46^th Annual KJSNA Meetings
2025

Spring 2025	Pacific	April 16 - 19, 2025 San Francisco, CA Westin St. Francis
Spring 2025	online	March 22, 2025

APA 98^th PACIFIC DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (San Francisco, California)

April 16 - 19, 2025

46^th Annual KJSNA Meetings

Thursday, April 17

6:00 - 8:00 pm

SESSION ONE

Perspectives on Jaspers and Gadamer, Heidegger, Kant

Chair: Jessica Ludescher Imanaka (Seattle University)

Presenters:

Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside)
Intention and Interpretation

Alexander Crist (Pensacola State College)
Communication and Conversation: The Importance of Language in Jaspers and Gadamer

Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside)
Kant's Copernican Revolution, the Beautiful as the Symbol of the Good, and the Parting of the Ways

Thursday, April 17

8:00 - 10:00 pm

SESSION TWO

Religion and Existentialism

Chair: Michael D. Stannard (Clovis Community College, Fresno)

Presenters:

Jessica Ludescher Imanaka (Seattle University)
Romano Guardini on Christian Interiority and Personalism

Eric R. Severson (Seattle University)
How Best to be Interrupted: Fear, Trembling, and Knives

VIRTUAL ONLINE MEETINGS

Saturday, March 22, 2025

SESSION ONE

Karl Jaspers and Plotinus

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 16:00 (GMT London), 17:00 (CET, Zurich),
21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

Chair: Claudia Luchetti (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Speakers:

Damian Caluori (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Karl Jaspers and an Apparent Contradiction in Plotinus' View of the Divine

Krishna Mani Pathak (Hindu College, University of Delhi, India)
Understanding Plotinus' Mysticism through Jaspers' Concept of Existenz and Śaṅkara's Concept of Pure Consciousness: A Meta-Ontological Approach

Ryan M. Brown (Phoenixville, PA)
Become the Logos That You Are: Plotinus Contra Jaspers on Mysticism and Rationality

Jörn W. Kroll (Petaluma, CA)
Thinking That Shatters Against The Unthinkable: Plotinus' Speculative Ascent According to Jaspers

Saturday, May 17, 2025

SESSION TWO

Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 16:00 (GMT London), 17:00 (CET, Zurich),
21:30 (SAST, Cape Town)

Chair: Michael A. Schwartz (Texas A&M School of Medicine)