The draft APA Pacific Conference (April 4-7, Seattle, USA) program is now available. I have copied information from all panels with content relevant to this blog’s concerns below (apologies if I missed any; please point out any omissions!). I have arranged them chronologically. As you will see, there is a great deal going on—and quite a few overlapping panels. The message from the Program Committee states:
…Please take a look at the draft and let us know by December 1 of any corrections that should be made. Please note, however, that putting on a meeting as large and complex as this means that requests for timetable changes can only be made in the most rare and extraordinary circumstances.
(Update: I have added a few more that I missed on my first pass.)
| G2A | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1 | ||||
| Wednesday, April 4, 7:00-10:00 p.m. | |||||
| Topic: | ISCWP Tenth Anniversary Chinese-Western Constructive Engagements: Metaphysics, Naturalism, and Science | ||||
| Chair: | Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) | ||||
| Speakers: | Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University) | ||||
| “Moral Metaphysics: East and West” | |||||
| Bo Mou (San Jose State University) | |||||
| “Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology, Liberal Naturalism, and Daoist Naturalism: How It is Possible for Them to Constructively Engage Each Other?” | |||||
| Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) | |||||
| “Science and Metaphysics in China’s Encounter with Pragmatism” | |||||
| Commentators: | Xiaofei Tu (Appalachian State University) | ||||
| Ralph Weber (Universität Zürich) | |||||
| Guo Yi (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) | |||||
| G2M | Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Session 1 | ||||
| Wednesday, April 4, 7:00-10:00 p.m. | |||||
| Chair: | Kisor Chakrabarti (Davis and Elkins College) | ||||
| Speakers: | Clint Jones (University of Kentucky) | ||||
| “A Zen Master and a Capitalist Walk into a Bar … How Integrating Interconnectivity Is Necessary for a Future Environmental Ethic” | |||||
| Glen Pettigrove (University of Auckland) | |||||
| Koji Tanaka (University of Auckland) | |||||
| “Anger and Moral Judgment” | |||||
| Joshua Anderson (St. Louis University) | |||||
| “Character Consequentialism: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Mill” | |||||
| Tista Bagchi (CSIR-NISTADS and University of Delhi) | |||||
| “Ethical Principles Behind Policy on Reproductive Technologies in India” | |||||
| Audrey L. Anton (Western Kentucky University) | |||||
| “Flexible and Fixed Character States: Aristotle on the Permanence and Mutability of Distinct Types of Character” | |||||
| Ervin Castle (Brock University) | |||||
| “Losing the Wager: Desire and Duty in the Bhagavad Gita” | |||||
| Marisol Brito (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | |||||
| “Releasing Arendtian Forgiveness: An Interfaith Approach” | |||||
| Jonathan Miller (Bowling Green State University) | |||||
| “The Role of Wu-Wei in Virtuous Activity” | |||||
| Gordon Haist (University of South Carolina–Beaufort) | |||||
| “Value Conflicts in Ethical Reasoning” | |||||
| G3A | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1 | ||||
| Wednesday, April 4, 9:00-11:00 p.m. | |||||
| Topic: | Topics in Classical Chinese Philosophy | ||||
| Chair: | Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | ||||
| Speaker: | Sumner B. Twiss (Florida State University) | ||||
| Jonathan Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) | |||||
| “Classical Confucianism, Punitive Expeditions, and Humanitarian Intervention” | |||||
| Presenters: | Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | ||||
| “Hanfeizi and Welfare?” | |||||
| Carl Dull (University of North Carolina–Greensboro) | |||||
| “The Wandering Heart: Moral Psychology in the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi” | |||||
| Bongrae Seok (Alvernia University) | |||||
| “What Is Qing? A Situationist Interpretation” | |||||
| 5D | Invited Symposium: Comparative Perspectives on Virtue and Moral Psychology | |||
| Thursday, April 5, 1:00-4:00 p.m. | ||||
| Chair: | Lisa Raphals (National University of Singapore) | |||
| Speakers: | Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis & Clark College) | |||
| Ralph Weber (Universität Zürich) | ||||
| Jiyuan Yu (University at Buffalo) | ||||
| 5E | Invited Symposium: Early Modern European Philosophy Encounters the Non-European World | |||
| Thursday, April 5, 1:00-4:00 p.m. | ||||
| Chair: | David Owen (University of Arizona) | |||
| Speakers: | Franklin Perkins (DePaul University) | |||
| “Leibniz on Unity and Diversity Across Cultures” | ||||
| Patrick Connolly (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | ||||
| “Travel Literature, the New World, and Locke’s Philosophy” | ||||
| Commentators: | Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University) | |||
| Jan-Erik Jones (Southern Virginia University) | ||||
| 6C | Colloquium: Buddhism and Confucianism | ||||
| Thursday, April 5, 4:00-6:00 p.m. | |||||
| 4:00-5:00 | |||||
| Chair: | Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) | ||||
| Speaker: | Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technological University) | ||||
| “The Confucian Conception of Freedom from a Feminist Perspective” [abstract | preprint] | |||||
| Commentator: | Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||
| 5:00-6:00 | |||||
| Chair: | Margaret Cameron (University of Victoria) | ||||
| Speaker: | Nicolas Bommarito (Brown University) | ||||
| “Patience and Perspective” [abstract | preprint] | |||||
| Commentator: | Brian Bruya (Eastern Michigan University) | ||||
| G4D | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2 | |||
| Thursday, April 5, 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||
| Topic: | Topics in Indian and Tibetan Philosophy | |||
| Chair: | Adrienne C. Cochran (Green River Community College) | |||
| Presenters: | Malcolm Keating (University of Texas–Austin) | |||
| “Lakṣaṇā and Sort-Shifting in Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Abhidhāvṛttimātṛkā” | ||||
| Adrienne C. Cochran (Green River Community College) | ||||
| “Tibetan Buddhism in the West: The Next Generation” | ||||
| Donna Dorsey (Grant MacEwan University) | ||||
| “Transference of Merit and the Transformation of Karma” | ||||
| G5C | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2 | ||||
| Thursday, April 5, 7:00-10:00 p.m. | |||||
| Topic: | Moral Psychology in Early Chinese Philosophy | ||||
| Chair: | Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) | ||||
| Speakers: | Carl Dull (University of North Carolina–Greensboro) | ||||
| “Language, Speech Acts, and Moral Psychology in the Zhuangzi” | |||||
| Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) | |||||
| “Sagehood and Supererogation in Confucius’ Analects” | |||||
| Ryan Nichols (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| “The Origins and Effects of Shame in Early Confucianism” | |||||
| Deborah Mower (Youngstown State University) | |||||
| “Understanding Rituals as Scripts: Confucianism Meets Western Psychology” | |||||
| Commentators: | Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University) | ||||
| Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | |||||
| Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) | |||||
| Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos) | |||||
| G6C | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1 | ||||
| Thursday, April 5, 9:00-11:00 p.m. | |||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Ruiping Fan, Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West | ||||
| Chair: | Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technological University) | ||||
| Author: | Ruiping Fan (City University of Hong Kong) | ||||
| Critics: | Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technological University) | ||||
| Ronnie Littlejohn (Belmont University) | |||||
| Lauren Pfister (Hong Kong Baptist University) | |||||
| 7N | APA Committee Session: Much Ado about Nothing: Conceptions of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy | ||||
| Friday, April 6, 9:00-Noon | |||||
| Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies | |||||
| Chair: | Douglas Berger (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | ||||
| Speakers: | Jay Garfield (Smith College, University of Melbourne, and Central University of Tibetan Studies) | ||||
| “Empty of What? Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti as Realists, Not Nihilists” [abstract] | |||||
| Curtis Rigsby (University of Guam) | |||||
| “The Kyoto School on Nothingness: Japan’s Philosophical Response to the West” [abstract] | |||||
| Bo Wang (Peking University) | |||||
| “The Way to Nothingness: From Laozi to Zhuangzi” | |||||
| JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| “Was There Something in Nothingness? – The Debate on the Primordial State between Neo-Daoism and Neo-Confucianism” [abstract] | |||||
| Commentator: | Roy Sorensen (Washington University in St. Louis) | ||||
| 8E | Invited Symposium: Perspectives on the Zhuangzi | |||
| Friday, April 6, 1:00-4:00 p.m. | ||||
| Chair: | Lisa Raphals (National University of Singapore) | |||
| Speakers: | Romain Graziani (École Normale Supérieure) | |||
| Mark Csikszentmihalyi (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||
| Albert Galvany (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | ||||
| 9M | APA Committee Session: Contemporary Philosophical Development in East Asia | ||||
| Friday, April 6, 4:00-6:00 p.m. | |||||
| Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies | |||||
| Chair: | Halla Kim (University of Nebraska–Omaha) | ||||
| Speakers: | Zhen Han (Beijing Normal University) | ||||
| “Modern Chinese Philosophy and Its Challenges in Society” | |||||
| Yukio Irie (Osaka University) | |||||
| “Philosophy in Japan after World War II” [abstract] | |||||
| Suksoo Kim (Kyungpook National University) | |||||
| “Some Main Issues in Philosophy in Korea since 1945” | |||||
| G8A | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1 | ||||
| Friday, April 6, 7:00-10:00 p.m. | |||||
| Topic: | Ancient Chinese Values in the Context of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology | ||||
| Chair: | Owen Flanagan (Duke University) | ||||
| Speaker: | Kelly James Clark (Calvin College) | ||||
| “The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion: Pre-Qin High Gods as Punishers and Rewarders” | |||||
| Commentator: | Steven Geisz (University of Tampa) | ||||
| Speaker: | Mingran Tan (University of Toronto) | ||||
| “A Comparative Study of Confucian Benevolence/ren and Darwinian Sympathy” | |||||
| Commentator: | Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) | ||||
| Speaker: | Jennifer Lundin Ritchie (University of British Columbia) | ||||
| “Cognitive Science vs. Xunzi on Status and Authority” | |||||
| Commentator: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | ||||
| Speaker: | Qiong Wang (State University of New York–Oneonta) | ||||
| “The Sensibleness of an ‘Absolutistic’ Confucian Familial Morality” | |||||
| Commentator: | Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) | ||||
| G8C | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2 | |||
| Friday, April 6, 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||
| Topic: | World Philosophy and Hermeneutics: Chinese and German Perspectives | |||
| Chairs: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||
| Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||
| Speakers: | Eric S. Nelson (University of Massachusetts–Lowell) | |||
| “Interpretive Conflict and World-Formation: Dilthey, Heidegger, and Intercultural Hermeneutics” | ||||
| Franklin Perkins (DePaul University) | ||||
| “Leibniz and Intercultural Hermeneutics” | ||||
| Martin Schonfeld (University of South Florida) | ||||
| “World Philosophy and Climate Change: The German-Chinese Pathway to Civil Evolution” | ||||
| Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||
| “World Philosophy and Hermeneutics: A Chinese Philosophical Perspective” | ||||
| 10C | Invited Symposium: Cultivating Virtue | |||
| Saturday, April 7, 9:00-Noon | ||||
| Chair: | Margaret Crouch (Eastern Michigan University) | |||
| Speakers: | Edward Slingerland (University of British Columbia) | |||
| “Confucian Virtue Ethics in Light of Contemporary Cognitive Science” | ||||
| Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University) | ||||
| “Should Virtue Be Taught?” | ||||
| Darcia Narvaez (University of Notre Dame) | ||||
| “The Cultivation of Different Moral Mindsets” | ||||
| Michael Slote (University of Miami) | ||||
| “Why We Need Sentimentalist Moral Education” | ||||
| 11M | APA Committee Session: Virtue Epistemology and Chinese Philosophy | ||||
| Saturday, April 7, 1:00-4:00 p.m. | |||||
| Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation | |||||
| Chair: | Chienkuo Mi (Soochow University) | ||||
| Speakers: | Wang Zhi-Hue (Soochow University) | ||||
| “Action as Performance” | |||||
| Kai Marchal (Soochow University) | |||||
| “The Epistemic Function of Virtuous Emotions: The Neo-Confucian View” [abstract] | |||||
| Chienkuo Mi (Soochow University) | |||||
| “Virtue and Skill: Virtue Epistemology and Chinese Philosophy” [abstract] | |||||
| Cheng-Hung Tsai (Soochow University) | |||||
| “Xunzi (荀子) and Virtue Epistemology” [abstract] | |||||
| Shen Hsiang-Min (Soochow University) | |||||
| “Zhu Xi on ‘Intellectual Virtue’: A Perspective from Virtue Epistemology” | |||||
| Commentators: | Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University) | ||||
| Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University) | |||||
| G10B | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 2 | ||||
| Saturday, April 7, 7:00-10:00 p.m. | |||||
| Topic: | Issues in Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy: Moral Cosmology and Theories of Just War | ||||
| Chair: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | ||||
| Speaker: | Liang Cai (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville) | ||||
| “Political Application of Moral Cosmology and Its Bankruptcy in Western Han China (206BCE—8CE)” | |||||
| Commentator: | Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||
| Speaker: | Weigang Chen (University of Macau) | ||||
| “Confucian Humanism and Theodicy” | |||||
| Commentator: | Ronnie Littlejohn (Belmont University) | ||||
| Speaker: | Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University) | ||||
| “A Challenge to Just War Thinking: Why Laozi Would Say ‘No’ to Punitive Expeditions?” | |||||
| Commentator: | Xiaofei Tu (Appalachian State University) | ||||
| Speaker: | Ping-cheung Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University) | ||||
| “Warfare Ethics in Sunzi’s Art of War? Historical Controversies and Contemporary Perspectives” | |||||
| Commentator: | Sumner B. Twiss (Florida State University) | ||||
