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Elad Lapidot: Forthcoming Book Workshop: State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel
Elad Lapidot
Forthcoming Book Workshop: State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel by Elad Lapidot
★This event is co-sponsored by The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, the France Chicago Center, and the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Modern France and the Francophone World★
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Taryn Sue (tarynsue@uchicago.edu) or Yeti Kang (hkang01@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Elad Lapidot, book chapter
Dawid Rogacz: The Revival of Confucian Philosophy Through Its Interaction with Daoism
Dawid Rogacz
The Revival of Confucian Philosophy Through Its Interaction with Daoism: The Case of Sixth‐Century Master Liu (Liuzi)
★This event is co-sponsored by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop at the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies with support in part by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Resource Centers program. The event’s content does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and one should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government ★
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Taryn Sue (tarynsue@uchicago.edu) or Yeti Kang (hkang01@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Dawid Rogacz, paper
Danica Cao: Freedom beyond Resistance and Autonomy
Danica Cao
Freedom beyond Resistance and Autonomy: Reading Zhang Taiyan’s Minbao-Period Revolutionary Morality through Kant’s “Ethical Community”
Hosted by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop at the University of Chicago.
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Taryn Sue (tarynsue@uchicago.edu) or Yeti Kang (hkang01@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Protected: Danica Cao, paper
Jed Forman, “Omniphenomenology: What Buddhist Theories of Omniscience Teach Us about Experience”
Jed Forman
Omniphenomenology: What Buddhist Theories of Omniscience Teach Us about Experience
Husserl’s method of epoché involves a suspension of subject-object dichotomies. This, he argues, addresses a “crisis of European sciences,” recovering our pre-theoretical, direct encounter with the world as a starting point for scientific inquiry. Nevertheless, Husserl’s methodology emphasizes the subjective pole. Indeed, it constitutes a type of idealism. This prioritization of the first-person, I argue, has been a mainstay of phenomenology ever since.
This presentation recruits Buddhist theories of omniscience as an intervention. I explore how Buddhist thinkers from the epistemological (pramāṇa) tradition—including Dharmakīrti, Prajñākaragupta, and Śāntarakṣita—understand omniscience as a return to our most natural, pre-theoretical state, where division between mind and world are elided. Their arguments thus provide a more thorough suspension of subject-object dichotomies, providing useful fodder for contemporary phenomenology. Borrowing from Linda Zagzebski’s notion of omnisubjectivity, I dub this intervention “omniphenomenology.”
Hosted by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop at the University of Chicago.
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Taryn Sue (tarynsue@uchicago.edu) or Yeti Kang (hkang01@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Protected: Jed Foreman’s book chapter
Yiting Tang: On Being Attuned: A Reading of Zhuangzi II
Yiting Tang
On Being Attuned: A Reading of Zhuangzi II
Hosted by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop at the University of Chicago.
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Taryn Sue (tarynsue@uchicago.edu) or Yeti Kang (hkang01@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.