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) | ||||