Lived Experience of Interracial Dialogue on Race: Proclivity to Participate

The author conducted a qualitative inquiry of individuals' proclivity to participate in interracial dialogues. Lived experience of 20 participants in a race study circle yielded the overarching themes of education, self‐reflection, advanced empathy, moral consciousness, universality, racial identity development, and social interest. Implications for research and recommendations for counselor education are discussed. La autora llevaron a cabo una investigación cualitativa sobre la propensión de individuos a participar en diálogos interraciales. La experiencia vivida de 20 participantes en un círculo de estudio sobre raza dio como resultado los temas omnímodos de educación, autorrefexión, empatía avanzada, conciencia moral, universalidad, desarrollo de la identidad racial e interés social. Se discuten las implicaciones para la investigación, así como recomendaciones para la educación de los consejeros.     

Philosophy and Science Dialogue: Consciousness

This is a dialogue between a philosopher and a scientist about the scientific explanation of consciousness. What is consciousness? Does it admit of scientific explanation? If so, what must a scientific theory of consciousness be like in order to provide us with a satisfying explanation of its explanandum? And what types of entities might such a theory acknowledge as being conscious? Philosopher Owen Flanagan and scientist Giulio Tononi weigh in on these issues during an exchange about the nature and scientific explanation of consciousness.     

Philosophy and Science Dialogue: Free Will

In this dialogue Derk Pereboom and Marcel Brass discuss the free will problem from the perspective of philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. First, they give their opinion on how the two disciplines contribute to the free will problem. While Pereboom is optimistic regarding the contribution of science, Brass is more pessimistic and questions the usefulness of an empirical approach to the question whether free will exists or not. Then they outline their position on the free will problem. The idea of a transcendental agent is discussed in more detail. Furthermore, it is discussed whether free will scepticism is a politically, socially, psychologically viable position. Pereboom argues that promoting the idea of free will scepticism can have a positive impact on retributive emotions and the political practice regarding retributive punishment. Brass argues that retributive emotions are deeply rooted in evolution and therefore difficult to change via high-level beliefs about free will. Finally, the future of the free will debate is discussed. Both agree that the dialogue between philosophy and psychology should be intensified. Philosophy can benefit from taking empirical research more seriously. Psychology and neuroscience can benefit from philosophy by appreciating the sophistication and conceptual clarity of the philosophical debate. Both have to find a common language and define common problems that can be tackled from both perspectives.     

Philosophy and Science Dialogue: Mental Causation

This paper is a dialogue between Thalia Wheatley and Terence Horgan. Horgan maintains that philosophy is a broadly empirical discipline, and that philosophical theorizing about how concepts work treats certain intuitions about proper concept-usage as empirical data. He holds that the possibility of strong multiple realizability undermines the psychophysical identity theory. He holds that the concept of causation is governed by implicit contextual parameters, and that this dissolves Kim’s problem of “causal exclusion.” He holds that the concept of free will is governed by implicit contextual parameters, and that free-will attributions are often true, in typical contexts, even if determinism is true. Thalia Wheatley holds that the concept of multiple realizability hinges on the level of abstraction discussed and that neuroscientific data does not yet support multiple realizability of mental states from specific, high resolution brain states. She also holds that compatibilism redefines the concept of free will in ways that bear little resemblance to the common understanding―that of being free to choose otherwise in the moment. She maintains that this folk understanding is incompatible with the brain as a physical system and is not rescued by concepts of context and capacity.     

走向多元对话的中国哲学--第十二届国际中国哲学会侧记

两年一度的国际中国哲学会——第12届国际中 国哲学会,于2001年7月20—24日,在中国 北京顺利召开。这是北京继1993年主办第八届国际中国哲学会之后,第二次主办这一国际性 的中国哲学会议。出席此次会议的专家、学者约有300余位,他们分别来自祖国大陆、台湾 、香港、澳门地区和美国、英国、德国、瑞典、加拿大、澳大利亚、日本、韩国等13个国家 ,是历届出席会议人数最多的一次。与会学者向大会提交的论文有250篇,有204位学者分别 在全体大会和分场会议上发言。本次会议共有4次全体大会,8次分组会议,共五十多个分会 场;分会场最多的…     

Paulo Freire and Philosophy for Children: A Critical Dialogue

This paper is an attempt to connect the Brazilian Paulo Freire’s well known educational thinking with the “philosophy for children” movement. It considers the relationship between the creator of philosophy for children (P4C), Matthew Lipman and Freire through different attempts to establish a relationship between these two educators. The paper shows that the relationship between them is not as close as many supporters of P4C have claimed, especially in Latin America. It also considers the context of Educational Policies in our time and why Freire’s understanding of the politics of education makes it impossible to be Freirean and at the same time be neutral or favorable to the actual status quo. Finally, after presenting Lipman’s understanding of the relationship between philosophy, education and democracy and their connection to capitalism, it proposes ways to begin the political path of philosophizing with children inspired by Paulo Freire’s educational thinking. As a result, a more politically committed path to doing philosophy with children is offered.     

Zhuangzi and Buber in Dialogue: A Lesson in Practicing Integrative Philosophy

I put forward the case that comparative philosophy is best practiced as integrative philosophy. The model for integrative philosophy employed embodies its own methodology, integrating the Hegelian dialectic and the Yin-Yang 陰陽, cyclical model of change illustrated by the Yijing 易經 (Book of Changes) as strategies for integrating philosophical traditions. As an object lesson, I integrate a real, historical one-way encounter with an imagined two-way encounter between Martin Buber and Zhuangzi 莊子, to provide a counter-example to replace Huntington’s clash of civilizations with a meeting of civilizations.     

马丁·布伯:当代语境中的对话哲学

马丁·布伯在当代语境中开创了一套对话哲学,这是值得高度重视和隆重纪念的。对话哲学强调人之作为实践存在优先于人之作为认知主体,强调第二人称的优先性,即我-你关系优先于我-它关系。这是富于洞察力和感召力的哲学遗产,尽管布伯仍未能将这种对话哲学发展为具有当代意义的语言哲学。     

Crossing the Divide Within Continental Philosophy: Reconstruction, Deconstruction, Dialogue and Education

In this article I explore some points of convergence between Habermas and Derrida that revolve around the intersection of ethical and epistemological issues in dialogue. After some preliminary remarks on how dialogue and language are viewed by Habermas and Derrida as standpoints for departing from the philosophy of consciousness and from logocentric metaphysics, I cite the main points of a classroom dialogue in order to illustrate the way in which the ideas of Habermas and Derrida are sometimes received as well as the actual relevance of ethical and epistemic concerns within educational settings. I claim that such concerns cannot be sidestepped without cost and that they can be approached by combining rather than rigidly separating Habermas and Derrida. Beyond the consolidated polemics, emancipatory politics and Enlightenment priorities of truth and justice bring Habermasian reconstruction and Derridean deconstruction closer than it is typically assumed. Attention to such a convergence can enrich the teaching material of higher education courses which usually comprises either Habermasian or Derridean texts but rarely both. It can also stave off some of the risks involved in some versions of constructivism as they occur in school practice.     

辩证法与过程哲学的对话 --科布教授访谈录

问:科布教授,很感谢您就"辩证法与过程哲学的对话"这一话题接受我的访问.正如您所知,辩证法是马克思哲学极为重要的理论基础之一.中国一些学者试图充分吸取现当代哲学的理论成果,从更大的理论视野对辩证法的当代形态及其哲学内涵进行新的阐释.在您看来,在辩证法与过程哲学之间,是否存在可沟通和对话的思想空间?如果答案是肯定的,那么,这种沟通和对话何以成为可能?     

Interracial Relationships in Hawaii

SUMMARY

Given the increase in rates of intermarriages, it is vital that we understand the issues and benefits of interracial relationships and the ways in which therapists might assist interracial couples. Our focus in this article is on interracial relationships in Hawaii. Because of its history of promoting interracial ties and its plural character, Hawaii is, in many ways, a unique setting for interracial relationships. At the same time, there are relational issues, benefits, and needs faced by both mainstream U.S. interracial couples and interracial couples in Hawaii. There are a variety of therapeutic interventions that could be used to help interracial couples. This chapter examines the factors in Hawaii's past and present that contribute to its particular history of interracial relationships, the common challenges that face interracial couples, personal and relational benefits of interracial relationships, and the therapeutic interventions from which interracial couples may benefit.     

Women in Interracial Relationships

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德国技术哲学发展历史的中德对话

2004年8月,大连理工大学德国技术哲学研究中心以"技术伦理与技术评估"为主题举办了为期10天的讲习班.主讲者是德国著名技术哲学家、斯图加特大学教授胡必希(Christoph Hubig)先生.借此机会,我们邀请胡必希先生、正在中国访问的柏林工业大学哲学系教授波塞尔(Hans Poser)先生以及大连理工大学的王前教授就德国技术哲学发展的分期、主要代表人物、技术哲学的前景等问题进行了对话与讨论.本文根据对话记录整理而成.     

拉图尔非现代哲学溯源——基于拉图尔与塞尔的对话

法国科学哲学家米歇尔·塞尔是拉图尔的哲学导师,他的关系哲学是拉图尔拒斥现代性二分的非现代哲学的重要思想源头。不同于以往人与非人、自然与社会、科学与政治的截然二分,非现代哲学注重关联性,在统一与杂多、二分与综合中选择后者。实际上,非现代哲学就是一种关系哲学。塞尔这位学界普遍忽视的科学哲学家为拉图尔提供了诸多重要的灵感来源,拉图尔从塞尔那里继承了相似的时空观,直接借用了转译、拟客体等核心概念,在人类世等现实层面也与塞尔主张一致。梳理二人的异同有利于我们更深入地理解非现代哲学,进而为把握当下关联混杂的社会现状提供理论工具。