The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (A&HF 5600) is intended for all masters and doctoral students in the program in Philosophy and Education. Others who are interested in attending a session should contact the coordinator, Professor Megan Laverty.
January 26 Chu Hsi’s Ethics of Reading: for the Recovery of Humanistic Pedagogies of Learning
Duck-Joo Kwak, Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National
University, South Korea & Wsiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, CU
February 9 A Quest for Freedom In Colonial limes: Sor Juana lnes de la Cruz on Liberty
Virginia Aspe, Researcher, Philosophy Faculty, Panamericana University, Mexico
February 16 The Dignity of Difference: Toward a Metaphysical Justification of Care for the Other
Eli Vinokur, Teaching Fellow, University of Haifa, Israel and Wsiting
Scholar in the Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
location: Horace Mann 332
February 23 Passion and imagination: Where Poetry, Philosophy and Life Intersect
Edward Mooney, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Philosophy, Syracuse University
Location: Horace Mann 332
March 9 Pedagogy, Knowledge and Possibility in the Experience of the Self
Rosa Hong Chen, Sessional Instructor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
and Visiting Scholar, Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
March 23 Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
Naoko Saito, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education,
Univeristy of Kyoto, Japan
Paul Standish, Professor and Chair of Philosphy Education,
University College London, Institiute of Education, United Kingdom
Location: Horace Mann 332
March 30 Backroads Pragmatists: John Dewey and the Scientific Ethic in Mexico and the
United States
Ruben Flores, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies,
The University of Kansas
Note: This event is cohosted with the History and Education Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University
April 13 Masters Students Thesis Presentations
Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
Location: Horace Mann 332
April 20 Some Notes on the Label “Educationally Disadvantaged”
Roland Reichenbach, Professor of Education, University of ZUrich,
Switzerland
May 4 The Miseducation of the Indebted Student
Jason Wozniak PhD. Candidate, Philosophy and Education Program,
Teachers College, CU
For more information about the Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series, please contact
the Colloquium Coordinator, Megan Laverty, at Laverty@tc.edu
Teachers College, Columbia University | Philosophy and Education program | http://tc.columbia.edu/philosophy
The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (A&HF 5600) is intended for all masters and doctoral students in the program in Philosophy and Education. Others who are interested in attending a session should contact the coordinator, Professor Megan Laverty.
January 26 Chu Hsi’s Ethics of Reading: for the Recovery of Humanistic Pedagogies of Learning
Duck-Joo Kwak, Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National
University, South Korea & Wsiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, CU
February 9 A Quest for Freedom In Colonial limes: Sor Juana lnes de la Cruz on Liberty
Virginia Aspe, Researcher, Philosophy Faculty, Panamericana University, Mexico
February 16 The Dignity of Difference: Toward a Metaphysical Justification of Care for the Other
Eli Vinokur, Teaching Fellow, University of Haifa, Israel and Wsiting
Scholar in the Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
location: Horace Mann 332
February 23 Passion and imagination: Where Poetry, Philosophy and Life Intersect
Edward Mooney, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Philosophy, Syracuse University
Location: Horace Mann 332
March 9 Pedagogy, Knowledge and Possibility in the Experience of the Self
Rosa Hong Chen, Sessional Instructor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
and Visiting Scholar, Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
March 23 Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
Naoko Saito, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education,
Univeristy of Kyoto, Japan
Paul Standish, Professor and Chair of Philosphy Education,
University College London, Institiute of Education, United Kingdom
Location: Horace Mann 332
March 30 Backroads Pragmatists: John Dewey and the Scientific Ethic in Mexico and the
United States
Ruben Flores, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies,
The University of Kansas
Note: This event is cohosted with the History and Education Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University
April 13 Masters Students Thesis Presentations
Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
Location: Horace Mann 332
April 20 Some Notes on the Label “Educationally Disadvantaged”
Roland Reichenbach, Professor of Education, University of ZUrich,
Switzerland
May 4 The Miseducation of the Indebted Student
Jason Wozniak PhD. Candidate, Philosophy and Education Program,
Teachers College, CU
For more information about the Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series, please contact
the Colloquium Coordinator, Megan Laverty, at Laverty@tc.edu
Teachers College, Columbia University | Philosophy and Education program | http://tc.columbia.edu/philosophy
The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (A&HF 5600) is intended for all masters and doctoral students in the program in Philosophy and Education. Others who are interested in attending a session should contact the coordinator, Professor Megan Laverty.
January 26 Chu Hsi’s Ethics of Reading: for the Recovery of Humanistic Pedagogies of Learning
Duck-Joo Kwak, Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National
University, South Korea & Wsiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, CU
February 9 A Quest for Freedom In Colonial limes: Sor Juana lnes de la Cruz on Liberty
Virginia Aspe, Researcher, Philosophy Faculty, Panamericana University, Mexico
February 16 The Dignity of Difference: Toward a Metaphysical Justification of Care for the Other
Eli Vinokur, Teaching Fellow, University of Haifa, Israel and Wsiting
Scholar in the Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
location: Horace Mann 332
February 23 Passion and imagination: Where Poetry, Philosophy and Life Intersect
Edward Mooney, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Philosophy, Syracuse University
Location: Horace Mann 332
March 9 Pedagogy, Knowledge and Possibility in the Experience of the Self
Rosa Hong Chen, Sessional Instructor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
and Visiting Scholar, Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
March 23 Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
Naoko Saito, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education,
Univeristy of Kyoto, Japan
Paul Standish, Professor and Chair of Philosphy Education,
University College London, Institiute of Education, United Kingdom
Location: Horace Mann 332
March 30 Backroads Pragmatists: John Dewey and the Scientific Ethic in Mexico and the
United States
Ruben Flores, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies,
The University of Kansas
Note: This event is cohosted with the History and Education Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University
April 13 Masters Students Thesis Presentations
Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, CU
Location: Horace Mann 332
April 20 Some Notes on the Label “Educationally Disadvantaged”
Roland Reichenbach, Professor of Education, University of ZUrich,
Switzerland
May 4 The Miseducation of the Indebted Student
Jason Wozniak PhD. Candidate, Philosophy and Education Program,
Teachers College, CU
For more information about the Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series, please contact
the Colloquium Coordinator, Megan Laverty, at Laverty@tc.edu
Teachers College, Columbia University | Philosophy and Education program | http://tc.columbia.edu/philosophy
We offer a framework for assessing what the structure of episodic memory might be, if one accepts a Buddhist denial of persisting or even momentary selves. Our paper is a response to Jonardon Ganeri’s “Mental time travel and attention”, and we focus on his exploration of Buddhaghosa’s ideas about memory. In particular, we distinguish between memory perspectives on the past and memory relations that may or may not be successfully borne to the past. We also critically examine 3 ways of trying to cash out what is distinctive about episodic memory: (1) episodic memory as mental time travel, (2) episodic memory as reliving of the past, and (3) episodic memory as reflective attention to the past.
THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
Please save the following dates for our upcoming talks:
Feb. 9: Cat Prueitt (George Mason University)
March 9: Kin Cheung (Moravian College)
April 13: Lara Braitstein (McGill University)
May 11: David Cummiskey (Bates College)
The Pratyabhijñā Śaiva tradition, as first systematized by Utpaladeva (10th century) and elaborated by Abhinavagupta (10th-11th century), follows a number of other classical Indian philosophical traditions in 1) fully acknowledging that Buddhist Vijñānavādins claim to account for the diversity manifest in the conventional world through an appeal to beginningless karmic imprints; and 2) utterly rejecting that this solution avoids circularity. To sum up the Śaiva critique: a Vijñānavādin cannot avoid the question of what causes the diversity of experiences in the conventional world by appealing to beginningless causal processes because these processes themselves require the existence of some kind of real stuff that has the capacity to manifest in diverse forms. These Śaivas hone their argument in relation to a Dharmakīrtian view of ultimate consciousness as utterly beyond causal relations—a view that Dharmakīrti (7th century) uses to brush aside any questions about the real relationship between conventional and ultimate reality as incoherent. These Śaivas argue that the question of how the variegation of a specific moment of awareness arises if no part of this variegation—including the variegation of the causes that produce it—is inherent to what is ultimately real is philosophically salient. Moreover, this question cannot be addressed simply by an appeal to beginningless ignorance. While an appeal to beginningless karmic imprints is perfectly sufficient to account for the differences between various karmic streams within the conventional world, it is not sufficient to account for the mere fact that there is differentiated stuff capable of entering into causal relations. The Pratyabhijñā Śaivas offer a complex and distinctive solution to this problem: while they affirm that ultimate reality is beginningless in the sense that it is beyond time, they also claim that time itself has a “beginning” in the expression of the nondual differentiation inherent to the ultimate itself. They further link the expression of time with the creation of the subject/object pairs that define conventional worlds—and use Dharmakīrti’s own apoha (exclusion) theory of concept formation to explain how this happens.
THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
Welcomes:
Catherine Prueitt (George Mason University)
With a response from:
Andrew Nicholson (Stony Brook University, SUNY)
Please save the following dates for our upcoming talks:
March 30: Kin Cheung (Moravian College)
April 13: Lara Braitstein (McGill University)
May 11: David Cummiskey (Bates College)
The Eastern Study Group of the NAKS invites submissions for its 15th annual meeting to take place at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday, May 4–5, 2018. Our host this year is Professor Patricia Kitcher.
Keynote Speakers:
Stephen Engstrom (Pitt)
Paul Guyer (Brown)
Submissions of detailed abstracts (1,000 words) or papers (no more than 5,000 words, including notes and references) should be prepared for blind review as PDF files. Please include a word count at the end of your abstract or paper. Please supply contact information in a separate file. If you are a graduate student, please indicate this in your contact information.
The selection committee welcomes contributions on all topics of Kantian scholarship (contemporary or historically oriented), including discussions of Kant’s immediate predecessors and successors. Reading time is limited to 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. The best graduate student paper will receive a $200 stipend and be eligible for the Markus Herz Prize. Women, minorities, and graduate students are encouraged to submit.
Papers already read or accepted at other NAKS study groups or meetings may not be submitted. Presenters must be members of NAKS in good standing.
Papers will be posted in the “members only” section of the NAKS website and circulated in advance among participants, who are expected to have read them at the time of the conference.
ENAKS receives support from NAKS and host universities. Earlier programs are available on our website: http://word.emerson.edu/enaks/
For questions about ENAKS or the upcoming meeting, please contact Kate Moran (kmoran@brandeis.edu).
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2018
Time: May 4–5, 2018
Place: Columbia University
Please send all abstracts electronically to Kate Moran, kmoran@brandeis.edu
At the core of Kantian liberalism is a conception of the independent autonomous subject. On the other hand, the most central and distinguishing feature of Buddhist philosophy is the doctrine of no-self. It thus seems that Buddhists should reject Kantian liberalism. My larger project develops the connections between Buddhist perfectionism, liberalism, and principles of justice. In this paper, I focus on Buddhist and Kantian conceptions of self-constitution, but my ultimate concern is the significance of the doctrine of no-self to theories of justice.
Buddhists need some conception of a minimal self to account for the karmic-continuity of persons and also to provide an adequate account of the subjectivity of experience. I argue that we should reject the (Abhidharma) reductionist view of the self as a mere fiction that is reducible to its simpler and more basic parts. As is often noted, the Buddhist reductionist approach is similar to Derek Parfit’s view. Parfit also argues that there is no deep metaphysical self and that relations of personal identity are reducible to relations of psychological connectedness and causal continuity in a series of experiences. Christine Korsgaard has responded to Parfit’s reductionist view by developing a non-metaphysical account of Kantian agency and self-constitution. I argue that the Buddhist doctrine of no-self is consistent with a more minimal, non-substantial, emergent, view of the self. This approach, which is more fully developed by Evan Thomson, Matthew MacKenzie, Georges Dreyfus, and others, is surprisingly similar to Korsgaard’s practical conception of the self. As a result, the non-reductionist Buddhist approach is also not vulnerable to Korsgaard’s objection to reductionist views. In addition, I argue that the process of self-constitution is embedded in a recursive nexus of dependent origination, and reject Korsgaard’s conception of the independent autonomous subject, which she refers to as “over and above” its ends. In short, a Buddhist can accept Korsgaard’s basic account of self-constitution but nonetheless reject the Kantian idea of the independent autonomous subject. For Buddhists, the Kantian autonomous subject is instead part of the “primal confusion” that projects a reified subject-other division on experience. This confusion is the source of existential suffering, anxiety and stress, which characterizes too much of the human condition. The goal is to transcend the Kantian subject and internalize the pervasive interdependence of persons. Instead of the autonomous self, Buddhism embraces a perfectionist ideal, of a non-egocentric reorientation and re-constitution of the self.
Buddhists thus have reason to reject Kantian liberalism, if it is based on the autonomy and independence of persons. In his shift to Political Liberalism, John Rawls recasts the conception of the person, as “a self-originating source of valid claims,” and emphasizes that this conception is restricted to the political domain. It is part of a narrow conception of the “moral powers” of a free and equal citizen; it is not a metaphysical conception or comprehensive ideal. I conclude by exploring the contrast between Buddhist Perfectionism and Political Liberalism.
With a Response From:
Carol Rovane (Columbia University)
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Co-Chairs
Professor Jonathan Gold
Associate Professor, Princeton University, Department of Religion
Professor Hagop Sarkissian
Associate Professor, The City University of New York, Baruch College | Graduate Center, Department of Philosophy
hagop.sarkissian@baruch.cuny.edu
Rapporteur
Jay Ramesh
This essay tries to develop a “black radical Kantianism” – that is, a Kantianism informed by the black experience in modernity. After looking briefly at socialist and feminist appropriations of Kant, I argue that an analogous black radical appropriation should draw on the distinctive social ontology and view of the state associated with the black radical tradition. In ethics, this would mean working with a (color-conscious rather than colorblind) social ontology of white persons and black sub-persons and then asking what respect for oneself and others would require under those circumstances. In political philosophy, it would mean framing the state as a Rassenstaat (a racial state) and then asking what measures of corrective justice would be necessary to bring about the ideal Rechtsstaat.
Response by César Cabezas Gamarra.
Presented by the German Idealism Workshop
Kant and Spinoza on Prophecy, Enlightenment and Revolution
Presented by Columbia University Dept. of Philosophy
Samantha Matherne has written the first recent book in English on the philosophy of Cassirer, covering the full range of his thought. Her research also explores the reciprocal relationship between perception and aesthetics. She approaches these issues largely through a historical lens, as they are taken up by Kant and developed in Post-Kantian traditions in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Phenomenology and Neo-Kantianism.