Program - The International Association for Philosophy and Literature

THURSday MORNING | 3 July 2008
TH [OS-14] STOREY HALL SEMINAR ROOM 004
PHENOMENOLOGY, HERMENEUTICS, AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Organized, Chaired and Introduced by Kathleen Wright (Philosophy, Haverford
College, Haverford, USA)
How do we appropriate locally the truth which claims to be universal made by
works of art from different cultures? Is what Gadamer has called a “fusion
of horizons” -- an opening up of our culturally specific horizons -- always
possible?
Philip Buckley (Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, CANADA)
Authenticity vs. Orientalism? The Interpretation of Islam in Indonesia in “The
Religion of Java”
Chung-Chi Yu (Philosophy, Soochow University, Taipei, TAIWAN)
Lifeworld and Cultural Differences
On-Cho Ng (History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, USA)
Hermeneutics of Ultimacy: Truth, Text and Context in Confucian Exegesis
Kathleen Wright (Philosophy, Haverford College, Haverford, USA)
Revisiting Hans-Georg Gadamer and Wang Fu-Chih on the Fusion of Horizons
TH [LW-2] STOREY HALL SEMINAR ROOM 004
LIFE & WORKS: richard rorty memorial (1931-2007)
Organized, Chaired and Introduced by Eduardo Mendieta (Philosophy, Stony
Brook University, Stony Brook, USA)
Eduardo Mendieta (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA)
Democracy’s Poet: Richard Rorty’s Political Philosophy
Lenart Skof (Philosophy, University of Primorska, Koper, SLOVENIA)
Thinking Between Cultures: Pragmatism, Rorty and Intercultural Philosophy
Marianne Janack (Philosophy, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA)
Rorty as Philosopher
Harvey Cormier (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA)
Rorty and the Future of Pragmatism
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11:30-13:30 - LUNCHES IN RESEARCH LOUNGE, BUILDING 8, LEVEL 5
Tickets available at IAPL Registration Desk
13:30-15:00 ian potter center NGV- federation square