Seminars

Comparative Philosophy

Year Founded 2007

Seminar # 721

StatusActive

The Comparative Philosophy Seminar seeks to advance constructive philosophical projects by bringing together scholars with training in diverse areas of Asian (mostly Buddhist) thought and Western Philosophy. Comparison in this context is not employed to loan authority to one set of obscure discoveries by revealing its resonances with the works of others, deemed less obscure. Nor does it sociologize philosophy in search of general laws of human cultural and intellectual development. Rather, the intent is to explicate, and employ, the fullness of an expanded philosophical toolset—and see how that works. The seminar ordinarily invites respondents who are versed in the relevant field of philosophical inquiry, but who are not necessarily specialists in Asian thought. In order to facilitate an ongoing conversation, seminar meetings for a given year are loosely organized around a very general theme, which speakers are asked to address when possible. In past years, the themes have been “Personal Identity” (2007–2008) and “Meta-Ethics” (2008–2009).

Chair/s

Jonathan C. Gold

Rapporteur/s

Helen Han Wei Luo

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Meeting Schedule

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

06
Dec

December 6, 20245:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Philosophy Hall

Room 716

An Ethics of Attention

Speaker/s

Daniel Stephens, University at Buffalo

Respondent/s

Santiago Mejia, Fordham University

Scheduled

08
Nov

November 8, 20245:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Zoom

Aspiration, Ambition, and Confucian Debates on Human Nature

Speaker/s

Hannah Kim , The University of Arizona

Respondent/s

Timothy Connolly, East Stroudsburg University

Scheduled

18
Oct

October 18, 20245:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Philosophy Hall

Room 716

Columbia University

Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Action Theory

Speaker/s

Nicolas Bommarito , Simon Fraser University

Respondent/s

Jonathan C. Gold, Princeton University

Scheduled

13
Sep

September 13, 20245:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Philosophy Hall

Room 716

Columbia University

Causal Dispositionalism and Emptiness in Huayan Buddhism

Speaker/s

Nicholaos Jones, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Respondent/s

Jennifer R. McDonald, Columbia University

Cancelled

03
May

May 3, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Philosophy Hall

Columbia University

An Ethics of Attention

Speaker/s

Daniel Stephens, University at Buffalo

Respondent/s

Elizabeth Edenberg, CUNY Baruch

Scheduled

12
Apr

April 12, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Columbia University

Comparative Philosophy and Practical Applied Ethics

Speaker/s

Laura Specker Sullivan, Fordham University

Respondent/s

Wenqing Zhao, CUNY Baruch

Scheduled

02
Feb

February 2, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Philosophy Hall

Columbia University

Speaker/s

Davey Tomlinson, Villanova University

Scheduled

19
Jan

January 19, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Philosophy Hall

Columbia University

NyāYa, Buddhism, RāMakaṇṭHa, and Galen Strawson on the Existence of Selves

Speaker/s

Alex Watson, Ashoka University

Respondent/s

Martin Lin, Rutgers University

Scheduled

01
Dec

December 1, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Philosophy Hall

Columbia University

Mind the Gap: Methodological Pluralism in Comparative Philosophy

Speaker/s

Stephen Angle, Wesleyan University

Respondent/s

Katja Vogt, Columbia University

Scheduled

27
Oct

October 27, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Philosophy Hall

Columbia University

Zhuangzi on Not Following the Leader

Speaker/s

David Wong, Duke University

Respondent/s

Christopher Gowans, Fordham University

Scheduled

13
Oct

October 13, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Philosophy Hall

Columbia University

Buddhist Analyses of the Unconscious Construction of Our Collective ‘Life-Worlds’

Speaker/s

William Waldron, Middlebury College

Respondent/s

Jonathan Gold, Princeton University

Scheduled

15
Sep

September 15, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Philosophy Hall

Columbia University

War and Shame –a Debate on the Appropriate Response to Insults Between the Confucians and Their Interlocutors

Speaker/s

Jing Hu, Concordia University, Canada

Respondent/s

Nalei Chen, New York University

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