NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters FALL 2019 VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 1 ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHIES FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY LGBTQ ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTERS VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 1 FALL 2019 © 2019 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian-American What Is Rape? Social Theory and Conceptual Philosophers and Philosophies ........................ 1 Analysis .................................................................... 78 Buddhist Philosophy Today: Theories and Forms ..... 1 Debating Pornography ............................................. 80 Philosophy, Quo Vadis? Buddhism and the Academic Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability ...... 84 Study of Philosophy ................................................... 3 Hispanic/Latino Issues in ................................ 90 What/Who Determines the Value of Buddhist Philosophy in Modern Academia? ............................. 8 Latinx Philosophy Conference ................................ 91 Buddhist Philosophy? Arguments from Dying in Detention as an Example of Oppression .. 91 Somewhere .............................................................. 11 A Negative Path Towards Anti-Racist Immigration Doing Buddhist Philosophy ..................................... 15 Policy ........................................................................ 97 Decolonizing the Buddhist Mind ............................. 22 Immigration and International Justice .................. 102 Reflecting on Buddhist Philosophy with Are Our Racial Concepts Necessarily Pierre Hadot ............................................................. 26 Essentialist Due to Our Cognitive Nature? ............ 108 Some Suggestions for Future Directions Epistemic Humility Now! ........................................ 113 of the Study of Buddhist Philosophy ....................... 28 Approaching Racial Embodiment, Aesthetics, Practicing Buddhist Philosophy as Philosophy ....... 31 and Liberation in José Carlos Mariátegui’s Seven Essays .......................................................... 118 Emptiness, Multiverses, and the Conception of a Multi-Entry Philosophy ...................................... 34 América Tropical, On the Force of Latino/a/x Thought .................................................................. 123 Buddhist Philosophy and the Neuroscientific Study of Meditation: Critical Reflections ................. 36 The Marxism of José Revueltas: A Struggle Against Orthodoxy ................................................. 127 Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 41 Thinking about Exile: Community, Violence, #MeToo and Philosophy .......................................... 41 and Law .................................................................. 132 Good Survivor, Bad Survivor: #MeToo and the Book Excerpt: Marx on Bolívar ............................... 137 Moralization of Survivorship .................................... 45 Rape and Resistance ............................................. 138 Beyond Silence, Towards Refusal: The Epistemic Possibilities of #MeToo ............................................ 52 LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy ......................... 142 The Speech Acts of #MeToo .................................... 56 Assumptive Care and Futurebound Care in Trans Literature ...................................................... 143 #MeToo? ................................................................... 60 Participation in Sport Is a Human Right, Even #MeToo vs. Mea Culpa: On the Risks of Public for Trans Women .................................................... 151 Apologies ................................................................. 64 Conceiving Differently within the Ethics of Women, Work, and Power: Envisaging the Radical Assisted Reproduction .......................................... 155 Potential of #MeToo ................................................. 69 Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Field Notes on Conference Climate: A Decade with Phenomenology of Transphobia ........................... 158 the Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus ...................................................................... 76 Table of Contents, continued Philosophy and the Black Experience .......... 162 Charles Leander Hill (1906–1956) .......................... 162 Freedom Gaze: Explicating the African Freedom Aesthetic ................................................................ 164 Philosophy and Computers ........................... 169 How Many Thoughts Can Fit in the Form of a Proposition? .......................................................... 172 Consciousness, Engineering, and Anthropomorphism ................................................ 180 Should Physical Computation Be Understood Mechanistically? ..................................................... 186 Commentary on Gualtiero Piccinini’s Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Perspective ............. 189 Defending the Mapping Account of Physical Computation .......................................................... 192 Comments on Gualtiero Piccinini, Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account .................... 193 The Mechanistic Account of Physical Computation: Some Clarifications ......................... 195 Philosophical Insights from Computational Studies: Why Should Computational Thinking Matter to Philosophers? ......................................... 200 From the Editor ...................................................... 207 DABUS in a Nutshell ............................................... 208 Five Sessions Organized by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers for the 2020 APA Divisional Meetings ............................................... 211 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies RAFAL STEPIEN, GUEST EDITOR VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 1 | FALL 2019 the practice of Buddhist philosophy worldwide. On the FROM THE GUEST EDITOR other hand, those contributions whose authors took a more evaluative or prescriptive approach likewise taken together Buddhist Philosophy Today: Theories and comprise a well-rounded collection of articles, in this case one theorizing contemporary Buddhist philosophical Forms scholarship and the future directions it may take. Rafal Stepien In preparing the collection as a whole, I was particularly NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE resolute that contributions cover a greater geographical span than that encompassed by the major centers in This is the second of two special issues of the newsletter Europe and North America. For the foregoing survey dedicated to Buddhist philosophy.1 My initial intention as of “Buddhist Philosophy Worldwide,” my insistence on guest editor was to prepare a single issue of the newsletter a broad geographical coverage was motivated on the on the topic “Buddhist Philosophy Worldwide: Perspectives one hand by a methodological impetus to ensure as and Programs.” The idea was to include descriptive and comprehensive as possible a spectrum of perspectives prescriptive/evaluative elements: On the one hand, scholars be included, and on the other hand by the conviction that working on Buddhist philosophy throughout the world were Buddhist philosophy, being a strikingly multi- and trans- invited to provide a descriptive snapshot of the state of the cultural phenomenon itself, could and should be studied, field in their geographical/disciplinary area; on the other, carried out, and put into practice most fruitfully from the they could proffer an evaluative appraisal of how Buddhist widest possible range of vantage points. As such, I actively philosophy has been carried out and/or a prescriptive sought out contributors from a variety of countries in Asia, program of how they feel it should be carried out. This where Buddhist philosophy has, of course, the longest of dual remit played out in a foreseeable manner, such that intellectual pedigrees, as well as Australasia, Africa, South some authors composed largely descriptive pieces, while America, and the Middle East in addition to Europe and others took a more methodologically oriented approach in North America. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate any which they outline a vision of what the practice of Buddhist scholars based anywhere in Africa, South America, or the philosophy could or should entail, and/or how it can or Middle East outside of Israel willing to take part. could contribute to the practice of academic philosophy per se. Interestingly, it so happens that in almost all cases scholars working in European and North American universities Eventually, for both practical and programmatic reasons, where the field’s center of gravity lies chose to concentrate the decision was taken to unweave these strands into on theoretical elaborations of Buddhist philosophical two separate newsletter issues, with the previous spring practice; their contributions thus appear in the present 2019 issue remaining devoted to “Buddhist Philosophy issue. Of course, the relatively limited geographical span Worldwide: Perspectives and Programs,” and the current within which the contributors gathered here work (if a span fall 2019 one on “Buddhist Philosophy Today: Theories and including Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Austria, France, Forms.” Practically, the total length of the articles submitted Iceland, the United Kingdom,