NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters SPRING 2020 VOLUME 19 | 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 TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 2 SPRING 2020 © 2020 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian-American Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family ....... 74 Philosophers and Philosophies ........................ 1 Reproductive Justice: An Introduction .................... 76 The Timeliness of Translating Chinese Philosophy: An Introduction to the APA Newsletter Special Issue on Translating Chinese Philosophy ........................... 1 Hispanic/Latino Issues in ................................ 81 Preparing a New Sourcebook in Classical Confucian The Virtues of Mestizaje: Lessons from Las Casas Philosophy.................................................................. 4 on Aztec Human Sacrifce ........................................ 82 The Impossibility of Literal Translation of Chinese Chicano/a Philosophy: Rupturing Gringo Anti- Philosophical Texts into English ................................ 9 Chicano/a Paradigms and Philosophies .................. 88 Translating Today’s Chinese Masters ...................... 11 Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative ................ 97 Three Thoughts on Translating Classical Chinese Philosophical Texts ................................................... 13 Lessons in Exile ........................................................ 98 Introducing Premodern Text Translation: A New Field at the Crossroads of Sinology and Translation Native American and Indigenous Studies ..................................................................... 25 Philosophy ..................................................... 103 Empowering Relations: An Indigenous Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 37 Understanding of Allyship ..................................... 103 The “Daddy Dividend:” The gender Division of Indigenizing Philosophy Through the Land: Labor and Regression Towards Patriarchy .............. 42 A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures ..... 109 Gender, Disability, and the Violent Undercurrents of Parenting Inspiration Porn ................................... 44 Indigenous Philosophy, Locality, and Dance: A Joint Review of Shay Welch, The Phenomenology (Philosophizing about) Gender-Open Children ....... 45 of a Performance Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology, and Brian Burkhart, Taking Children’s Autonomy Seriously as a Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Parent ....................................................................... 50 Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Parenting in Trauma ................................................. 53 Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures ...... 113 On Muddling Through ............................................. 60 The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System Dancing with Native American Parenting, Feminism, and Academic Life: Epistemology ......................................................... 116 My Happy Story ........................................................ 61 Bridging the Divide: Thoughts on Parenting as a Philosophy and the Black Grad Student ............................................................ 64 Experience ..................................................... 119 Anthropologists from Mars ...................................... 66 Joyce Mitchell Cook (1933–2014) ......................... 120 Raised in Philosophy ............................................... 66 Textual Mysticism: Reading the Sublime in Philosophical Mysticism ........................................ 121 Children, Parenting, and the Nature of Work .......... 68 Spectacle Lynching, Sovereignty, and Genocide: Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care A Dialog with Al Frankowski .................................. 124 of Disabled Minds .................................................... 69 Purdue University and President Mitch Daniels: Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Confession of a Rare Creature ............................... 127 Psychological Perspectives ..................................... 71 Table of Contents, continued Philosophy and Computers ........................... 129 Understanding Information Ethics ........................ 175 The Shrinking Diference Between Artifacts and Too Much Information: Questioning Information Natural Objects* .................................................... 129 Ethics ...................................................................... 185 Artifacts and Mind-Independence: Comments on Ethics of Entropy .................................................... 189 Lynne Rudder Baker’s “The Shrinking Diference between Artifacts and natural Objects”................ 132 Taking the Intentional Stance Toward Robot Ethics ...................................................................... 194 Explaining an Explanatory Gap .............................. 134 Measuring a Distance: Humans, Cyborgs, Formulating the Explanatory Gap .......................... 136 Robots .................................................................... 197 Logic as a Theory of Computability ....................... 137 Remediation Revisited: Replies to Gaut, Matravers, and Tavinor ........................................... 202 Robots Need Conscious Perception: A Reply to Aleksander and Haikonen ...................................... 142 My Philosophy in AI: A Very Short Set of Notes Towards my Barwise Prize Acceptance Talk .......... 207 Flawed Workspaces?.............................................. 144 The Association for Philosophy and Computing ... 208 Unity from Multiplicity: A Reply to Haikonen ........ 146 Leibniz, Complexity, and Incompleteness ............ 147 Teaching Philosophy ..................................... 209 Architecture-Based Motivation vs. Reward-Based Devoting a Course to the Exploration of a Book: Motivation .............................................................. 150 Journeying Intellectually with the Students ......... 210 Consciousness, Engineering, and Aristotle, De Anima ................................................ 214 Anthropomorphism ................................................ 154 To Teachers Who Hope to Inspire Their Sleep, Boredom, and Distraction: What Are the Students ................................................................. 216 Computational Benefts for Cognition? ................. 160 To Those Who Think the Unexamined Life Is Not DABUS in a Nutshell ............................................... 163 Worth Living ........................................................... 216 The Real Moral of the Chinese Room: To Cynthia Ozick* ................................................... 216 Understanding Requires Understanding Phenomenology ..................................................... 166 In Praise of Campus Culture Wars ......................... 216 A Refutation of Searle on Bostrom Philosophy Rap ...................................................... 217 (re: Malicious Machines) and Floridi (re: Information) ..................................................... 172 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies BEN HAMMER, GUEST EDITOR VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 2 | SPRING 2020 Since most of us reading this newsletter have at least a FROM THE GUEST EDITOR vague idea of what Western philosophy is, we must understand that to then learn Chinese philosophy is truly The Timeliness of Translating Chinese to reinvent the wheel. It is necessary to start from the most basic notions of what philosophy is to be able to understand Philosophy: An Introduction to the APA what Chinese philosophy is. Newsletter Special Issue on Translating In the West, religion is religion and philosophy is Chinese Philosophy philosophy. In China, this line does not exist. For China and its close East Asian neighbors, Confucianism has guided Ben Hammer the social and spiritual lives of people for thousands of EDITOR, JOURNAL OF CHINESE HUMANITIES years in the same way the Judeo-Christian tradition has [email protected] guided people in the West. It is a feeling we have in our bones that there exists a persistent tradition that connects If there is one theme running through all of the articles me and my people to our past and our future. In this sense in this issue, it is that of timeliness. There is an urgency Confucianism is analogous to religion in the West. And yet in reevaluating how we, the Western audience, approach in Confucianism there is no god to whom we can address Chinese philosophy: how we study it, how we explain it all our ultimate questions. Confucianism has historically to others, and how we translate it. There is more than one been recognized by the government as the ideology that reason this reevaluation is timely. binds people to each other and to the state itself, and yet it has never been institutionalized the way Judeo-Christianity There are cycles in academia. Old projects are revived has: there is no church, no pope.1 Confucianism in China with new data and new perspectives. In the sixteenth has never been recognized as a state religion, and yet for century, toward the end of China’s Ming Dynasty, Catholic more