NEWSLETTERS | The American Philosophical Association APA Newsletters FALL 2018 VOLUME 18 | 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 COMPUTERS PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PHILOSOPHY IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 18 | NUMBER 1 FALL 2018 © 2018 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 Table of Contents Asian and Asian-American For an Impure, Antiauthoritarian Ethics ................... 52 Philosophy and Philosophers ........................... 1 Response to Critics .................................................. 56 From the Editor .......................................................... 1 Book Reviews ........................................................... 57 Submission Guidelines and Information ................... 2 The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Childbirth: Buddhism ................................................................... 3 Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing ................ 57 Locating Early Buddhist Logic in Pāli Literature ........ 3 Foucault’s Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason...................................................................... 59 Do Good Philosophers Argue? A Buddhist Approach to Philosophy and Philosophy Prizes ...... 13 Connected by Commitment: Oppression and Our Responsibility to Undermine It ............................... 62 Ontology, Logic, and Epistemology ........................ 15 Contributors ............................................................. 64 Īśvaravāda: A Critique .............................................. 15 Hispanic/Latino Issues ................................... 65 Cārvākism Redivivus ................................................ 26 From the Editor ........................................................ 65 Some Critical Remarks on Kisor Chakrabarti’s Idea of “Observational Credibility” and Its Role Call for Submissions ................................................ 65 in Solving the Problem of Induction ........................ 31 On the Difficulties of Writing Philosophy from a Some Thoughts on the Problem of Induction ......... 35 Racialized Subjectivity ............................................. 66 Philosophy of Language and Grammar .................. 38 Chicanx Existentialism as Liberation Philosophy .... 70 Remnants of Words in Indian Grammar .................. 38 The Political Relevance of Kierkegaardian Humor in Jorge Portilla’s Fenomenología del relajo .............. 76 Report on an APA Panel: “Diversity in Philosophy” . 42 Conference Report ................................................... 80 Book Review ............................................................. 43 Report on the Third Latinx Philosophy Conference at Minds without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Rutgers University ................................................... 80 Renaissance ............................................................. 43 UCSD PHIL 155: Mexican Philosophy ....................... 82 Feminism and Philosophy ............................... 45 Author Biographies ................................................. 83 From the Editor ........................................................ 45 LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy ........................... 84 About the Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy ................................................................ 45 From the Editor ........................................................ 84 Submission Guidelines and Information ................. 45 Review of Shotwell’s Against Purity: “Interacting in Compromised Times” .......................................... 85 News from the Committee on the Status of Women ................................................................. 46 Embodied Thresholds of Sanctuary: Abolitionism and Trans Worldmaking ........................................... 86 Introduction to Cluster on Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times ........ 46 Puzzle Pieces: Shapes of Trans Curiosity ................. 93 Non-Ideal Theory and Gender Voluntarism in Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Phenomenological Against Purity ........................................................... 46 Forays in Trans Life .................................................. 99 Impure Prefiguration: Comments on Alexis Call for Papers ........................................................ 104 Shotwell’s Against Purity .......................................... 49 Contributor Bios ..................................................... 104 Table of Contents, continued Native American and Indigenous Teaching Philosophy Online .................................. 186 Philosophy ..................................................... 105 Synchronous Online Philosophy Courses: An From the Managing Editor ..................................... 105 Experiment in Progress .......................................... 186 Submission Guidelines .......................................... 106 The Paradox of Online Learning ............................ 189 From the Committee Chair .................................... 106 Sustaining Success in an Increasingly Competitive Online Landscape ............................. 190 Túkmal Tóonavqal // Weaving Baskets .................. 107 Call for Papers ........................................................ 193 Sacred Truths, Fables, and Falsehoods: Intersections between Feminist and Native Philosophy and Medicine.............................. 195 American Logics .................................................... 108 From the Editors .................................................... 195 On What There “Is”: Aristotle and the Aztecs on Being and Existence .............................................. 115 Submission Guidelines .......................................... 195 Dance as Native Performative Knowledge ............ 127 Comments on Rivka Weinberg, The Risk of a Lifetime .................................................................. 195 Epistemic Injustice and the Struggle for Recognition of Afro-Mexicans: A Model for Contraception and Religious Freedom: A Native Americans? ................................................. 139 Philosophical Analysis of Zubik v. Burwell ............ 201 Book Review ........................................................... 147 Medical Ethics and Harvesting Non-Vital Human Organs from Healthy Donors ................................. 204 Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America ........... 147 Philosophical Difficulties of Mind Uploading as a Medical Technology ............................................ 208 Philosophy and Computers ........................... 150 Book Review ........................................................... 214 Mission Statement of the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers: Opening of a Short A Review of Michael Boylan’s Teaching Ethics with Conversation .......................................................... 150 Three Philosophical Novels .................................... 214 From the Editor ...................................................... 151 Poem ...................................................................... 215 From the Chair ....................................................... 152 The Fat Ladies Sing ................................................ 215 Machine Intentions ................................................ 152 Philosophy and the Black Experience .......... 216 Logic and Consciousness ...................................... 159 From the Editors .................................................... 216 Consciousness as Process: A New Logical Submission Guidelines and Information ............... 217 Perspective ............................................................. 159 Footnotes to History Charles A. Frye A Counterexample to the Church-Turing Thesis as (1946–1994) ........................................................... 218 Standardly Interpreted ........................................... 173 Reading Alfred Frankowski’s The Post-Racial Rapaport Q&A ........................................................ 177 Limits of Memorialization ....................................... 218 Logicist Remarks on Rapaport on Philosophy of Common Sense and Racial Sensibility: Three Computer Science ................................................. 177 Conversations on The Post Racial Limits of Memorialization ..................................................... 220 Comments on Bringsjord’s “Logicist Remarks” .... 181 Politicizing Aesthetics May Not Be Enough: On Exploring the Territory: The Logicist Way and Other Alfred Frankowski’s The Post-Racial Limits of Paths into the Philosophy of Computer Science ... 183 Memorialization ..................................................... 224 Table of Contents, continued Post-Racial Limits, Silence, and Discursive Violence: A Reply ................................................... 226 Contributors ........................................................... 229 Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges .................. 230 From the Editor ...................................................... 230 Issues and Concerns in Philosophy at Two-Year Colleges ................................................................. 230 Call for Papers ........................................................ 232 Teaching Philosophy ....................................