Dear Colleagues
We are happy to announce the following international workshop:
The Ontology of Asian Philosophy
Perspectives from Buddhist Studies and Analytic Philosophy at Ryukoku University, Omiya Campus, West Wing 2F, Kyoto.
April 13 Sat. 1000-1800
1. Shoryu Katsura , What exists in Buddhist philosophy?
2. Mark Siderits, Abhidharma Ontology and its Defense
3. Jay Garfield, I am a Brain in a Vat (or perhaps a pile of sticks by the side of the road)
4. Tom Tillemans, Serious, Lightweight or Neither?
5. Hideyo Ogawa, Existence and meaning: Indian grammarians’ approach to ‘existence’
April 14 Sat. 1000-1800
6. Kai-Yuan Cheng, Self and Body in the Zhuangzi
7. Chen-kuo Lin, How to meditate with the knowledge of particulars and universals for attaining enlightenment? -- Huizhao on svalakṣaṇa and sāmānyalakṣaṇa
8. Yasuo Deguchi, Logic of Emptiness; Nishitani, Jizang, and Para-consistency
9. Ricki Bliss, Metaphysical Anti-Foundationalism
10. Takashi Yagisawa, Deflationary Existence and Necessity
Anyone in Kansai area who is interested in the subject will be welcomed.
Shoryu Katsura, Ryukoku University, Kyoto
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