Dec 4, 2009, 9am
Brooklyn College
Dec 5, 2009, 10am
CUNY Graduate Center
At one time, there was lively dialogue between Western and Eastern philosophy. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and William James were strongly influenced by Eastern philosophy. But, during recent years, Western philosophy has shown much less respect for the East than previously and there seems less awareness that issues like epistemology, time, and selfhood have been addressed very intelligently in the East.
The purpose of the conference is to reinvigorate the dialog between Eastern and Western philosophy (philosophy as distinct from religion), and a galaxy of brilliant speakers from all over the globe have agreed to participate.
SPEAKERS
Henk Barendregt (Nijmegen), Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia), Ricki Bliss (Melbourne), Simon Critchley (New School), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Alfred Ivry (NYU), Mark Johnston (Princeton), David Mumford (Brown), Parimal Patil (Harvard), Graham Priest (Melbourne and GC, CUNY), Chakravarthi Ram Prasad (Lancaster), Carol Rovane (Columbia), Kwong-loi Shun (Hong Kong), Galen Strawson (Reading)
SPONSORS
Philosophy departments (Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center), Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College, Office of Development at CUNY Graduate Center, The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, Asian American/Asian Research Institute
ORGANIZERS
Prof. Rohit Parikh (Brooklyn and Graduate Center), Prof. Kai Cheng (Chung Cheng University), Prof. Brian Schwartz (Graduate Center), and Prof. Robert Viscusi (Wolfe Institute)
