APA Newsletter on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Springl 2019)
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NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters SPRING 2019 VOLUME 18 | 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 PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTERS PHILOSOPHY IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 18 | NUMBER 2 SPRING 2019 © 2019 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Men’s Intrusion, Women’s Embodiment. A Critical Philosophies ...................................................... 1 Analysis of Street Harassment ................................. 77 Buddhist Philosophy Worldwide: Perspectives and The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Programs .................................................................... 1 Wollstonecraft .......................................................... 80 Buddhist Philosophy in Australian Universities ......... 3 Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy ............ 85 Buddhist Philosophy, and Eastern Philosophy in Letting Go of Mestizaje: Settler Colonialism and General, in Israel and Palestine ................................ 8 Latin American/Latinx Philosophy ........................... 88 Buddhist Philosophy in the Kathmandu Valley ....... 13 Canonical Philosophy, Mexican Philosophy ............ 92 Buddhist Philosophy in Poland: Legacy and Afra X and the Subjectivity of Taking Care Prospects ................................................................. 19 of Objects................................................................. 97 Study of Buddhist Philosophy in Sri Lanka .............. 21 Native American and Indigenous Philosophy ..................................................... 101 Buddhist Philosophy in Two Japanese Cross- Philosophical Approaches ....................................... 24 Walk On, Dear Sister, Walk On ............................... 102 Sanskrit-based Buddhist Philosophy in China Countering Epistemic Guardianship with Epistemic Today ........................................................................ 27 Sovereignty through the Land ............................... 102 Teaching Buddhism as Philosophy .......................... 29 The Role of Hardship in Mexica Ethics: Or, Why Being Good Has to Hurt ......................................... 108 Preserving the Four Noble Truths at the Heart of Buddhist Pedagogy .................................................. 29 Philosophy and the Black Experience .......... 119 Sailing against the Current: The Buddha, Buddhism, Wayman B. McLaughlin (1927–2003) .................... 120 and Methodology .................................................... 36 An Anatomy of ESP (Economic, Social, and Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 43 Political) Oppression .............................................. 121 White Women Misogynists ...................................... 46 Another World Is Possible: A Marxist Philosophy of Revolution .......................................................... 126 What Do Men Find Threatening about Women’s Empowerment? ........................................................ 49 The Wages of Sin Is Death: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Rhetorics of Black Manhood and the Contemporary Masculine Foes, Feminist Woes: A Response to Discourse on Black Male Death ............................. 134 Down Girl ................................................................. 52 Between Africa and America: Alexander Crummell’s Misogyny and Humanism ........................................ 56 Moral and Political Philosophy .............................. 141 Misogyny and Dehumanization ............................... 60 Contributors ........................................................... 148 Autism, Himpathy, and Down Girl: The Logic of Philosophy and Computers ........................... 149 Misogyny .................................................................. 64 Turing’s Mystery Machine ...................................... 149 Response to Critics .................................................. 67 Systems with “Subjective Feelings”: The Logic of Rape and Resistance ............................................... 72 Conscious Machines .............................................. 154 Blackwell’s A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir .. 73 Conscious Machine Perception ............................. 158 Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Transhumanism: The Best Minds of Our Generation Difference ................................................................ 75 are Needed for Shaping Our Future ...................... 163 Table of Contents, continued Note from the Chair ............................................... 175 Note from the Editor .............................................. 175 A New Direction in Supporting Scholarship on Philosophy and Computers: The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique .......................................... 176 Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges .................. 179 One Semester In .................................................... 179 Teaching the Students We Have So They Become the Learners They Need to Be: Metacognition in Philosophy at Two-Year Colleges ........................... 181 Teaching a No-Cost Class ...................................... 184 Some Advice for Graduate Students Considering the Community College ............................................... 187 Teaching Philosophy ..................................... 189 Kant Was a Racist: Now What? .............................. 190 Teaching and Testing ............................................. 197 An “A” for Effort? .................................................... 199 Physics Envy? ......................................................... 199 A Plea for Critical Thinking* ................................... 200 Calling All Zingers! ................................................. 200 Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching ................................................................. 200 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies PRASANTA BANDYOPADHYAY, EDITOR VOLUME 18 | NUMBER 2 | SPRING 2019 constitute a solid bloc of scholarship on the practice of FROM THE GUEST EDITOR Buddhist philosophy worldwide. On the other hand, those contributions whose authors took a more evaluative or Buddhist Philosophy Worldwide: prescriptive approach likewise taken together comprise a well-rounded collection of articles, in this case one theorizing Perspectives and Programs contemporary Buddhist philosophical scholarship. Rafal Stepien In preparing the collection as a whole, I was particularly HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY resolute that contributions cover a greater geographical span than that encompassed by the major centers in This is the first of two special issues of the newsletter Europe and North America. Interestingly, it so happens that dedicated to Buddhist philosophy. My initial intention as in all but two cases scholars working in European and North guest editor was to prepare a single issue of the newsletter American universities where the field’s center of gravity on the topic “Buddhist Philosophy Worldwide: Perspectives lies chose to concentrate on theoretical elaborations of and Programs.” The idea was to include descriptive and Buddhist philosophical practice; their contributions thus prescriptive/evaluative elements: On the one hand, scholars appear in the following issue. For the present survey working on Buddhist philosophy throughout the world were of “Buddhist Philosophy Worldwide,” my insistence on invited to provide a descriptive snapshot of the state of the a broad geographical coverage was motivated on the field in their geographical/disciplinary area; on the other, one hand by a methodological impetus to ensure as they could proffer an evaluative appraisal of how Buddhist comprehensive as possible a spectrum of perspectives philosophy has been carried out and/or a prescriptive be included, and on the other hand by the conviction that program of how they feel it should be carried out. This Buddhist philosophy, being a strikingly multi- and trans- dual remit played out in a foreseeable manner, such that cultural phenomenon itself, could and should be studied, some authors composed largely descriptive pieces, while carried out, and put into practice most fruitfully from the others took a more methodologically oriented approach in widest possible range of vantage points. As such, I actively which they outline a vision of what the practice of Buddhist sought out contributors from a variety of countries in Asia, philosophy could or should entail, and/or how it can or where Buddhist philosophy has of course the longest of could contribute to the practice of academic philosophy intellectual pedigrees, as well as Australasia, Africa, South per se. America, and the Middle East in addition to Europe and North America. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate any Eventually, for both practical and programmatic reasons, scholars based anywhere in Africa, South America, or the the decision was taken to unweave these strands into Middle East outside of Israel willing to take part. two separate newsletter issues, with the current spring 2019 issue remaining devoted to “Buddhist Philosophy Nevertheless, the present volume includes what I believe Worldwide: Perspectives and Programs,” and the ensuing is a hitherto unparalleled collection of texts detailing and fall 2019 one to