Welcome to the XXV World Congress of Philosophy
XXV World Congress of Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY ACROSS BOUNDARIES
ROME, 1-8 AUGUST, 2024
XXV CONGRESSO MONDIALE DI FILOSOFIA
LA FILOSOFIA ATTRAVERSA I CONFINI
XXVE CONGRÈS MONDIAL DE PHILOSOPHIE
LA PHILOSOPHIE AU-DELÀ DES FRONTIÈRES
XXV. WELTKONGRESS FÜR PHILOSOPHIE
PHILOSOPHIE ÜBER GRENZEN HINWEG
XXV ВСЕМИРНЫЙ ФИЛОСОФСКИЙ КОНГРЕСС
ФИЛОСОФИЯ ВНЕ ГРАНИЦ
XXV CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE FILOSOFIA
LA FILOSOFÍA A TRAVÉS DE LOS LÍMITES
第二十五届世界哲学大会
跨越边界的哲学
المؤتَمَر العَالَمي الرّابع والعشرون للفلسفة
عبر الحدود الفلسفة
Philosophy across Boundaries is the general theme of the 25th World Congress of Philosophy, that will be held in Rome, Italy, from August 1st to August 8th, 2024.
Under the joint responsibility of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies, the Italian Philosophical Society, and Sapienza University of Rome, the 25th World Congress intends to foster scholarly and public reflections on the future of our societies. By questioning human beings and their diverse ways of thinking, agency, and relationships, along with the social, economic, political, technological, and cultural destiny of our common world, it will:
Use philosophical reflections as a springboard for public discourses on urgent shared concerns, including inequalities, cultural and gender diversity, natural environment, justice, rights, and political transformations on a global scale;
Enlarge the scope of philosophical debates to involve representatives of the sciences, economy, information, medicine and public health, technology, and public institutions;
Actively encourage and defend diversity in all forms by bringing together ideas, traditions, and people from all continents and regions;
Dismantle rigid cultural and disciplinary boundaries by focusing on the complex interconnectedness of human civilizations from antiquity to the present.
The 2024 Congress invites shared reflections and discussions on the models we would like our societies to be inspired by. It encourages large participation of students and young scholars from all continents and regions. It will provide a unique opportunity to present and share diverse philosophical concerns from all regions of the world. Finally, it is committed to pluralism and it aims at engaging reflectively and critically with the struggles of our time, addressing its main ethical, social, political, and spiritual concerns.
We intend to hold the whole Congress in presence.
The Congress will focus on five Spheres of Boundaries, each of which will include one Plenary Session and two Symposia. There will also be eighty-nine Sections for Contributed Papers, Endowed lectures, Special lectures, Round tables, Invited sessions, Society sessions, and Student sessions.
The Organizing Committee wishes the Congress to be preceded by preparatory events, meetings, conferences. To organize a cultural event under the auspices of the 25th World Congress of Philosophy, please send a request to secretariat@wcprome2024.com
SPHERES OF BOUNDARIES
PERSONAE
Plenary session
Symposia
EMBODIMENTS
WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER KINDS OF MINDS
TRANSITIONS
Plenary session
Symposia
VULNERABILITY AND KNOWLEDGE
CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
TRANSLATION, IMAGINATION, INTERDISCIPLINARITY
JUSTICE
Plenary session
Symposia
CITIZENSHIP, CARE, AND SELF-DETERMINATION
EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE , POWER, AND STRUGGLE
TRUST, TRUTH, AND KNOWLEDGE
EARTH
Plenary session
Symposia
LIVING IN A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
BIODIVERSITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
ETHICS AND THE LIVING BEINGS
INFINITY
Plenary session
Symposia
EMPTINESS AND EXPERIENCE
BEAUTY, GLAMOUR, AND GRACE
TEMPORALITY AND AGENCY
SECTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPER
1. Aesthetics and Philosophies of Art
2. African Philosophy
3. Africana Philosophy
4. Bioethics and Medical Ethics
5. Buddhist Philosophy
6. Chinese Philosophy
7. Christian Philosophy
8. Comparative, Intercultural, and Cross-Cultural Philosophy
9. Confucian Philosophy
10. Contemporary Philosophy
11. Daoist Philosophy
12. East Asian and South-East Asian Philosophies
13. Economic Philosophy and Business Ethics
14. Environmental Philosophy and Sustainability
15. Ethics
16. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
17. Experimental Philosophy
18. Feminist Philosophy
19. Games Theory
20. Gender and Queer Philosophy
21. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Philosophy
22. Hermeneutics
23. History of Analytic Philosophy
24. History of Philosophy
25. Human Rights
26. Indian Philosophies
27. Intersectionality
28. Islamic Philosophy
29. Italian Philosophical Traditions
30. Jewish Philosophy
31. Latin-American Philosophy
32. Logic and Philosophy of Logic
33. Marxist Philosophy
34. Medical Humanities and Philosophy of Medicine
35. Medieval Philosophy
36. Metaethics
37. Metaphilosophy
38. Metaphysics
39. Mystical Traditions in Philosophy
40. Moral Psychology
41. Ontology
42. Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
43. Philosophical Anthropology
44. Philosophical Counseling and Practices
45. Philosophical Issues about Race
46. Philosophy, Film, and TV Series
47. Philosophy and Literature
48. Philosophy and Oral Traditions
49. Philosophy and Popular Culture
50. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
51. Philosophy of Action
52. Philosophy of Aging
53. Philosophy of Argumentation
54. Philosophy of Birth
55. Philosophy of Childhood
56. Philosophy of Cognitive Neurosciences
57. Philosophy of Culture
58. Philosophy of Death
59. Philosophy of Dwelling
60. Philosophy of Education
61. Philosophy of Food
62. Philosophy of Globalization and Migrations
63. Philosophy of History
64. Philosophy of Indigenous Cultures
65. Philosophy of Information and Digital Culture
66. Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
67. Philosophy of Law
68. Philosophy of Liberation
69. Philosophy of Mathematics
70. Philosophy of Mind
71. Philosophy of Music and the Performing Arts
72. Philosophy of Physics
73. Philosophy of Religion
74. Philosophy of Science
75. Philosophy of Sexuality
76. Philosophy of Sport
77. Philosophy of Technology
78. Philosophy of the Human and Social Sciences
79. Philosophy of the Life Sciences
80. Philosophy of Values
81. Philosophy with Children
82. Political Philosophy
83. Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy
84. Russian Philosophy
85. Social Epistemology
86. Social Philosophy
87. Teaching Philosophy
88. Theories of Knowledge and Epistemology
89. Utopia
ENDOWED LECTURES
There will be at least seven endowed lectures:
IBN ROSHD by the Turkish Philosophical Society
MAIMONIDES by FISP
KIERKEGAARD by the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen
DASAN by the Korean Philosophical Society
WANG YANGMING by Peking University
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR by the Gender Committee of FISP
KANT by the Kant-Gesellschaft
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Paper shall be submitted through the website of the Congress using the form at the link….
Only in exceptional circumstances papers can be submitted as an electronic version by attachment to an e-mail message addressed to the Italian Organizing Committee submitpaper@wcprome2024.com
Submissions should not exceed 1800 words (or 3000 characters for papers submitted in Chinese) and be accompanied by a max 200-word abstract (500 characters in Chinese), and max 5 keywords (in alphabetical order).
Submissions should clearly indicate the section for which the paper is intended and shall be written in one of the official languages of the Congress.
The Organizing Committee reserves the right to accept or reject papers on the basis of scholarly quality. Only papers of a philosophical nature will be considered for inclusion in the program.
PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS AND ROUND TABLES
Proposals are invited for round tables and panels on specific topics. They should be sent to the following address submitpaper@wcprome2024.com. Round tables would usually include speakers from at least three different countries and are subject to the approval of the Steering Committee of FISP. All panelists shall be registered for the Congress.
Specific panels may be considered as Invited Sessions upon proposal by Steering Committee members.
STUDENT SESSIONS
The Steering Committee of FISP, the Italian Organizing Committee, and the International Programme Committee are encouraging the participation of students by inviting proposals for student sessions, panels, and workshops. Student sessions and panels will be chaired by senior philosophers from all continents. To submit proposals, please email secretariat@wcprome2024.com
SESSIONS OF MEMBER SOCIETIES OF FISP
Member societies of FISP that wish to hold meetings during the Congress are kindly requested to apply to the President of FISP no later than February 1st, 2024. The number of sessions organized by each member society may be subject to limitations.
IMPORTANT DATES
November 1st, 2023 is the deadline for submitting contributed papers and for proposals for round tables, workshops, and student sessions. Papers and proposals received after this deadline, but before February 1st, 2024, may be accepted depending on availability.
REGISTRATION
€ 200 for early registration prior to October 1st, 2023.
€ 225 for registration until January 31st, 2024.
€ 250 for registration from February 1st, 2024.
€ 100 for accompanying persons
€ 50 for students
For details about registration and the cancellation policy, see the website at wcprome2024.com
Info: wcp2024registration@thetriumph.com
ACCOMMODATION, TRAVEL, AND SOCIAL PROGRAM
Accommodation, travel info, social program will be announced later.
INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY BOOK FAIR
An International Philosophy Book Fair will take place during the Congress. Further information and conditions for publishers to apply will be announced later.
For further information and assistance, please contact:
wcp2024rome@thetriumph.com for general questions about accommodation
wcp2024booking@thetriumph.com for hotel booking
Welcome to the
XXV World Congress of Philosophy
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Welcome message from the President of FISP
It is particularly auspicious for the 25th World Congress of Philosophy to take place in Rome. Few other places would as strikingly illustrate the theme of the Congress, “Philosophy across Boundaries”, as this city does through its unique historical heritage. Rome is not just a spectacular setting: it embodies a distinctive cosmopolitan ideal, the spirit of a civilization that remarkably chose the story of a refugee, Aeneas, drifting on a raft in the Mediterranean to seek asylum on the coast of Latium, as its founding myth.
The decision that Rome would host the next World Congress of Philosophy was taken in the dark days of the Covid-19 pandemic. While the social, economic, political, technological, and cultural destiny of our common world was deeply questioned, as it continues to be, the Italian Philosophical Society, Sapienza University, and the Italian philosophical community at large joined hands to provide us – philosophers from all corners of the world – with an actual hope of keeping our long-lasting tradition alive.
A glance at the plenary program of the Congress should reveal a shared attempt to embed theoretical reflections in the lived reality of our time. Leading scholars of diverse backgrounds will discuss pressing ethical, social, and spiritual issues; they will challenge rigid disciplinary demarcations; and they will address urgent public concerns such as inequalities, cultural and gender diversity, sustainability, rights, and political transformations on a global scale.
The design of the overall program is informed by an unrelenting commitment to diversity of all kinds. Through its 89 sections for submitted papers and a foreseeably significant number of panels proceeding from all areas of philosophy, the Congress will bring together scholars with diverse concerns and ideas from all continents and regions, and it will provide a platform to philosophically reflect on and exchange those ideas in ways that we hope will prove to be fruitful and durable. You are warmly invited to submit proposals either for individual communications or for round tables of your choice: in all cases, the spirit of Rome invites us to think across national and political divides, to overcome cultural delimitations, and to shift our gaze from our own traditions to the complex interweaving of human civilizations from antiquity to today.
In addition to established academics and lovers of philosophy, the Congress considers students and young scholars as vital participants. We hope that students will be able to establish contact and exchange their views with international scholars, that they will be able to foster durable friendships, scholarly as well as personal, and that the Congress may become the seeding ground of new philosophical networks. It is our hope that their experience at the Congress will enable them to regard the world as their home, to live in it with a deep sensitivity for other forms of reasoning, other points of view, and other habits. For the present, more than ever before, familiarity with a plurality of perspectives is critical for ensuring full freedom of choice and full citizenship to the next generations.
For all these reasons, it is our great honor to invite you to participate in the 25th World Congress of Philosophy, from August 1-8, 2024, in the breathtaking scenery of Rome – a Congress that we hope would become a historic opportunity for philosophical communities worldwide to assert the continuing importance of philosophical thinking in the public sphere. We look forward to welcoming you.
Luca Maria Scarantino
President
International Federation of Philosophical Societies
Welcome message from the Rectress of Sapienza University of Rome
It is with great pleasure and satisfaction that I address this message of welcome to you, confident that the forthcoming 25th World
Congress of Philosophy will be a unique and rich opportunity to develop a global, wide-ranging and intellectually profound debate on the most relevant topics in contemporary philosophical debate. These topics will also be approached by interweaving them with other forms of knowledge and other disciplines – which is to say, in a genuinely and fruitfully interdisciplinary spirit.
From the outset, Sapienza University of Rome has enthusiastically welcomed the proposal to hold this World Congress in Rome for the first time in its long history. The University’s resources will be mobilised to ensure the success of the event, with a view to welcoming thousands of scholars from all over the world. In addition to the Campus’ openness to the proposal, I must mention the opportunity which the Congress offers the city of Rome – with its unique landmarks and attractions – to play the privileged role of host, and thus to serve as a kind of crossroads for different philosophical perspectives on the world and on the increasingly pressing and fraught issues that have affected it in recent years.
In close organisational collaboration with the International Federation of Philosophical Societies and the Italian Philosophical Society, Sapienza intends to act once again as a compelling catalyst for the most advanced intellectual perspectives, constantly striving to ensure a solid basis for research and free discussion, so as to promote and affirm a widespread and profitable culture of inclusion and international collaboration.
More specifically, the possibility of promoting the capacity of philosophy – in all its different and complementary forms – to provide a privileged perspective on the complexity of the world and the challenges that still await us, in view of better global relations, is an objective fully in line with the University’s policy of supporting all efforts to cross borders, not least to overcome the sterile division or opposition between humanistic culture and scientific culture. We are confident that what we will witness is the realisation of an integrated and integral form of knowledge that does not omit any of the problems which we are called upon to solve.
Antonella Polimeni
Rectress
Sapienza University of Rome
Welcome message from the Secretary-general of FISP
Dear Colleagues and friends in Philosophy,
It is my honor and pleasure to welcome you all to the 25th World Congress of Philosophy. It marks a dream of global philosophical collaboration, perhaps the most ambitious of its kind. The audacity of inviting you all to a world congress of philosophy has been sustained for a century by devoted members in philosophical communities from every region of the world, who respond to the challenge to give their commitment and dedication to this opportunity, especially during this time of troubling uncertainty and crippling anxiety.
The Theme of “Philosophy Across Boundaries” was decided in Mostar in May 2019, several months before the onslaught of the pandemic which has gripped the world in the past years. It seems that all the isolation, physical or emotional, all the fear and trembling which have attacked all our lives on the global scale point to the timeliness of rethinking our different spheres of existence which need fresh and bold reflections. Our rules of thoughts, our norms of conduct, our familiar habitat of bodily existence, our lively imagination of the infinite are facing fierce new challenges which philosophy of all persuasions need to address. The “inclusive togetherness” of a World Congress of Philosophy will be a crucial opportunity for all of us to come together, to think, to empathize and hopefully to understand each other better in such turbulent times.
Since the Antiquity, Rome has been connected to distant worlds and civilizations through maritime and land trades and cultural exchanges. In our last WCP in Beijing, we acutely learned that doing philosophy in this century can no longer afford to tolerate the time-worn philosophic divides between East and West, Ancient and Modern, Europe and the Rest, to name just a few. From this perspective, Rome is the perfect venue for the 25th World Congress, as Rome has always been a crossroads of the world, and in 2024, Rome is again, inviting all peoples from every region of the globe into her embrace. I believe that this 25th World Congress of Philosophy will be another gem among the treasure troves of FISP as well as the global philosophical communities, and beyond. We hope to help make better sense for the human and non-human condition in this volatile and vulnerable century.
As Secretary-general of FISP, I offer my deep appreciation of the Sapienza University of Rome and of the Italian Philosophical Society for taking up the torch in hosting the 25th Congress. Special thanks go to each and every one of you who takes up the challenge to join us in August 2024.
Thank you
Suwanna Satha-Anand
Secretary-general
International Federation of Philosophical Societies
Welcome message from the President of IOC
Dear Colleagues and Friends in Philosophy,
I am particularly glad and excited to welcome you all. The occasion allowing us to come together around the ideal table of philosophical
discussion is the upcoming World Congress of Philosophy, the 25th, which for the first time will be held in Rome. It will be hosted by the Campus of Sapienza University, the largest university in Europe, with the direct involvement of the Italian Philosophical Society, which I have the honour of presiding over.
The event that we are planning through the shared effort of the Italian philosophical community certainly serves a powerful and lofty aim: as is clearly shown by the title of the Congress, “Philosophy Across Boundaries”, the ultimate goal is to create the conditions for a profound and fruitful exchange between all those who study, practise and are interested in philosophy, by overcoming all barriers, distinctions, differences and obstacles, and putting aside old and no longer acceptable contrasts between North and South, East and West. The perspective from which to approach philosophy will therefore be marked by the desire to include, give voice to, and make the most of every possible glimpse on past reality, today’s reality, and future developments, based on an awareness of the difficulties that have marked recent years and of the global challenges still remaining to be faced.
From this perspective, one of the driving elements of the Congress will be its staunchly inter- and multidisciplinary approach. As we can see from the Programme, which has already been defined in its basic outline, the exercising of philosophy during this event will not be characterised by this or that ‘parochial’ view, but rather by a spirit of openness to the healthy interplay between different disciplines, which will be set in constant interaction and dialogue with the more strictly philosophical approach.
This inclusive broadening of perspectives is a task that so-called ‘professional’ philosophers from all over the world will be called upon to fulfil, together with scholars working in other fields of knowledge. In addition, special room will be devoted to the participation of young people, who are also laying a solid foundation for their cultural education by engaging with the most relevant philosophical strands within the international community.
Finally, I should note the historical and cultural significance of the place where the Congress will be held: Rome will once again serve as a crossroads for a fruitfully diverse range of voices. By welcoming people from all over the world, the city will provide an outstanding stage where to present and discuss one’s own views and proposals, one’s own peculiar and unique approach to the world – beyond and without borders.
Thank you
Emidio Spinelli
President
Italian Organizing Committee
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