World Congress of Philosophy

Endowed Lectures Ibn Roshd Lecture Turkish Philosophical Society Speaker: Hans Lenk (Germany) Kierkegaard Lecture Speaker: Vincent Delecroix (France) Maimonides Lecture FISP Speaker: Ernest Sosa (USA) Dasan Lecture Korean Philosophical Society Speaker: Keel Hee-sung (Korea) Wang Yangming Lecture Chinese Organizing Committee Chair: Chen, Lai (China) Speaker: Tu, Weiming (China) Simone de Beauvoir Lecture Fisp Committee on Gender Speaker: Judith Butler (USA) Special Public Lecture Chinese Organizing Committee Chair: Abdusalam Guseinov (Russia) Speaker: Jürgen Habermas (Germany) Bicentenary Marx Lecture Chair: Zhang, Yibin (China) Speaker: William L. McBride (USA)

Plenary Sessions 1. SELF Chair Vladislav Lektorski (Russia) Speakers Galen Strawson (USA) Sara Heinämaa (Finland) Ni, Liangkang (China) Theophilis Okere (Nigeria) 2. COMMUNITY Chair Abdoulaye Elimane Kane (Senegal) Speakers Roger T. Ames (USA) Obi Oguejiofor (Nigeria) Herta Nagl (Austria) Kunitake Ito (Japan) 3. NATURE Chair Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou (Greece) Speakers Guillermo Hurtado (Mexico) Sebastian Rödl (Germany) Osman Bakar (Malaysia) Yang, Guorong (China) 4. SPIRITUALITY Chair Han, Zhen (China) Speakers Bénézet Bujo (Congo/Switzerland) Hans-Julius Schneider (Germany) Richard Kearney (USA) 5. TRADITIONS Chair Karan Singh (India) Speakers Anne Cheng (France) Paulin J Hountondji (Benin) Zhao, Dunhua (China) Mercedes de la Garza (Mexico)

99 Contributed Papers 1. Aesthetics and philosophies of art Chairs Gerhard Seel (Switzerland) Curtis Carter (USA) Riccardo Dottori (Italy) Min Joosik (Korea) Ning, Xiaomeng (China) Zhu, Liangzhi (China) 2. African philosophy Chairs Joseph Agbakoba (Nigeria) Augustin Dibi (Ivory Coast) Wang, Jun (China) 3. Africana philosophy Chair Leonard Harris (USA) 4. Ancient Greek philosophy I. Presocratic philosophy Chairs Tomás Calvo Martínez (Spain) Andrei Lebedev (Grecce) Cheng, Wei (China) II. Classical Greek philosophy Chairs Vassilis Karasmanis (Greece) Nie, Minli (China) Noburu Notomi (Japan) Mauro Tulli (Italy) III. Hellenistic philosophy Chair Lin, Lijuan (China) IV. Neo-Platonic philosophy Chairs John Dillon (Ireland) Zhang, Xuefu (China) 5. Bioethics Chairs Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Denmark) Lourdes Velázquez (Mexico) Boris Yudin (Russia) Lei, Ruipeng (China) Sun, Muyi (China) Stavroula Tsinor...

Symposia 1.REN, UBUNTU, LOVE, AND THE  HEART Chair Pia Søltoft (Denmark) Speakers Graham Parkes (Austria) Zhang, Xianglong (China) Eleonore Stump (USA) 2. MIND, BRAIN, BODY,  CONSCIOUSNESS, EMOTIONS Chair Amita Chatterjee (India) Speakers Shaun Gallagher (USA) Jonardon Ganeri (United Arab Emirates) Zhang, Shiying (China) 3. PHILOSOPHY AT THE MARGINS:  DOMINATION, FREEDOM, AND  SOLIDARITY Chair Wu, Xiaoming (China) Speakers Charles-Romain Mbelé (Cameroon) Sally J. Scholz (USA) 4. RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITY, AND  JUSTICE Chair Bhuvan Chandel (India) Speakers Julian Nida-Ruemelin (Germany) Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Thailand) Yao, Xinzhong (China) Sally Haslanger (USA) 5. HUMAN, NON-HUMAN,  POST-HUMAN Chair Feng, Ziyi (China) Speakers Sangkyu Shin (Korea) Lars Fredrik Svendsen (Norway) Karen Barad (USA) 6. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND  THE ENVIRONMENT Chair Ilkka Ni...

Program at a Glance

HAO, PING PRESIDENT OF THE CHINESE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  LIN, JIANHUA PRESIDENT OF THE CHINESE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Founded in 1898, Peking University marks the beginning of modern higher education in China. On behalf of the Chinese Organizing Committee, we, as the presidents of PKU, the host institute for 24th World Congress of Philosophy, warmly welcome you, philosophers and lovers of philosophy from all over the world.  We invite you to one of the most memorable and significant cultural events for the love and pursuit of knowledge in PKU from August 13 - 20, 2018. In 1912, PKU founded the first philosophy department in China. At this very early phase, our predecessors decided to learn broadly from Western, Indian and Chinese philosophical traditions.  From the very outset, philosophizing in China is comprehensive and open toward the world, while at the same time deeply rooted in its own heritage. Modern Chinese philosophers are committed to the constru...

DERMOT MORAN PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES As President of FISP, and thereby as President of this Congress, it is my great honour and privilege to invite you to participate in the 24th World Congress of Philosophy, to be held, from August 13-20, 2018, on the campus of Peking University, with its beautiful lakeside walks around Weiming Lake, a former imperial garden. I am very pleased that the 24th World Congress is being hosted by China.  China has an impressively long history of philosophy and the cultivation of wisdom more generally and has made an enduring contribution to world heritage. One can think immediately of Confucius（孔 子）, Mencius（孟子）, Lao Tze（老子）, Chuang Tze（庄子）, Mo Tzu（墨子 ), Chu Hsi（朱熹）, and Wang Yang-ming（王阳明）. Confucius (c. 551B.C.E.- c. 479B.C.E.) was, more or less, a contemporary of the early Greek sage Heraclitus (c. 535B.C.E. - 475B.C.E.), but much more of Confucius’ sayings are preserved in the Analects, compile...

The 24th World Congress of Philosophy: Info

Tour Registration will start in March, 2018   The tour registration for the 24th World Congress of Philosophy (2018) will be opened on 5 th  March 2018. Participants can access to the online Registration system (will be published soon）to make tour reservation and payment. Here is the time schedule of tours: Beijing City Excursion Date Itinerary Aug, 14 Juyongguan Great Wall - Sacred Way– Chang   Ling Tomb - Bird's Nest (National Stadium) & Water Cube (National   Aquatics Center) Aug, 15 Tiananmen Square - National Museum of   China - Forbidden City Aug, 16 Mutianyu Great Wall  – Cloisonné Factory – 798 Art Zone Aug, 17 Summer Palace  – Temple of Heaven Aug, 18 Baiyun Temple – Lama Temple – Beijing Confucius Temple Aug, 19 Mutianyu Great Wall  – Cloisonné Factory – 798 Art Zone Aug, 20 Juyongguan Great Wall - Sacred Way– Chang   Ling Tomb - Bird's Nest (National St...