lunes, 1 de abril de 2013

CONFERENCE International workshop on Buddhist Ontology (Katsura)


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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