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Phone: 470-578-6596

Email: djones@kennesaw.edu

Office Location: SO 4082

Office Hours:
By Appointment on Teams

Courses

Philosophy Student Association Events and Lectures

The Philosophy Forum

I am, but what am I?: Examining the Nature of Self
Daniel Shields
March 1, 2012 at 12:30
Leadership Room (Student Center)

Delocalization of Culture: Media as Catalyst of Revolution and Resistance
Daniel Shields
February 16, 2012 at 12:30
Leadership Room (Student Center)

Selfishness: A Virtue?
Jessica Barber, PSA Vice President
February 8, 2012 at 12:30
Social Science 5074

Mike Ryan Lecture Series Spring 2012

April 5, 2012 at 12:30
Dying a Living Death:
Phantasms of Burial and Cremation in Derrida's Final Seminar
Michael Naas, Depaul University
Social Science 1019

April 7, 2012 at 1:30
'If you could take just two books . . .':
Derrida at the Ends of the World with Heidegger and Robinson Crusoe
Michael Naas, Depaul University
University Rooms (Student Center)
(Plenary for the 9th North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference is open to the public)

March 21, 2012 at 12:30
Sharing the World:
Some Thoughts on Derrida's Last Seminar, "The Beast and the Sovereign"
David Farrell Krell, University of Freiburg and DePaul University
HS1000 Auditorium

March 20, 2012 at 12:30
History, Counter-Memory and the Search for a Modern Identity in
Contemporary Chinese Art
Stephen Goldberg, Hamilton College
Social Science 1019

March 15, 2012 at 2:00
Rethinking Reparations: Buddhist Perspectives on Restorative Justice
Leah Kalmanson, Drake University
Leadership Room (Student Center)

February 28, 2012 at 12:30
The Visible and the Invisible:
Rethinking Values and Justice from a Buddhist-Postmodern Perspective
Jin Y. Park, American University
Social Science 1019

February 21, 2012 at 12:30
Nietzsche and the Meaning of Human
Darin McGinnis, Wheeling Jesuit University
Social Science 1019

February 7, 2012 at 12:30
Feminist Optimism, Queer Pessimism, and Buddhist Hopelessness:
An Immoderate Middle Way Across The Double-Bind
Amy Donahue, Kennesaw State University
Social Sciences 1019

January 31, 2012 at 12:30
The Doctrine of Necessity in Political Islam: Origins and Implications
Aslam Syed, Humbolt University, Berlin
University Rooms A, B, & C

Mike Ryan Lecture Series Fall 2011

November 10, 2011 at 12:30-1:45
Fortune-telling, Physics, and Philosophy in the Yijing
Larry Schulz, PhD Princeton University
Leadership Room, Student Center
*Co-sponsored by the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies

November 3, 2011 at  2:00-3:15
Confucian Role Ethics: Does Blind Justice Need Moral Imagination?
Roger T. Ames
University of Hawaii
Student Center, University Room A
*Co-sponsored by the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies
and the Siegel Institute for Leadership, Ethics & Character

October 27, 2011 at 12:30-1:45
Why listen to the other animals?
Katy Payne, Cornel University
Student Center, University Room A
* Co-sponsored by the Student Coalition of Inquiry and the College of Math and Sciences

September 27, 2011 at 12:30-1:45
John Sweeney, University of Hawai`i
Bodies without Stories and Stories without Bodies
Burruss Building 151
Mike Ryan Lecture Series Spring 2011

April 7, 2011 at 12:30-1:45
Keynote Lecture
Speaking (out) of Experience: Ueda Shizuteru on the Language of Zen
Bret Davis, Loyola College of Maryland
Leadership Room (Student Center)

April 9, 2011 at 1:00-2:30
The Other Inside the Self Outside: The Kyoto School on the I-Thou Relation
Bret Davis, Loyola College of Maryland
Leadership Room (Student Center)

April 14, 2011 at 12:30
Kokoro and Hara:
Emotional Cognition and Whole-Person Thinking in Japanese Buddhism
Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Burruss 151

April 19, 2011 at 12:30
The Yijing as Divination, Hermeneutics, and Ethics
Eric Nelson, University of Massachusetts
Burruss 151

April 21, 2011 at 12:30
Heidegger’s Contribution to a Phenomenology of Justice
Nythamar de Oliveira, Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil
Burruss 151

April 26, 2011 at 12:30
Sounding Depth with the North Atlantic Right Whale and Merleau-Ponty:
An Exercise in Comparative Phenomenology
Jen McWeeney, John Carroll University
Burruss 151

Abstract
The North Atlantic right whale is an endangered species whose current
population size is estimated to be between 350 and 400 individual animals.
Their dangerously small population size is a direct result of the whaling
industry, which hunted the right whale almost to extinction until an
international ban was instituted against harvesting them in 1935. My
philosophical interest in the North Atlantic right whale has to do with what
the nonhuman whale body can teach us about a phenomenology of depth and the
limits of the human subject, more generally. By thinking embodied whale
experience together with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's discussion of depth in The
Phenomenology of Perception, I hope to generate a description of depth that
is richer than that which could be developed in the absence of this
juxtaposition. In particular, focusing on the lived bodies of North
Atlantic right whales can help to enhance our understanding of
Merleau-Ponty's claim that depth is a relational phenomenon of mutual
envelopment that is tied to an organism's practical orientation toward the
world.

Spring 2011 PSA 3 Part Student Led Text Seminar God After the Death of God

Readings are posted on the PSA web site: http://www.philosophystudentassociation.com/.

March 15 3:30-5:30
Epistemic Valuations (Science and God)
Social Science 5074 History Research Center Classroom
Reading: Michael Ruse, Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science, Chapter 8: "God"
Seminar Panel Leader: Matt Dudt

March 22 3:30-5:30
Social Science 5074 History Research Center Classroom
The Oath (non-Oath) of Fidelity:
God, Faith, Nihilism, Existence, Terror, and Atheism
Reading: Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Chapter 6: "Is there an Absolute Duty to God"
Seminar Leader: Jessie German

March 29 3:30-5:30
Social Science 5074 History Research Center Classroom
The Inter-Connectivity of All That Is: God, Self, Nihilism, and Life
Reading: NISHITANI Keiji, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism, Chapter 8: "The Meaning of Nihilism in Japan" & Epilogue "The Problem of Atheism"
Seminar Leader: Cody Staton

Spring 2011 Text Seminars

April 19, 2011 at 3:30
Asymmetry, Harmony, and the Other in Early Chinese Ethics
Eric Nelson, University of Massachusetts
Social Science 5074 History Research Center Classroom
Text Seminar Reading:
Selections from the Analects of Confucius

Mike Ryan Lecture Series Fall 2010

November 16, 2010 at 12:30-1:45
"Arendt and Hobbes:
Glory, Sacrificial Violence, and the Political Imagination"
Peg Birmingham, DePaul Univeresity
Social Science 1019

October 21, 2010 at 12:30-1:45
"Something about Nothing"
Jason Wirth, Seattle University
Burruss 152
In collaboration with Emory University's Department of Philosophy.

October 22, 2010
Text Seminar on Religion and Nothingness by Nishitani Keiji
Invitation only for advanced students.

October 28, at 12:30-1:45
"Writing Sex and Politics in Taiwan"
Li Ang
Burruss 117
In collaboration with: Emory University Department of Russian and East Asian Languages, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta Center for Asian Studies, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta, The Press Division, Morehouse College Chinese Program, North America Chinese Writers' Association in Georgia;Chinese-American Academic and Professional Association in Southeastern United States;World Journal- Chinese Daily News;Atlanta Chinese-American Artist Association ;Culture Center of Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Atlanta, and the KSU Chinese Club.

About Li Ang:
Li Ang, a prominent woman writer from Taiwan, has made tremendous contribution to women’s literature in the world with her persistent, in-depth investigation of the intriguing intertwining of gender and politics in social life and literary creation. Beginning her writing career at the age of sixteen, she has published nearly twenty novels and/or collections of short stories. Many of her major works have been translated in different languages, published world-wide, reviewed by The New York Times and other major newspapers in many countries, and made into films and TV series. In 2004, Li Ang was awarded “ The Chevalier de L’ordre des Arts des Lettres” by the French minister of Culture and Communication as an acknowledgement of her literary achievement.

Born in 1952, Li Ang grew up in Lu-Kang—a historical town in the central part of Taiwan. She published her first short story “Flower Season” at the age of sixteen. The publication of “Butcher’s Wife” in 1983 established Li Ang as one of the most important contemporary writers in Taiwan. This work, depicting how an impoverished young woman is driven to insanity by patriarchal forces and therefore commits the murder of her abusive husband, has won critical attention from scholars in various countries, including Professor Shozo Fujii from Tokyo University who admired Li Ang so much that he translated and helped publish many of Li Ang’s novels in Japan since the early 1990s. The Nobel Prize winner Mr. Kenzaburo Oe said there are two best contemporary woman writers in Chinese,one is Li Ang from Taiwan. While gender politics surfaces strongly in her early writing, Li Ang began to examine the intertwining of gender and politics in the reconstruction of historical narratives after the lifting of martial law (1987) in Taiwan. The publication of four majors novels in the 1990s--including Garden of Riddles (1990), The Incense Burner of Lust (1997 ), Autobiography : A Novel (2000 novel), The Visible Ghost (2003)—open up new dimension of gender writing in literature as Li Ang combine critical reflections on postcolonial politics with gender politics to examine the questions of women in Taiwan. 

A writer who has continued to open up new space of critical reflections on the question of women in literary writing, Li Ang has not only made great contribution to the development of Taiwan Literature but helped raise the profile of non-western women’s literature in the international arena.

  • 1966 started to write a novel but did not complete it
  • 1968 published first short story “Flower Season “at the age of 16.
  • 1974 B.A. degree, Dept. of philosophy, Chinese Culture University in   Taiwan
  • 1975 published a collection of short stories The Flower Season visited Canada
  • 1977 published her second collection of short stories, The Secular World
  • 1977 M.A. degree, Dept. of Theatre, University of Oregon U.S.A.
  • 1978 came back to Taiwan. Beginning to teach as an assistant professor at the Chinese Culture University.
  • 1981 published Don’t Pity Me, Teach Me
  • 1982, published Diagnosis of Love (short story collection) A Love Letter Undelivered (short story collection)
  • 1983 The Butcher’s Wife. “The Butcher’s Wife” has been translated and published in more than 10 countries, including Japan, Germany, Italy, Sweden, France, Netherlands, U.S.A., U.K. etc.
  • 1984 Her Tears (short story collection)
  • 1984 Women’s Opinion (prose essays)
  • 1985 Dark Night, translated and published in France.
  • 1985 Extra- marital Affairs (social study)
  • 1986 Cat and Lover (1986 essay)
  • 1988 For Those Passing Years (novel)
  • 1991 Garden of Riddles (novel), later translated and published in Japan and   France.
  • 1997 The Incense Burner of Lust (novel)
  • 2000 Autobiography: A Novel (novel)
  • 2000 The Voyageur/Voyaging (travelogue)
  • 2003 The Visible Ghost (novel), translated and published in Germany.
  • 2004 Gournande (prose essays)
  • 2005 Lost in Love (novel)
  • 2007 Menu Desgustation (novel), made into a theatrical production performed by “The Oppression Theatre Group’ in Paris, France.
  • 2008 The Taiwanese/Chinese Lover

November 16, 2010 at 12:30-1:45
"Arendt and Hobbes:
Glory, Sacrificial Violence, and the Political Imagination"
Peg Birmingham, DePaul Univeresity
Social Science 1019

 

The 8th ANNUAL

NORTH GEORGIA STUDENT PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

Crossing Borders— Border Crossings

at

Kennesaw State University 

APRIL 8–10, 2011

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Bret W. Davis

Loyola University of Maryland

Approaching Dialogue with the Kyoto School

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS:

TBA

Submission is open to all students enrolled for undergraduate and graduate study at accredited institutions of higher education during the 2009-2010 Academic Year. For complete submission guidelines, visit the PSA web site: http://philosophystudentassociation.com/.

 

The 7th ANNUAL

NORTH GEORGIA STUDENT PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

Persons, Places, and Experiences:

In-between Climate, Culture, & Being

at

Kennesaw State University 

APRIL 16–17, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Brian Schroeder

Rochester Institute of Technology

Dying One's Own Death: Nothingness, Recurrence, and the"'Great Death"

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS:

MARCH 22, 2010

Submission is open to all students enrolled for undergraduate and graduate study at accredited institutions of higher education during the 2009-2010 Academic Year. For complete submission guidelines, visit the PSA web site:http://philosophystudentassociation.com/.

 

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Exhibit

1000 Cranes: Prospects of Peace in a Nuclear World

January 18 to January 29

8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.

Social Science Atrium

Kennesaw State University

1000 Cranes Teleconference with Hibakusha (bomb survivor)

January 21 at 7:00 P.M.

Social Science 1019

Kennesaw State University

 

Goguryeo Renderings:

Contemporary Fabric Re-Visions of Traditional Korean Tomb WallPaintings

By

Haeseon Hahn

January 11-15, 2010

Social Science Atrium

Kennesaw State University

Mike Ryan Lecture Series Spring 2010

January 19, 2010 at 12:30 (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop)
Double Exposure: Tsutomu Yamaguchi and the Luck of War
Reflections of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Christopher Jespersen, Dean School of Arts and Letters
North Georgia State College and University
Social Science 1019

January 19, 2010 at 6:00 P.M. (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop)
A Reading—
"A Day, Just Like Any Other Day: On a Birthday 75 Years Later"
David Jones, Atlanta Center for Asian Studies
Social Science 1019

January 21, 2010 at 7:00 P.M.
"Current Nuclear Issues"  (1000 Cranes Teleconference with Hibakusha)
Steven Leeper, Chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
Social Science 1019
and
Ms. Miyoko Watanabe, Hibakusha
Ms. Watanabe was 15 years old and a third year student at a girls’ 
school at the time of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She was exposed 
to the bomb when she stepped outside of her house located 2.2 kilometers 
(1.4 miles) from the ground zero.
Social Science 1019

January 26, 2010 at 12:30
"Against Forgiveness"
John J. Stuhr, Emory University
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies
Social Science 1019
("This presentation critically analyzes the nature of forgiveness across its religious, ethical, psychological, and medical dimensions. It concludes by outlining troubling assumptions and problems in the practice of forgiveness.")

January 28, 2010 at 12:30 (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop)
Douglas R. Reynolds, Georgia State University
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Tale of Two Cities in War and Peace"
Social Science 1019

February 25, 2010 at 12:30
"Korean Buddhism in East Asian Context"
Robert Buswell, UCLA
Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies
Director, Center for Buddhist Studies, UCLA
Director, Academy of Buddhist Studies (Pulgyo haksurwon),
Dongguk University, Seoul
Social Science 1019

March 16, 2010 at 12:30
"Finding and Losing Your Way: Plato's Erotic Path"
Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Georgia State University
Professor and William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies
Social Science 1019

April 1, 2010 at 12:30
"How Philosophy Can Help Save the Planet"
Graham Parkes, University College Cork, Ireland
Professor and Head of School of Sociology & Philosophy

April 15, 2010 at 12:30
"To Speak or Not to Speak: The Paradox and Periodic Dilemma of Silence"
Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chair of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies

April 17, 2010
"Dying One's Own Death: Nothingness, Recurrence, and the 'Great Death'"
Plenary Address North Georgia Philosophy Student Conference (open to students)
Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chair of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies

April 20, 2010 at 12:30
“Two Murders and A Funeral: The Birth of the Korean Nation”
Sung Shin Kim, North Georgia State College & University
Social Science 1019

Mike Ryan Lecture Series Fall 2009

October 22, 2009 at 12:30-1:45
Women in Daoism: Nuns, Priestesses, and Lay Practitioners
Livia Kohn, Boston University
Social Science 1019
(In conjunction with Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory)
(Co-sponsored by the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies)

October 26, 2009 at 12:30-1:45
The Redemption of Nature:
Why Poetry rather than Science Must Lead on the Environment
Joseph Lawrence, The College of Holy Cross
Social Science 1021

November 12, 2009 at 12:30-1:45
Mountains and Waters:
Zen Master Dogen and the Sutra of Nature
Jason Wirth, Seattle University
Social Science 1019

Courses

Philosophy 2200
Chinese Worldview & Modern Worldview Podcasts are available on GeorgiaView.

Chinese Philosophy (Spring 2011)

Philosophy 3310 (Fall 2009)

Philosophy 4425 (Spring 2009)
Course Syllabus is available on WebCT/Vista.

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