February 11 & 12, 2011
Philips Autograph Library, West Chester University

Co-sponsored by West Chester University Philosophy Department, the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium and the Ethnic Studies Institute at West Chester University.

Keynote Speakers:

David R. Loy, formerly Besl Family Chair Professor of Ethics/Religion and Society at Xavier University in Cincinnati
Title of talk: ”Healing Ecology: Buddhist Reflections on the Eco-crisis”
Dr. Loy is interested in the dialogue between Buddhism and modernity. His books include Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy; Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism; The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory; and most recently The World Is Made of Stories. He is authorized as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen.

Jin Y. Park, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, American University, Washington, D.C.
Title of talk: “Ethics of Tension”
Dr. Park specializes in Zen and Huayan Buddhism, Buddhist-postmodern comparative philosophy, Buddhist ethics, and Buddhism’s encounter with modernity in Korea. She is the founding co-chair of International Society for Buddhist Philosophy, former co-chair of Zen Buddhism Seminar and current co-chair of Korean Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion. Her book length publications include: Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics (2008), Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism (ed., 2010), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (co-ed., 2009), and Buddhisms and Deconstructions (ed., 2006).

Charles Johnson, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle
Title of talk: [TBA]
Dr. Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary critic, short story writer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and was the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of English at the University of Washington. A Ph.D. in philosophy, he is the author of 18 books, among them Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing (2003), and has published numerous essays, drawings and works of criticism. He is a MacArthur Fellow, recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and winner of the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage.

Panelists (all members of GPPC):

Ashok Gangadean, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute
Director of the Margaret Gest Center for Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Haverford College

Justin T. McDaniel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
University of Pennsylvania

Shigenori Nagatomo, Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism
Department of Religion
Temple University

Monte S. Hull, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Religion
Temple University

Frank Hoffman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
West Chester University

Alan A. Preti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Division Chair, Arts and Humanities
Rosemont College

William Grosnick, Ph.D.
Professor of Religion
La Salle University

To register for the conference, please email Charlotte Moore at cmoore@wcupa.edu. This event is free and open to the public.

WCU Philosophy conference organizing committee consists of Helen Schroepfer, Frank Hoffman, Joan Woolfrey and Charlotte Moore.

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