Beijing, 13 – 20 August 2018
Department of Philosophy, Peking University
ISCP WCP Program [August 14-15, 2018]
Day 1 (August 14, 2018)
ISCP Panel I: Innovative Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy, Session I
Thematic Comparative Philosophy on Early Confucianism
Time: 1:50 p.m.
- Puqun Li (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada): “Dwelling in Peace and Joy (an 安、le乐) in the Analects—Confucius’ Positive Psychology”
- May Sim (College of the Holy Cross, USA): “Wise Agents East & West: From Individual to Cosmic Agency”
- Kai Wang (Beijing Normal University, China): “Xunzi’s Notion of Self-cultivation in the Perspective of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics”
- Chi-Shing Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan): “Virtue Jurisprudence: Aristotelian Equity and Category of Xunzi”
ISCP Panel II: Innovative Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy, Session II
Through the Looking Glass of the Other
Time: 1:50 p.m.
- Douglas L. Berger (Leiden University, Netherlands):
Paramārtha / 真諦and Schopenhauer: A Case Study of Western Misrepresentations of Buddhism” - Roy Tseng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan): “Toward a Confucian Liberalism”
- Tzuli Chang (Fudan University, China): “A Confucian Response to Rawls’ Conception of Moral Persons”
- Carl Joseph Helsing (High Point University, North Carolina, U.S): “Language Games and Liberation: Linguistic Strategies of Utility, Therapy, and Creativity in the Zhuāngzi’s Inner Chapters”
ISCP Panel III: Innovative Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy, Session III
Comparative Philosophy in Context
Time: 1:50 p.m.
- Xinyan Jiang (University of Redlands, USA), “Comparing Chinese and Western Philosophy in Context”
- Yao-Cheng Chang (The University of Leuven, Belgium): “Standards of Argumentation: The Rising Importance of San Biao in Modern Mohist Studies”
- Rina Marie Camus (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong): “Is there Zhi 志 in Western Philosophy? An Asymmetric Comparison from East to West”
- Philipp Renninger (Cotutelle Universities of Lucerne (CH) and Freiburg (DE)): “Comparing Legal Philosophical Traditions in the Chinese and the German-speaking World”
ISCP Panel IV: Gender Studies, Women Issues, and Chinese Philosophy
Time: 1:50 p.m.
- Ranjoo Herr (Bentley University, USA): “Does A Feminist Future in East Asia Require Western Feminism?”
- Ann Pang-White (The University of Scranton, USA): “Female Chastity in the Yijing and Other Confucian Texts: Genealogy and Radicalization”
- Lili Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): “Revisit Yin-Yang Relation in the Yijing”
- Yuanfang Dai (Michigan State University, USA): “Rethinking Difference and Solidarity in Feminist Philosophy: Connecting East and West with a Chinese Transcultural Perspective”
Day 2 (August 15, 2018)
ISCP Panel V: “Rediscovering the Forgotten Chinese Philosophers” Session I
Time: 1:50 p.m.
How to Become a Philosopher: The Many Lives of Yang Zhu
- Carine Defoort (The University of Leuven, Belgium): “Unfounded and Unfollowed Mencius’s Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mo Di”
- Attilio Andreini (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy): “Beyond the Mengzi: Another Side of the Yang-Mo Symbol”
- Jongchul Park (The University of Leuven, Belgium): “The Ethical Features in Yang Zhu’s Philosophy Based on His Mingshi Theory(名實論)”
- Abigail Wang 王曉薇 (The University of Leuven, Belgium): “Republican Intellectuals on Yang Zhu: Mencius’ Critique on Yang and Mo Revisited (1903-1940)”
ISCP Panel VI: “Rediscovering the Forgotten Chinese Philosophers” Session II
Time: 1:50 p.m.
Wang Fuzhi’s Philosophy for the Contemporary World
- Liangjian Liu (East China Normal University, Shanghai, China), “A Moral Philosophy Based on the Doctrine of Vital Energy (Qi) and Affective Mindset (Xin): Wang Fuzhi’s Study of Mencius and Its Contemporary Significance”
- Dawid Rogacz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland): “Wang Fuzhi’s Philosophy of History — A Distinctive Form of Historical Materialism?”
- Tian Feng 田豐 (Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China), “The Significance of Wang Chuanshan’s Historical Cultivation to Modern Personality”
- Nicholas Brasovan (The University of Central Arkansas), “Ecological Humanism in the Philosophy of Wang Fuzhi”
- JeeLoo Liu (California State University-Fullerton, USA), “What Can We Learn from Wang Fuzhi’s Moral Sentimentalism?”
ISCP Panel VII: “Rediscovering the Forgotten Chinese Philosophers” Session III
Time: 1:50 p.m.
- Heawon Choi (University of British Columbia, Canada): “Misinterpreter or Reinterpreter? Zhi Dun and His Buddhist Philosophy Reconsidered.”
- Jinli He (Trinity University, USA): “Wang Guowei on Ziran”
- Rafal Banka (Jagiellonian University, Poland): “Li Zehou’s Philosophical Aesthetics and Consciousness”
- Yao-nan Zhang 張耀南 (Beihang University, China) and Shuang Qian 錢爽(Ghent University, Belgium): “Tetralogy of ZHANG Dong-sun’s Four Declarations of Knowledge and Logic”
ISCP Panel VIII: Relevance of Chinese Philosophy in the Modern World
Time: 1:50 p.m.
- Geir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland, Iceland): “Future Aging on Ancient Terms? Confucian Filiality and Senescence”
- Jaeyong Song (McMaster University, Canada): “‘Share and Rule’: The Implications of the Fengjian Discourse for the Modern World”
- Guo Wu (Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, USA): “Ontology of Sensibilities: How Can Chinese Philosophy Influence the Modern World?”
- Chi-Fang Tseng (Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan): “Buddhism Approach to Differentiation in the Modern World”