World Congress of Philosophy

Reservations and Registration, hotels and flights. The XXIV World Congress has been cooperating with Ctrip, a leading hotel booking service center in China, to establish an online hotel booking system for the Congress. Carefully-selected hotels around the Congress venue or with convenient transportation will be included in the system, and reservations can be made since the second half of the year 2017. Please stay tuned for latest details. All rooms will be booked on a first come, first served basis; due to the peak of tourists in Beijing during August, early reservations are highly recommended. Otherwise, we may not be able to secure further reservations with these hotels once they’re are fully occupied. The hotel booking system now is under service. Please book via: PC-side:  http://mice.ctrip.com/hotel/events/67?lan=en Mobile-side: Some of the hotels that will be available on the hotel booking system are as follows . Hotel Star Rating Price Distance from PKU Near S...

Reservations and Registration, hotels and flights. Tours City excursions in Beijing and theme tours outside Beijing will be offered during, before and after the Congress. For detailed arrangements, prices and instructions about the tour, please refer to the information below.  How to book the tour: Please visit the Tour Registration system  http://meeting.yizhifubj.com.cn/web/main.action?meetingId=408  to make the reservation and complete your payment online (all charges will be made in  RMB ). Since onsite registration is unaccepted, we kindly advise you to book your tour before the following deadlines. Note: 1.The registration deadline of Theme Tours outside Beijing will be June 30, 2018, and for the City Excursion, it will be July 31, 2018. 2.Either the Theme Tours outside Beijing or City Excursions might be cancelled or price fluctuations might be caused if less than 30 people register for the line. Tour itineraries are tentative and subject to objectiv...

Reservations and Registration, hotels and flights. Air China Flight Reservation is online  Air China（A Star Alliance Member） will offer Conferences & Meetings programs for the Beijing 2018 “XXIV World Congress of Philosophy ( WCP 2018)”. Please refer below for details on how to take advantage of the discount offerings for congress delegates. The negotiated discounted fares are valid for international or regional Air China operated OW/RT flights to Beijing, and are available to participants, visitors, invited guests, and employees of the contracting partners and their companions travelling between August 3rd and August 30th. First, the participants have registered and paid successfully can log in  2018WCP Registration System  to get the promotion code, then click Air China's website  (www.airchina.com)  to enter the promotion code. Air China Manual   click here to download   . Air China Hotline: 95583（China Toll free number） ...

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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...