Our own Amod Lele will be giving a talk at a conference organized by Pierre-Julien Harter at the University of Utah, on April 21-22. The other philosophers there, and their talks may also be of interest to readers of this blog:
- Laura Guerrero: “Buddhist Fictionalism Reconsidered”
- Amod Lele: “Disengaged Buddhism: Why South Asian Buddhists Rejected Engagement with Systemic Institutions”
- Charles Goodman: “Two-Level Consequentialism, Śāntideva’s Ethics, and the Justification of Punishment”
- Dale Wright: “Buddhist Atheism as a Challenge to the Philosophy of Religion”
- William Edelglass: “Nature and Buddha-Nature: Poetry, Place, and the Transmission of Buddhism”
- Pierce Salguero: “Beyond Mindfulness: Buddhism and Health in Historical Perspective”
- John Dunne: “Phenomenological Reduction as Therapeutic Technique: The Buddhist Theory and Practice of Dereification”
Hi Malcolm – thanks for the plug! The conference goes two days (April 21-22) and its website is at http://philosophy.utah.edu/upcoming-talks/buddhismsengagement.php; Pierre-Julien Harter is the organizer. He asked if we could edit the post to reflect these – do you mind if I go in and do that for you?
The link does not seem to work…
It looks like they changed it from philosophy to religious studies? New link here (I’ll update the post, too) http://religious-studies.utah.edu/news/buddhismsengagement.php