AAPT-SACP co-sponsored session @Eastern APA
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT)
and the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP)
are co-sponsoring a session at the Eastern APA
in Washington, DC, January 2016.
The session : a special workshop, “Practical Steps for Introducing Asian Concepts into Standard Philosophy Courses”
Chair: Douglas Berger
Presenters:
- Stephen Harris(Leiden University), “Lost in Translation: How to Capitalize on Uneasy Translation as an Opportunity for Learning”
- Hugh Gunner Deery III(University of Alaska, Anchorage), “Dependent Origination as an Epistemological Complement to Hume and Idealism”
- John Ramsey(Denison University), “Non-Traditional Philosophy 101: Syllabi, Assignments, and Lesson Plans for Putting Asian Texts to Use”
- Sula You(University of Oklahoma) and Seth Robertson (University of Oklahoma), “Classroom Exercises for Helping Students Understand Philosophical Concepts from Asian Traditions”
- Douglas Berger(Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), “Incorporating Asian Content into Philosophy of Religion Undergraduate Courses”
Some of the other sessions of particular interest at the Eastern APA:
- AAPT session : http://philosophyteachers.org/aapt-2016-eastern-apa/
- SACP session on teaching Asian texts in an ethics course: http://philosophyteachers.org/sacp-eastern-apa/
- APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy panel on advice for job candidates (deadline to apply to be a panelist is August 17): http://philosophyteachers.org/apa-call-for-panelists/
