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NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters SPRING 2021 VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 2 ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHIES FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 2 SPRING 2021 © 2021 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Ethical Narratives and Oppositional Philosophies ...................................................... 1 Consciousness ......................................................... 67 Editors’ Introduction: Buddhist Modernism and Its What It’s Like to Grow Up Poor, but Fall in Love Discontents ................................................................ 1 with Philosophy: A Notice to the Profession in Case It Forgot ........................................................... 71 Articles ....................................................................... 5 Knowing What to Order at the Conference Précis of Why I Am Not a Buddhist ............................ 5 Dinner ....................................................................... 75 On Pursuing the Dialogue Between Buddhism and Epistemic Shame as a First-Generation Scholar ..... 77 Science in Ways That Distort Neither ........................ 8 Marginal Disclosures: Sisterhood, Standpoint, On Being a Good Friend to Buddhist Philosophy ... 15 Community, and Thriving......................................... 80 Buddhism after Buddhist Modernism: Comments Confessions of a Working-Class Student ................ 84 on Evan Thompson’s Why I Am Not a Buddhist ...... 18 Abolition University: Mobilizing Black Feminist Throwing Out the Buddha with the Offering Water: Philosophy to Transform Institutions of Higher Comments on Evan Thompson’s Why I Am Not a Education into “Vehicles of Decarceration” that Buddhist ................................................................... 21 Affirm the Lives of First-Generation Students ......... 87 Free to Be You and Me: Cosmopolitanism, Supporting First-Generation Philosophers at Every Pluralism, and Buddhist Modernism ....................... 26 Level ......................................................................... 94 Some Questions for Friends of Buddhism .............. 29 Book Reviews ........................................................... 99 Thompson Is Not a Buddhist, But What about the Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice .... 99 Rest of Us? ............................................................... 32 Feminist Trouble: Intersectional Politics in Post- Deconstructing Buddhist Modernism Without Secular Times ......................................................... 102 Postmodern Orientalism? ........................................ 34 Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women ........... 104 Buddhist Modernism: Let’s Be Suspicious But Not Because It Lacks Faith ............................................. 38 Irigaray and Politics: A Critical Introduction ........... 106 Replies to Critics ...................................................... 41 Contributors ........................................................... 108 Submission Guidelines and Information ................. 55 Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy .......... 111 Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 57 From the Editor ...................................................... 111 Guest Editors’ Introduction: Outsiders Within: Call for Submissions .............................................. 111 Reflections on Being a First-Generation and/or Low-Income Philosopher ......................................... 57 Articles ................................................................... 112 About The Newsletter on Feminism and Which Secular Grounds? The Atheism of Philosophy ................................................................ 62 Liberation Philosophy ............................................ 112 Submission Guidelines and Information ................. 63 Radical Pluralism and the Hispanic Identity .......... 115 Essays ....................................................................... 63 Shifting the Geography of Revolution: Mestizo Nationalism, Pan-Arab Independence, and Feminist Flourishing in the Academy: Complicity and Philosophy through the Writings of Vera Yamuni Compromise ............................................................. 63 Tabush .................................................................... 119 Table of Contents, continued Gloria Anzaldúa, Hybrid History, and American Teaching Philosophy ..................................... 173 Philosophy.............................................................. 124 From the Editors .................................................... 173 Author Bios ............................................................. 129 Submission Guidelines .......................................... 174 Native American and Indigenous Philosophy ..................................................... 131 Articles ................................................................... 174 From the Managing Editor ..................................... 131 Teaching Some Philosophical Problems through Computer Science ................................................. 174 Submission Guidelines and Information ............... 131 Schematics for the Syllogism: An Alternative to Articles ................................................................... 131 Venn ....................................................................... 181 Cultural Infusion in the Pandemic: Creek Poems on Teaching During the Pandemic ............ 185 Symbology ............................................................. 131 The Prof Selects Her Social Distancing .................. 185 The Roles of Land and Stories in Relational Pedagogy for Indigenous Resurgence ................. 132 The Joy of Zoom Teaching ..................................... 185 Course Syllabus ..................................................... 139 Addresses of Contributors ..................................... 186 PHL 156: Introduction to Indigenous Philosophy: Native American Resistance Movements .............. 139 Philosophy and the Black Experience .......... 151 From the Editor ...................................................... 151 Submission Guidelines and Information ............... 151 Footnotes to History .............................................. 151 Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) ................................. 151 Article ..................................................................... 152 COVID-19, Capitalism, and Death: How and Why Black Lives Matter .................................................. 152 Book Reviews ......................................................... 165 A Welcome Leftward Turn to Marxism: Ferguson on the Philosophy of African American Studies ......... 165 The Disposable Man—Grotesque White Fantasies of Black Male Death in George Yancy’s Backlash ...... 167 Author Bios ............................................................. 172 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies A. MINH NGUYEN, EDITOR VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 2 | SPRING 2021 commitments, “destabilize” (180, 184) them, and eventually FROM THE EDITORS repudiate them. Editors’ Introduction: Buddhist The two key terms in Thompson’s argument are “Buddhist modernism” (1, 172) and “cosmopolitanism” (165–89). Modernism and Its Discontents That is where much of the cut and thrust occurs between Thompson and his interlocutors in this issue. We will set out A. Minh Nguyen, Editor briefly how Thompson conceives of these two fundamental FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY concepts and then move to the arguments made by the [email protected] other contributors to the issue. Yarran Hominh, Associate Editor II. BUDDHIST MODERNISM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Thompson uses the term “Buddhist modernism” in much [email protected] the same way as David L. McMahan does in The Making of Buddhist Modernism, which is to pick out an interrelated set of tendencies and themes in contemporary (largely) I. OVERVIEW Euro-American Buddhist thought.4 The term is not Evan Thompson’s new book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist, is intended as a definition or to specify a set of necessary a provocative, insightful, and challenging critique of what or sufficient conditions for an entity (whether a person, he calls “Buddhist modernism” (1), a broad religious, community, tradition, culture, movement, concept, cultural, and intellectual movement that he regards as conception, viewpoint, theory, argument, commitment, “the dominant strand of modern Buddhism” (1).1 Like practice, discourse, rhetoric, or apologetics) to be a Bertrand Russell’s “Why I Am Not a Christian” and similarly Buddhist modernist one. Rather, it is meant to highlight named texts like Kancha Ilaiah’s Why I Am Not a Hindu,2 some common and recognizable ideas from a complex and Thompson’s Why I Am Not a Buddhist is, among other diverse tradition arising from the collision of modernism things, a critique of the place of the Buddhist modernist in its broadest and most pluralist sense and the varied movement in our world, especially Europe and North histories of different Buddhist traditions.5 As Thompson America, today. Unlike those texts, however, Thompson’s makes clear in his “Replies to Critics,” especially his target is not Buddhism in its entirety. Nor is his critique response to Abraham Velez de Cea,