PEW - Latest Issue (Univ. Hawai'i)uhpressARTICLES The Existential Moment: Rereading Dōgen’s Theory of Time Rein Raud, 153 This article argues for a new way to interpret Dōgen’s theory of time, reading the notion of uji as momentary existence, and shows that many notorious difficulties usually … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] rebeccacliffordARTICLES Parasitism and Disjunctivism in Nyāya Epistemology Matthew R. Dasti, 1 This article examines a number of arguments I collectively term arguments from parasitism, which Nyāya employs to illustrate that rational reflection, the institution of language, and even error itself … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] uhpressARTICLES The Cultivation of Moral Feelings and Mengzi’s Method of Extension Emily McRae, 587 Offered here is an interpretation of the ancient Confucian philosopher Mengzi’s (372–289 B.C.E.) method of cultivating moral feelings, which he calls “extension.” It is argued that … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] rebeccacliffordREMEMBERING DR. KENNETH K. INADA Dr. Kenneth K. Inada (1923–2011), 407 A Memorial Tribute to Kenneth K. Inada Eliot Deutsch, 408 ARTICLES Abstract Concept Formation in Archaic Chinese Script Forms: Some Humboldtian Perspectives Tze-wan Kwan, 409 Starting from the Humboldtian … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] uhpressARTICLES The Différance that Makes All the Difference: A Comparison of Derrida and Śankara Carl Olson, 247 This essay compares Śankara and Jacques Derrida on the issue of difference. This hermeneutical dialogue compares the two thinkers with respect to the … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] uhpressARTICLES Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Disembodied Existence Ramesh Kumar Sharma, 1 This essay starts with a clarification of the assumption that prima facie all experience is lived embodied experience. Subsequent to a brief allusion to Leibniz’ mind-body parallelism and to an … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] uhpressARTICLES Cartesian Intuitions, Humean Puzzles, and the Buddhist Conception of the Self Alan Tomhave, 443 The Cartesian conception of the self is of an essentially thinking thing, a robust “I,” one that wills, feels, et cetera. This Cartesian self is … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] uhpressARTICLES Diṅnāga and Mental Models: A Reconstruction Amita Chatterjee and Smita Sirker, 315 In the fifth century c.e., Diṅnāga introduced a distinction between inference-for-oneself (svarthānumāna) and inference-for-others (parārthānumāna), which was adopted by all later pramāṇa theorists. A reevaluation of this … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] uhpressARTICLES Al-Ghazali and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the Question of Human Freedom and the Chain of Being Craig Truglia, 143 The person most often credited as the first to free humanity from its bonds in the chain of being … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] uhpressARTICLES What Kind of Free Will Did the Buddha Teach? Asaf Federman, 1 Recently, some contradictory statements have been made concerning whether or not the Buddha taught free will. Here, a comparative method is used to examine what exactly is … Continue reading view article | [UH Press Journals Log » Philosophy East and West] |