ASACP
2008 Conference Programme
Saturday 5 July
9:30 am Emotions, Feelings, Passions: In
Honour of Robert Solomon
Koji Tanaka
Logic, Emotion
and the World: On Nishitani's Haiku
Chesire Calhoun
Living with
Boredom
Padmasiri de Silva
Three
Perspectives on Understanding Humour: Bob Solomon, Soren
Kierkegaard and the Buddhist Contemplative
Tradition
Kathleen Higgins
How the Story
Goes: Solomon on Culture and Emotion
Purushottama
Bilimoria (Respondent)
1:30 pm Heidegger, Nietzsche and Asian
Philosophy
Guy Petterson
Heidegger and
Asian Thought Reconsidered
Toby Mendelson
Nietzsche and
Buddhism
Purushottama
Bilimoria Being after Heidegger: a
Mehta-Mimamsa Rejoinder
Muhammad Kamal
Rethinking
Being: Sadra and Heidegger
4:30 pm Comparative Hermeneutics
Inna Semetsky
Tarot Text as
'Readerly' and 'Writerly'
Sally Lu
Interpreting the Ding
Hexagram
Kim Lai
Correspondences
in the Kalacakra Tantra: the Vajrayana Interpretation of
the Idea of Macrocosm-Microcosm
Eiichi Tosaki
Husserl's
Hermeneutics and Non-representational Meaning of the
Image
6:30 pm Reception Drinks
8:30 pm Conference Dinner
Sunday 6 July
9:30 am Chinese Philosophy: Ethics
Without Principles
Jeremy Seligman
Ridding the
Waters of Snakes and Dragons: Reason and Emotion in
Mencius
Winnie Sung
The Concept of
Heart/Mind in Xunzi
Brian Mooney and John N.
Williams Filial Obligations to
Parents: A Comparative Analysis
Peter Chang
Confucian and
Christian Perspectives on the Inalienable Rights
Doctrine
Peter Wong
Thinking with
Songs (revisited)
John Hanafin
(Respondent)
1:30 pm Buddhism: Variations on the
Middle Way
Elena Walsh
Contradicting
Convention: Thoughts on Candrakirti
Ricki Bliss
Thinking about
Nagarjuna, Thinking about Time
Ian
Coghlan The Centrality of
Dialectic in Madhyamaka
Bronwyn Finnigan
How Can a
Buddha Come to Act? The Possibility of a Buddhist Account
of Ethical Agency
John Powers
(Respondent)
4:30 pm Indian Philosophy
Monima Chadha
Self-awareness:
Eliminating the Myth of the 'Invisible
Subject'
Jane Wiesner
Yoga and
Cognition
Maxine Haire
Yoga
Philosophy and Integral Thinking
6:30 pm Business Meeting
