NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters FALL 2020 VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 1 ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHIES FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY LGBTQ ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PHILOSOPHY IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 1 FALL 2020 © 2020 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian American Philosophers and The Past, the Present, and the Owl of Minerva ....... 49 Philosophies ...................................................... 1 Ambiguity, Alienation, and Authenticity ................. 50 Editors’ Introduction: What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher of Asian Descent? .................................. 1 My Philosophy Journey to the West ........................ 53 The Rock on My Chest ............................................... 9 Doing Philosophy at the Margin .............................. 55 The Not-So-Lonely Journey of a Japanese American My Journey Across the Pacific ................................. 57 Philosopher .............................................................. 11 The Fluidity of Identity: Moving Toward a Fashioning Oneself as a Philosopher of Asian Philosophy of Race .................................................. 59 Descent .................................................................... 13 “Wogs” and Philosophers ........................................ 62 The Unbearable Lightness of Being an Asian American Philosopher .............................................. 14 The Story of One Male Asian American Philosopher .............................................................. 64 What Does It Mean to Be a Philosopher of Filipina American Descent? .................................................. 16 Fit or Flight: Ethical Decision-Making as a Model Minority .................................................................... 66 What Am I? ............................................................... 18 In Memoriam: Jaegwon Kim (1934–2019) .............. 68 One Life in Philosophy ............................................. 20 Asian Philosophy Blogs ........................................... 69 Philosophy, Liberation, and Other Roads Less Traveled: Being Asian in Philosophy ....................... 22 Submission Guidelines and Information ................. 70 Thinking While Asian ............................................... 24 Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 71 Does He Get Paid? ................................................... 26 Editor’s Introduction ................................................ 71 In Praise of Teachers ................................................ 28 About the Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy ................................................................ 71 Mixed, but not Diluted ............................................. 30 Submission Guidelines and Information ................. 71 Frenemy Philosophy ................................................ 31 Précis to Pornography: A Philosophical Criss-Crossing the Philosophical Borderlines: Introduction .............................................................. 72 What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher of Asian Descent? ................................................................... 33 Is Feminist Pornography Possible? .......................... 78 Making Meaning of Practices in Academic Thoughts on Mikkola: Pornography, Artifacts, and Philosophy................................................................ 35 Pictures..................................................................... 80 A Small Act of Rebellion Toward Philosophy as a Pornography and Melancholy .................................. 84 Gift ............................................................................ 38 Pornography, Social Ontology, and Feminist How I Came to Be a Philosopher ............................. 39 Philosophy................................................................ 88 From Accidental to Integral: My Journey with Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction: Doing Philosophy ..................................................... 42 Response to Commentators .................................... 93 Breathing Living History into Haunted Places ......... 44 Book Review: Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Facing Challenges and Re-Advancing: Toward Resistance ................................................................ 97 Constructive Engagement ....................................... 46 Table of Contents, continued Book Review: When Time Warps: The Lived Submission Guidelines and Information ............... 143 Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence 100 Reconstructing Locality through Marronage ........ 143 Book Review: Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality’s Critique of Women’s Studies and Relations and How Decolonial Allies Acknowledge the Academy .......................................................... 103 Land ....................................................................... 151 Book Review: Decolonizing Universalism: A Preliminary Remarks on the Graduate Transnational Feminist Ethic .................................. 105 Submissions ........................................................... 156 Book Review: Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics The Role of Indigenous Peoples in the and Politics of Claudia Card ................................... 107 Environmentalist Movement: McKibben’s View Analyzed ................................................................. 157 Contributors ........................................................... 109 Indigenous Philosophy on Nature ......................... 160 Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy .......... 111 Indigenous Critiques of Western Conceptions Outgoing Editor’s Farewell .................................... 111 of Nature: Exploring the Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Relation to Climate Change ........... 162 Editor’s Introduction .............................................. 111 Preliminary Remarks on the Undergraduate Call for Submissions .............................................. 112 Submissions and Course Syllabus ......................... 166 Interview with Joseph Carens ............................... 112 Procedural Knowing to Facilitate Healing after Collective Trauma ................................................... 168 Elsa Cecilia Frost: Culture and Nepantla .............. 115 How Reconnecting with the Land May Help Heal Latinx Identity in the United States: A Pragmatist Trauma in Native American Communities ............. 172 Inquiry .................................................................... 120 Philosophy and the Black Experience .......... 179 The Foundations of a Mexican Humanism in Emilio Uranga’s Análisis del Ser del Mexicano ................. 123 From the Editors .................................................... 179 Book Review: Socially Undocumented: Identity and Submission Guidelines and Information ............... 180 Immigration Justice ............................................... 128 Cornelius Golightly (1917–1976) ........................... 180 Author Bios ............................................................. 130 Shred of Truth: Antinomy and Synecdoche in the LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy ......................... 131 Work of Ta-Nehisi Coates ....................................... 182 From the Editor ...................................................... 131 Not the Sound of the Genuine! A Review of Kipton Jensen’s Howard Thurman ..................................... 205 Trans Philosophy: The Early Years: An Interview with Talia Mae Bettcher, Loren Cannon, Miqqi Alicia Ontology, Experience, and Social Death: On Frank Gilbert, and C. Jacob Hale ..................................... 131 Wilderson’s Afropessimism .................................... 209 Call for Papers ........................................................ 140 Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges .................. 217 Native American and Indigenous From the Editors .................................................... 217 Philosophy ..................................................... 141 Model, Scaffold, Inspire: Principles for Bringing From the Managing Editor ..................................... 141 Philosophy Online .................................................. 218 From the Outgoing Chair ....................................... 142 Call for Papers ........................................................ 221 From the Incoming Chair ....................................... 143 Statement of Solidarity .......................................... 143 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies A. MINH NGUYEN, EDITOR VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 1 | FALL 2020 Geographically and ethnoculturally, our contributors’ or FROM THE EDITORS their parents’ countries of origin span the majority of the Asian continent, stretching from South Asia (India, Nepal, Editors’ Introduction: What Is It Like to Pakistan) across East Asia (China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan) to Southeast Asia (Malaysia, the Philippines, Be a Philosopher of Asian Descent? Vietnam). Their work covers topics from justice in Aristotle’s moral and political philosophy to Zhuangzi as a skeptic and A. Minh Nguyen, Editor a fictionalist, from the philosophy of theBhagavad Gita and FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY the Buddhism-deconstruction encounter to virtue