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View article: Buddhism, Nothingness, and Pessimism
Buddhism, Nothingness, and Pessimism Open
The present contribution excavates a pivotal shift in the history of European Buddhism. It outlines the conceptual-historical entanglements of “Buddhist nothingness” with nineteenth-century German philosophy from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche.…
View article: The Limits of Recognition: Hegel, Materialism, and Panpsychism
The Limits of Recognition: Hegel, Materialism, and Panpsychism Open
This contribution outlines several questions concerning the very paradigm of intersubjective recognition in post-Hegelian German philosophy in response to the work of Jon Stewart and Axel Honneth. It briefly traces, in conjunction with Ste…
View article: Perspectives on Chinese, Buddhist, and Environmental Philosophy
Perspectives on Chinese, Buddhist, and Environmental Philosophy Open
Appeals to the significance of a culture, tradition, or way of life can simultaneously edify and alienate different audiences as they serve an identity-forming and other-excluding function. The imaginary that some cultures are civilized an…
View article: Martin Heidegger and Kitayama Junyū
Martin Heidegger and Kitayama Junyū Open
Heidegger’s early philosophical project was identified with a nihilistic philosophy of nothingness after the 1927 publication of Being and Time—with its depiction of the radical existential anxiety of being-towards-death—and his 1929 lectu…
View article: Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other by Eric Nelson, SUNY Press, 2020 pp. 480
Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other by Eric Nelson, SUNY Press, 2020 pp. 480 Open
This is a number of reviews and responses to Eric S. Nelson's Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of Materials Other (2020) SUNY Press. This includes: The Relation of the Ethics of the Material Other to the Rights of the Stranger by Emilia Ang…
View article: Generativities: Western philosophy, Chinese painting, and the Yijing
Generativities: Western philosophy, Chinese painting, and the Yijing Open
Western philosophy has been defined through the exclusion of non-Western forms of thought as non-philosophical. In this paper, I place the notion of what is "properly" philosophy into question by contrasting the essence/appearance paradigm…
View article: Zhang Junmai’s Early Political Philosophy and the Paradoxes of Chinese Modernity
Zhang Junmai’s Early Political Philosophy and the Paradoxes of Chinese Modernity Open
This article examines the significance of reflexive self-critical modernity in the development of early “New Confucianism” by reconsidering the example of Zhang Junmai in the context of the May Fourth and New Culture Movements. Whereas the…
View article: Intercultural Philosophy and Intercultural Hermeneutics: A Response to Defoort, Wenning, and Marchal
Intercultural Philosophy and Intercultural Hermeneutics: A Response to Defoort, Wenning, and Marchal Open
Intercultural Philosophy and Intercultural Hermeneutics: A Response to Defoort, Wenning, and Marchal Eric S. Nelson (bio) I. Introduction Carine Defoort, Mario Wenning, and Kai Marchal offer three ways of engaging with Chinese and Buddhist…
View article: Willamette University Alumni Publication, 1982-09
Willamette University Alumni Publication, 1982-09 Open
School of Management's Executive-on-Campu-s program is designed to give students and faculty the oppor- tunity to meet with practicing experi- enced
View article: Back Cover: Aerogel Architectures Boost Oxygen‐Evolution Performance of NiFe<sub>2</sub>O<i>x</i> Spinels to Activity Levels Commensurate with Nickel‐Rich Oxides (ChemElectroChem 9/2016)
Back Cover: Aerogel Architectures Boost Oxygen‐Evolution Performance of NiFe<sub>2</sub>O<i>x</i> Spinels to Activity Levels Commensurate with Nickel‐Rich Oxides (ChemElectroChem 9/2016) Open
The Back Cover picture shows that activity for NiFe2Ox–catalyzed O2 evolution linearly tracks the surface area of the nanostructured oxide: aerogel > xerogel > precipitated nanopowder. More information can be found in the Full Paper by C. …
View article: Chung-Ying Cheng: Creativity, Ontogenerative Hermeneutics, and the Yijing
Chung-Ying Cheng: Creativity, Ontogenerative Hermeneutics, and the Yijing Open
The hermeneutical dimensions of Chinese philosophy from the Changes of Zhou (the Zhouyi 《周易》) through its Confucian, Daoist, and contemporary developments have been a creative inspirational source and guiding intellectual thread in the tho…
View article: Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Kim Iryŏp
Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Kim Iryŏp Open
Reviewed by: Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Kim Iryŏp Eric S. Nelson (bio) Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun. By Kim Iryŏp. Translated and with an introduction by Jin Y. Park. Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion. Honolul…
View article: Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly by Fabian Freyenhagen (review)
Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly by Fabian Freyenhagen (review) Open
Reviewed by: Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly by Fabian Freyenhagen Eric S. Nelson Fabian Freyenhagen. Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 285. Cloth, …
View article: MOIS Installation on NWEI Azura Half Scale WEC - WETS Testing Documentation
MOIS Installation on NWEI Azura Half Scale WEC - WETS Testing Documentation Open
This submission includes documentation on the Modular Ocean Instrumentation System (MOIS) installation on the Azura 1/2 scale wave energy converter at the Marine Station Kaneohe Bay (MCBH). Data from the deployment will be uploaded over th…
View article: MOIS LabVIEW Software
MOIS LabVIEW Software Open
Software developed in LabVIEW for the Modular Ocean Instrumentation System (MOIS) is provided. Two documents: MOIS User's Guide and MOIS Software Developer's Guide are included in the submission.