2013 Uehiro Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Thursday, March 7
5:00 – 6:00
pm Welcome
Reception and Dinner Served
6:00 – 6:45 pm
Special Guest
Speaker: Dr. Ashok Malhotra
"Role
of Religion in Civilization Development"
7:00 – 8:00
pm P4C-style
Inquiry led by the Uehiro Academy
Sakamaki
Hall C-308, Philosophy Lounge
Friday, March 8
7:30 – 8:00 am Coffee,
Tea, and Light Breakfast Served
8:00 – 10:00 am Panel
I: Chinese Philosophy Perspectives
Moderator: Ben Zenk
"A Female's
Defense of Confucianism"
Holly Swantek, University of North Florida
“Meditative Ethics in
Confucianism and Daoism”
Jason A. S.
Kunen, Haverford
College
"Zhuangzi, Dewey,
and the Threat of Dogmatism"
Mary K. Riley, National University
of Singapore
"Food For
Thought: The Role of Eating in the Transformation of Things"
Nick Hudson , University of Hawai'i
10:15 – 12:15 pm Panel
II: Phenomenological and Epistemological Expressions
Moderator: Joe Harroff
“Intelligibility and
Knowability in Kant”
Josh Stoll, University of Hawai'i
"The Physis of
Language: A Perspective on Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Expression and
Nature"
Bonnie Sheehey, University of Oregon
“Questioning
Metaphysics--Problems in the Comparison of Whitehead and Chinese Philosophy”
Jing Liu, University of Hawai'i
“Imagination as the
Source of Norms: A Comparative Study of John McDowell and Kiyoshi Miki”
Wakako Godo, University of Tokyo
12:15 – 1:00pm Lunch
Provided For Conference Presenters
1:15 – 3:15 pm Panel
III: Ethical Attitudes
Moderator: Nick Hudson
"Beyond the Past
and Future: How Can We Construct New Ethics?"
SAKIHAMA Sana , University
of Tokyo
“Truth-Makers: Ethics
as First Philosophy in Confucianism and the Final Foucault”
Ian M.
Sullivan, University
of Hawai'i
"Moderate
Environmental Ethics in Process"
Robert Evans, University of Hawai'i
“New Eugenics'
Insidious Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Proponents' and Opponents' Arguments
about Designer Babies”
Kyoko Akatsuka, Kyoto University
3:15 – 3:30 pm Coffee,
Tea, Refreshments Served
3:30-5:00 pm Panel
IV Buddhism and Indian Philosophy Perspectives
Moderator: Ana Funes
“How to Think:
Listening, the later Heidegger and Zen Buddhism”
Rachel
Robinson, Ryerson University in Toronto
"Loving ‘Like
the Moon-- Drawing Back the Body and Mind’
Searching for
Compassion and the Brahmaviharas Within the Buddha's Call for Abandonment”
Scott Van Note, St. John's College
of Santa Fe
“Tragedy and Reconciliation
in the Ramayana”
Brooke
Schueneman, University
of Georgia
5:15 – 7:15 pm Keynote
Address
Introduction by Dr. Tamara Albertini
“Grief and the
Aesthetics of Loss and Mourning”
Dr. Kathleen Higgins
Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, March 9
7:30 – 8:00 am Coffee,
Tea, and Light Breakfast Served
8:00 – 9:30 am Panel
V: Ancient Philosophy Reconsidered
Moderator: Joel Lebel
“Material Flows:
Human Flourishing and the Life of Goods”
Kevin Taylor, Southern
Illinois University
"Imāns and
Philosopher Kings: Plato in the Ismāʿīlī
Shīʹa Philosophy of Nasīr
al-Dīn Tūsī"
Jarrod W.
Brown, University
of Hawai'i
“Idle, Ideal Hands”
Brandon
Underwood, University
of Hawai'i
9:45 - 11:15 am Panel
VI: Values and Poetics
Moderator: Brandon Underwood
"Evaluating the
Fales/Gellman Debate on the Epistemic Value of Mystical Religious
Experiences."
Leland Harper, University of Birmingham
"Addressing
Contemporary Cynicism"
Will
Barnes, University
of New Mexico
“Ozu and the Art of
Telling Stories”
Kyle Peters, University of Hawai'i
11:45 – 12:45 pm. Lunch
Provided
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Keynote Address
Introduction by Dr. Joseph Tanke
“Buddhist Immunology”
Dr. Rajam Raghunathan
Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Hawai’i
2:30 – 3:00 pm Closing
Ceremony
3:00 pm Conference
Photo
4:00 – 7:00
pm Potluck
Barbeque
Significant support for this conference was provided by the
Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education.
Additional support was provided by the Hung Wo and Elizabeth
Ching Foundation,
the College
of Arts
Student Association, and the Student Association Program Fee
Board.
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