding via Critiques, Wednesday 8PM-11PM

Moderator: Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, joh@wcupa.edu

  1. “Buddhist Metaethics: Problems and Prospects,”

Russell Guilbault (Northern Illinois University),

  1. “The Problem of Evil in Mahāyāna Buddhism”

Seungil Lee and Jinsub Song (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  1. “Capability and Judgment: Mencius, Commitment, and Critique”

Timothy Gutmann (University of Chicago)

  1. “Confucian Competitive Democracy: A Prototype”

Yutang Jin (University of Oxford)

  1. “Gender Rhetoric and the Ideological Formation of Global Governance in Reregionalization of Asian Women”

Yuanfang Dai  (Michigan State University)

SACP Session II: Art of Understanding via Negativa, Thursday 9am-12pm

Moderator: Yuanfang Dai  (Michigan State University),

  1. “No Paradox of the Dao in the Laozi”

Hao Hong (University of Maine)

  1. “Form and Content in the Zhuangzi: Beyond Metaphor”

Roy Porat (Harvard University)

  1. “The Role of Negative Emotions in the Good Life: Reflections from the Zhuangzi”

Richard Kim (Loyola University Chicago)

  1. “Human Emotions, A Comparative Study in Ki Taesung Kobong and David Hume”

Maria Hasfeldt (The University of Copenhagen & Sogang University)

  1. “Cloudy Stream of Consciousness: Cheng Hao’s Account of Nature”

James Brown-Kinsella (Peking University)

SACP Panels at APA Central, 2019 in Denver

October 30, 2018 /

SACP Sessions at the Central Division, American Philosophical Association

February 20-23, 2019
The Westin Downtown Denver
1672 Lawrence Street
Denver, Colorado 80202 USA
Ronnie Littlejohn, SACP Program Chair for APA Central

 

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Title:  Experience, Awareness and Ethics in Himalayan Philosophy
Chair: Constance Kassor (Lawrence University)

Speakers:

Renee Ford (Rice University)
“It’s Not Just Not-Doing: The Relationship between Tantra and Dzogchen in Subject Formation”

Catherine Prueitt (George Mason University)
“Why Care about Freedom and Agency?”

Constance Kassor (Lawrence University)
“Automatic Ethical Action in Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy”

 

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Time: 8:30am – 11:30am

Title:  Chinese Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technological University)

Speakers:

Yuanfang Dai (Michigan State University)
“China’s Gender Trouble and Chinese Feminist Philosophy”

Wang Kun (Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai)
“Naming as Speech Act: Spanning the Chasm between Realism and Conventionalism– Zhengming in Confucius and Xunzi”

Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technological University)
“The ‘Modern’ Turn of Xunzi’s Pre-modern Philosophy”

Hao Hong (University of Maine)
“A Metametaphysical Reading of Zhuangzi’s Qiwulun”

 

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Time: 7:10pm – 10:10pm

Title:  East Asian Approaches to Moral Cultivation in Self and Society
Chair: Kevin Taylor (The University of Memphis)

Speakers:

Johnathan Flowers (Worcester State University)
“Mono no Aware as the Ground for Humane Social Action in the Thought of Motoori Norinaga”

Kevin Taylor (The University of Memphis)
“Moral Cultivation in Hakuin’s Syncretic Buddhist Pedagogy”

Carl Helsing (High Point University)
“Zhuangzi’s Moral Psychology and Humor: The Playful Liberation of Self, Others, and Society”

 

 

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