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NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters FALL 2017 VOLUME 17 | NUMBER 1 ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHIES FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY HISpaNIC/LaTINO ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY LGBTQ ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTERS PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PHILOSOPHY IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 17 | NUMBER 1 FALL 2017 © 2017 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIatION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Existential Eroticism. A Feminist Approach to Philosophies ...................................................... 1 Understanding Women’s Oppression-Perpetuating From the Editors ........................................................ 1 Choices..................................................................... 44 B. K. Matilal: The Past and Future of the Study of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Indian Philosophy ...................................................... 1 Multiplicity, and the Self .......................................... 46 Submission Guidelines and Information ................... 2 A Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other An Exemplary Indian Intellectual: Bimal Krishna Social Identities ....................................................... 48 Matilal ......................................................................... 3 Feminist Experiences Foucauldian and Philosophy, Indian and Western: Some Thoughts Phenomenological Investigations ........................... 52 from Bimal Matilal ...................................................... 7 Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from the Hunger Bimal Krishna Matilal’s Style of Doing Philosophy .. 10 Games to Campus Rape .......................................... 54 Three Dogmas of Matilal: Direct Realism, Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights ....................... 56 Lingophilia, and Dharma Ethics ............................... 11 Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, A Cautionary Note on Matilal’s Way of Doing Indian Justice ...................................................................... 57 Philosophy................................................................ 14 Contributors ............................................................. 60 Whither the Matilal Strategy? .................................. 18 Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy ............ 61 Nyāya Ethical Theory ................................................ 21 From the Editor ........................................................ 61 Bimal Krishna Matilal and the Enduring Significance of the Constructive Engagement Between Submission Guidelines ............................................ 62 Contemporary Analytic and Classical Indian Philosophy................................................................ 28 The Second Annual Latinx Philosophy Conference 62 Expanding Matilal’s Project through First-Person The 2017 Society for Mexican American Philosophy Research................................................................... 29 Conference............................................................... 63 Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 33 What the “Nina” Film Controversy Shows about African Heritage in the Americas ............................. 64 From the Editor ........................................................ 33 Postcolonial Theory: Much Ado about Nothing/ About the Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy . 33 Noting? ..................................................................... 67 Submission Guidelines and Information ................. 33 Latinidad, Multiplicity, and the Time of Identification ............................................................ 70 News from the Committee on the Status of Women ..................................................................... 33 Contributor Bios ....................................................... 74 To Do Metaphysics as a Feminist: Reflections on Indigenous Philosophy ................................... 75 Feminist Methodology in Light of the Hypatia Affair ......................................................................... 34 From the Editor ........................................................ 75 Feminist Interpretations of William James.............. 38 From the Chair ......................................................... 76 Philosophizing About Sex ........................................ 40 A Committee of Change .......................................... 76 Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting It Submission Guidelines ............................................ 79 Right and Practicing Morality with Others ............... 41 Prayer for First Day Teaching American Indian Lit... 79 Table of Contents, continued When Listening Isn’t Enough: Settler Denial and Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Epistemic Injustice ................................................... 80 Race in Early Modern Philosophy .......................... 162 Tips for Teaching Native American Philosophy ....... 83 The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, Syllabus for Philosophy 336 Metaphysics: Native His Evolution in Western Civilization ..................... 163 American Philosophy ............................................... 88 Contributors ........................................................... 165 LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy ........................... 97 Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges .................. 167 From the Editor ........................................................ 97 From the Editor ...................................................... 167 Targeting Trans: The Marriage Equality Backlash ... 98 Blueberry Madness ................................................ 167 Resisting the Inadequate Resistance to House Bill 2 at a Private University in North Carolina ............. 102 Students Who Don’t Give a Damn ......................... 168 Potty Humors: Melancholic and Choleric Presidents, Specifications Grading: A Useful Two-Year College Sclerotic Voters, and the Federal Courts on Title IX Alternative .............................................................. 169 in School Bathrooms .............................................. 110 A Summer Institute for Community College Call for Papers ........................................................ 118 Philosophy Professors ........................................... 170 Philosophy and Computers ........................... 119 Call for Papers ........................................................ 171 From the Editor ...................................................... 119 Teaching Philosophy ..................................... 173 From the Chair ....................................................... 119 From the Editors .................................................... 173 Call for Papers ........................................................ 120 Submission Guidelines .......................................... 174 Semantics as Syntax .............................................. 120 Philosophy and Its History: Six Pedagogical Reflections ............................................................. 174 From Biological to Synthetic Neurorobotics Approaches to Understanding the Structure “Philosophy That Is Ancient”: Teaching Ancient Essential to Consciousness (Part 3) ....................... 129 Philosophy in Context ............................................ 180 Cognitive Engines Contemplating Themselves: A Teaching about the Existence of God ................... 188 Conversation with S. L. Thaler ............................... 140 Considering the Classroom as a Safe Space ......... 189 Philosophy and the Black Experience .......... 153 On Happiness and Goodness ................................ 196 From the Editors .................................................... 153 Letter to the Editors ............................................... 197 Submission Guidelines and Information ............... 154 Books Received ..................................................... 197 2016 Presidential Election: The Capitalist State and the Political Economy of Democracy ..................... 155 Contributors ........................................................... 197 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies ETHAN MILLS AND PRASANTA BANDYOPADHYAY, CO-EDITORS VOLUME 17 | NUMBER 1 | FALL 2017 to honor the life and work of B. K. Matilal by continuing FROM THE EDITORS conversations—both complimentary and critical— concerning his extraordinary influence on the direction of B. K. Matilal: The Past and Future of the the study of Indian philosophy both during his lifetime and in the quarter century since his death. A recent issue of the Study of Indian Philosophy journal Sophia has a similar theme (see volume 55, issue 4), and we direct readers to that issue as well. We hope this Ethan Mills issue of the newsletter will complement the Sophia issue. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA Our first contribution, by Jonardon Ganeri, begins with Prasanta S. Badyopadhyay Matilal’s biography and how this shaped his thought MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY on issues from logic to cross-cultural understanding, all of which made him “an exemplary Indian intellectual.” To readers familiar with the contemporary study of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s contribution explores some of Indian philosophy, B. K. Matilal (1935–1991) needs the deeper cultural issues involved in Matilal’s work and little introduction.
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