ISCWP Panel Session at the APA Eastern Division 2006 Meeting

(December 27-30, 2006, Washington, DC, USA)

PANEL ONE

Title: Language, Argument, and Paradox in Warring States China

Chair: Jane Geaney, University of Richmond

Speakers:

Chris Fraser, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Similarity and Models in Ancient Chinese Argumentation”
Dan Robins, Stockton College, “The Later Mohists and Logic”
Chad Hansen, University of Hong Kong, “Pragmatic and Prescriptive Paradoxes in the Later Mohist Corpus”
Boram Lee, University of Connecticut, "The Implicit Argument in Hui Shi’s Ten Propositions"

PANEL TWO

Title: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality and Autonomy: Confucian
and Liberal Feminist Theories

Chair: TBA

Speakers:

Jinfen Yan, University of Toronto, "Neo-Confucian Feminist Consciousness: Zhu Xi's Moral Reform and Women of His Time"
Pauline Lee, Washington University in St. Louis, "Chinese Indigenous Feminism: A Study of Li Zhi"
Annette Dufner, University of Toronto, "Feminism and Autonomy: Mill's Utilitarian Reasons for Liberal Feminism"

Commentator: Lynda Lange, University of Toronto