World Congress of Philosophy

World Congresses  /  24th World Congress of Philosophy  / Programme   The Programme in the printed Conference Book is based on the date at the time of printing. For the latest schedule with some updates, please go to our online programme below, where you can easily search and browse the programme, and generate the PDF programme (a zip file with PDFs for each day) There are three ways to use the online programme: 1.Vist https://wcp2018.sched.com / PDF programme of various formats can be exported here https://wcp2018.sched.com/print 2.You can try the global app of Sched. You need to search for WCP2018 in this app to load the schedule. The global apps of Sched have better compatibility. iOS: Search for Sched in the app store. Andriod: Download here 3.Alternatively, you can also try our WCP2018 apps: iOS: Search for WCP2018 in the app store. Andriod: Download here (When using in China the apps might first show a blank page for a while when loading). For help, see...

World Congresses  /  24th World Congress of Philosophy  / Welcome WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF FISP 24th World Congress of Philosophy Beijing 13-20 August 2018 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. 551BCE- c. 479 BCE) was, more or less, a contemporary of the early Greek sage Heraclitus (c. 535 BCE - 475BC...

World Congresses / 24th World Congress of Philosophy  Date: August 13(Monday)-August 20(Monday)2018 Organizers: International Federation of Philosophical Societies Tel：86-10-62755331 Venue: Peking University,Beijing,P.R.China Host: Chinese Organizing Committee of WCP 2018 Email：secretariat@wcp2018.pku.edu.cn The World Congress of Philosophy is organized every five years by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) in collaboration with one of its member societies. The XXIV World Congress will be held in Beijing, China, from August 13 to August 20, 2018, under the auspices of the Chinese Organizing Committee. The complementary aims of the 2018 Congress include an emphasis on exploring dimensions of the human and inquiring into the challenges facing humanity: To globalize philosophical investigations to encompass the diverse forms of philosophizing by past and present thinkers across cultures, with special attention to critical reflections on philosophy ...