THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTERS ON AMERICAN INDIANS IN PHILOSOPHY ASIAN & ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS & PHILOSOPHIES PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTERS FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PHILOSOPHY AND LAW LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER ISSUES PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE TEACHING PHILOSOPHY Volume 04, Number 1 Fall 2004 NEWSLETTER ON ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHIES ARTICLE Multiplicity within Identity: Asian American Cultural Experiences in the Plural, Janet Farrell Smith NEWSLETTER ON AMERICAN INDIANS IN PHILOSOPHY ARTICLES Global Indigenous Research Contexts for Bio-Prospecting: Sacred Collisions of Ethnobotany, Diversity Genetics, Intellectual Property Law, Sovereign Rights, and Public Interest Pharmaceuticals, Anne Waters Code Talkers: Who We Are, Marilyn Notah Verney Native Intelligence: The Jewish Bible and the Appropriation of Another’s Religion, Jack D. Forbes Native Intelligence Religionism: The Moral Equivalent of Racism, Jack D. Forbes BOOK REVIEWS American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays, Reviewed by Jerome A. Stone Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest and Oppression in the Western World, Reviewed by Richard Simonelli ANNOUNCEMENTS NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE FROM THE EDITORS, John McClendon & George Yancy ARTICLES The African American Philosopher and Academic Philosophy: On the Problem of Historical Interpretation, John H. McClendon, III W.E.B. Du Bois on Whiteness and the Pathology of Black Double Consciousness, George Yancy BOOK REVIEW What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, Reviewed by Audrey Thompson CONTRIBUTORS — APA Newsletter, Fall 2004, Volume 04, Number 1 — NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTERS PROFILE A Conversation with Susan Stuart, Bill Uzgalis ECAP REVIEWS Review of the European Conference for Computing and Philosophy, 2004, Susan Stuart Review of the European Conference for Computing and Philosophy, 2004, Marcello Guarini PROGRAM Computing and Philosophy, University of Pavia, Italy 2004 ARTICLE Getting Outside of the Margins, Jon Dorbolo NEWSLETTER ON FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY FROM THE EDITOR, Sally J. Scholz NEWS FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN, Rosie Tong ARTICLES Philosophical Women of Early Modern Iberia, Joan Gibson Public Philosophy and Feminist Gain in South America, Amy Oliver Chicana Feminisms and Lived Theory, Jane Duran REVIEW ESSAY Anzaldúa and the ‘Bridge’ as Home: Healing the Ruptures of Reason: This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions For Transformation, Reviewed by Viki Soady REVIEWS Worlds of Knowing: Global Feminist Epistemologies, Reviewed by Catherine Hundleby The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency, Reviewed by Lucinda Peach CONTRIBUTORS ANNOUNCEMENTS NEWSLETTER ON HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE CHAIR, Susana Nuccetelli ARTICLES Cultural Diversity and Grammatical Tolerance: Wittgenstein on Seeing Aspects and Latin American Thinking, Victor J. Krebs Wittgenstein and the Hispanic Family, José Medina Wittgenstein in Latin America, Carlos Pereda The Material and the Formal Elements of Rationality in Dussel’s Ética de la liberación, Mario Sáenz NEWSLETTER ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FROM THE EDITOR, Omar Dahbour FROM THE NEW CHAIR, Ernie Lepore FROM THE PAST CHAIR, Alan M. Olson SPECIAL SECTION: CAN REASON BE A BASIS FOR DIALOGUE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Can Reason be a Dialogical Bridge for Peace in the Middle East?, Mourad Wahba The Limit of Reason (or Why Dignity Is Not Negotiable), Sari Nusseibeh Generalization and Consistency: Keys to Mutual Recognition, Ovadia Ezra Reasonable (and Unreasonable) Goals and Strategies, and the Hope for Peace in the Middle East, Ruth Manor — ii — — Table of Contents — The Light of Reason and the Right of Return, Mohammad Ali Khalidi Reason vs. Rhetoric – Who Is To Be Master?, Anat Biletzki Reason and Peace in the Middle East, Mona Abousenna SUMMARY OF A C.I.C.-COSPONSORED CONFERENCE, Bo Mou INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PHILOSOPHICAL ENGAGEMENT: DAVIDSON’S PHILOSOPHY AND CHINESE PHILOSOPHY NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND LAW FROM THE EDITOR, Theodore Benditt ARTICLES Constitutional Interpretation and Originalism, Judith Wagner DeCew Institutional Racism and Equal Protection, John Arthur Nationalist and Internationalist Conceptions of Constitutional Interpretation: Human Rights and Capital Punishment, Andrew Altman Compromising Rights: How Does A Constitution Mean?, Judith A. Baer RECENT ARTICLES OF INTEREST RECENT BOOKS OF INTEREST NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER ISSUES FROM THE EDITOR, Carol Quinn FROM THE OUTGOING CHAIR, Mark Chekola FEATURED ESSAY Review of Virtuous Liaisons: Care, Love, Sex and Virtue Ethics, Andy Wible ARTICLES Equality, Civil Unions, Gay Marriage: Some Thoughts on Heterosexual Supremacy, Richard D. Mohr Gay Marriage and Bisexuality, Kayley Vernallis The Institution of Marriage, Nancy Williams “Same-Sex”: Oppression at the Speed of Light, Jason Matherly Parable of America, Dr. Samuel Bolivar George, III Brief Refutations of Some Common Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage, Benjamin A. Gorman NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE FROM THE EDITORS, Rosamond Rhodes and Mark Sheldon FROM THE CHAIR Philosophical Reflection and the President’s Council on Bioethics, David DeGrazia OBITUARIES John Fletcher, In Memorial, Franklin G. Miller James Rachels, In Memorial, Gregory Pence ARTICLES Vulnerable Research Subjects, Robert E. Goodin Vulnerability in Research Subjects, Kenneth Kipnis Reflections on Kipnis’s Concept of Medical Vulnerability, Dorothy E. Vawter and Karen G. Gervais Presidents and their Right to Privacy, Timothy F. Murphy Race/Ethnicity, Health Disparities, and Bioethics, John R. Stone A Call for Gender: Equity in Medical Tort Reform, Jennifer A. Parks — iii — — APA Newsletter, Fall 2004, Volume 04, Number 1 — NEWSLETTER ON TEACHING PHILOSOPHY FROM THE EDITORS, Tziporah Kasachkoff & Eugene Kelly ARTICLES Integrating Modern Arab Thought in Postcolonial Philosophies of Culture, Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab The Play’s the Thing, Josef Velazquez A Lack of Sympathetic Understanding in the Classroom: Remarks from a Graduate Student Instructor, Lee A. McBride III ON THE PROFESSION Announcement of Woodrow Wilson Practicum Grants REVIEW Review of G. 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