APA Newsletters Spring 2018 Volume 17, No. 2
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NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters SPRING 2018 VOLUME 17 | NUMBER 2 ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHIES FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTERS PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PHILOSOPHY IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 17 | NUMBER 2 SPRING 2018 © 2018 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and The 2018 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought .... 50 Philosophies ...................................................... 1 Articles ..................................................................... 51 From the Guest Editor ............................................... 1 Surviving Social Disintegration: Jorge Portilla on Ways of Philosophy, Ways of Practice ....................... 1 the Phenomenology of Zozobra .............................. 51 Submission Guidelines and Information ................... 1 Discussion Articles ................................................... 54 “Three Sacrificial Rituals” (sanji) and the The Contradiction of Crimmigration ........................ 54 Practicability of Ruist (Confucian) Philosophy ........... 2 Under the Umbrella of Administrative Law: Traditional Chinese Body Practice and Philosophical Immigration Detention and the Challenges of Activity ........................................................................ 5 Producing Just Immigration Law ............................. 57 East Asian Martial Arts as Philosophical Practice .... 10 Private Contractors, Foreign Troops, and Offshore Detention Centers: The Ethics of Externalizing Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 17 Immigration Controls ............................................... 60 From the Editors ...................................................... 17 “Dreamers” and Others: Immigration Protests, Enforcement, and Civil Disobedience ..................... 63 About the Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 17 Contributor Bios ....................................................... 65 Submission Guidelines and Information ................. 17 Native American and Indigenous News from the Committee on the Status of Philosophy ....................................................... 67 Women ..................................................................... 18 From the Managing Editor ....................................... 67 Articles ..................................................................... 18 Submission Guidelines ........................................... 67 Policing Families: The Many-Headed Hydra of Surveillance .............................................................. 18 Articles ..................................................................... 67 Doubly Other: Black Women’s Social Death and Listening to Our Future: On Pre-College Outreach Re-enslavement in America’s Genocidal Prison and Enrichment for Native Youth ............................. 67 Nation ....................................................................... 27 A Brief History of a New Course at Rutgers On Minor Publications, Thematic Divisions, and University: Philosophy 366—African, Latin American, Biases in Philosophy: Insights from the Book and Native American Philosophy ............................ 70 Review Sections ....................................................... 36 Book Review ............................................................. 75 Book Reviews ........................................................... 40 George Sword’s Warrior Narratives: Compositional The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration 40 Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition .......................... 75 Beyond the Binary: Thinking About Sex and Philosophy and Computers ............................. 85 Gender ..................................................................... 43 From the Editor ........................................................ 85 Women in Later Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age ....................................................... 45 Philosophy in Robotics ............................................ 85 Contributors ............................................................. 47 From the Chair ......................................................... 86 Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy ............ 49 Articles ..................................................................... 87 From the Guest Editors ............................................ 49 On the Autonomy and Threat of “Killer Robots” ..... 87 Submission Guidelines ............................................ 50 New Developments in the LIDA Model ................... 94 Table of Contents, continued Distraction and Prioritization: Combining Models Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges .................. 151 to Create Reactive Robots ....................................... 98 From the Editor ...................................................... 151 Using Quantum Erasers to Test Animal/Robot Consciousness ....................................................... 106 Articles ................................................................... 151 The Explanation of Consciousness with Taylorism, Heidegger, and the Modern Academy Implications to AI ................................................... 112 ................................................................................ 151 Digital Consciousness and Platonic Computation: How Hard Should an Introduction to Philosophy Unification of Consciousness, Mind, and Matter Class Be? ................................................................ 156 by Metacomputics ................................................. 114 Call for Papers ........................................................ 158 Toward a Philosophy of the Internet ..................... 124 Teaching Philosophy ..................................... 161 Organized Complexity: Is Big History a Big Computation? ......................................................... 133 From the Editors .................................................... 161 Call for Papers ........................................................ 138 Submission Guidelines .......................................... 162 Philosophy and the Black Experience .......... 139 Articles ................................................................... 162 From the Editors .................................................... 139 Teaching Affirmative Action ................................... 162 Submission Guidelines and Information ............... 139 The Case for Discussion-Intensive Pedagogy ....... 165 Articles ................................................................... 139 The Hidden Graduate Curriculum .......................... 171 Howard Thurman as Philosopher ........................... 139 Addresses of Contributors ..................................... 172 The Man-Not and the Dilemmas of Intersectionality ..................................................... 144 Book Review ........................................................... 149 The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood .................................................. 149 Contributors ........................................................... 150 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies PRASANTA BANDYOPADHYAY AND JEELOO LIU, CO-EDITORS VOLUME 17 | NUMBER 2 | SPRING 2018 FROM THE GUEST EDITOR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND Ways of Philosophy, Ways of Practice INFORMATION Manyul Im GOAL OF THE NEWSLETTER ON ASIAN AND UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS For this issue of the newsletter, my goal was to enable The APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American wanderings in some lightly beaten paths of philosophical Philosophers and Philosophies is sponsored by the APA exploration, leading the reader through some unusual Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and foliage. The authors here were invited to submit pieces Philosophies to report on the philosophical work of Asian about “practices” of Asian philosophy and encouraged to and Asian-American philosophy, to report on new work in discuss social and physical activities that bear relevance to Asian philosophy, and to provide a forum for the discussion particular traditions of inquiry and that potentially provide of topics of importance to Asian and Asian-American ways of “thinking”—in a broad sense—that are disruptive philosophers and those engaged with Asian and Asian- of the usual ways of imagining philosophy. American philosophy. We encourage a diversity of views and topics within this broad rubric. None of the varied Philosophy as essentially cogitative is a difficult template philosophical views provided by authors of newsletter from which to break. In exploring ways that we might begin articles necessarily represents the views of any or all the to pull away from it, two of the authors, Bin Song and Steven members of the Committee on Asian and Asian-American Geisz, understand the difficulties of reimagining the range Philosophers and Philosophies, including the editor(s) of activities that might count as “doing philosophy.” They of the newsletter. The committee and the newsletter emphasize somewhat different contexts of activity from are committed to advancing Asian and Asian-American each other within which one might explore the possibilities. philosophical scholarships and bringing this work and this Song focuses