Conference Schedule
Venues of meetings:
Keynote lectures are held in LT3, the Y.C. Cheng Lecture Theatre
on Level 5 of the Science Tower on the Ho Sin Hang (“old”) campus of HKBU.
Concurrent sessions are held
on Level 1 of the Jockey Club Academic Community Centre (ACC), Baptist
University Road campus, except that the second (“B”) sessions on Saturday the
23rd will be held in the Revd James Mou Memorial Chapel (“G9”) on
the same campus, behind the ACC building.
WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
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5:00-6:30pm |
Registration
(Science Tower Podium, HKBU, Ho Sin Hang campus) |
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6:30-7:00pm |
Opening
Ceremony (in LT3): Welcoming speeches by Prof.
Tsoi Ah Chung, Vice-President, Research and Institutional Advancement, HKBU and
Dr. Michael Müller-Verweyen, Director, Goethe-Institut Hongkong |
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7:00-9:00pm |
First Keynote Address (in LT3), Chaired by Lauren Pfister (Department of Religion and
Philosophy, HKBU) Cheng Chung-ying,
Professor (University of Hawaii), “Incorporating Good Will: On Ren (仁) as Perfect Duty” Respondents: Hans Feger
(Free University of Berlin, Germany) and Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University
of HK) |
THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
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Session A (in room ACC109) |
Session B (in room ACC105) |
Session C (in room ACC104) |
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Session
I |
A.
Kantian Personhood & Chinese Logic Chair: Chris Firestone (Trinity Intl University) |
B.
Personal Unity in the First Critique
(I) Chair: Neven Sesardic (Lingnan University) |
C.
Personal Unity in the Third Critique
Chair: Eva Man (HKBU) |
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9:00- 9:30am |
1.
Lee Seung-kee (Drew University, USA), “Logical
Determination and Self- determination in Kant's Critical Philosophy” |
1. Robert Greenberg (Brandeis University, USA), “A Neglected Proposition of Identity” |
1. Ulrich Seeberg (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany), “Kant and the Unity of Reason” |
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9:30- 10:00am |
2.
Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University, USA), “Kant,
the A Priori, and Chinese Logic” |
2. Christine Lopes (University of Southampton, UK), “Beyond Truth and Falsehood: The Kantian Concept of
Imagination” |
2. Bart Vandenabeele (Ghent University, Belgium), “Common Sense and Community in Kant's Theory
of Taste” |
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10:00- 10:30am |
3.
Stephen R. Palmquist (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong), “The Unity of Architectonic Reasoning in Kant
and I Ching” |
Refreshment break |
Refreshment break |
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10:30-11am |
Group photo &
refreshment break |
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Session
II |
A.
The Theoretical Duality of Personhood Chair: Lauren Pfister ( HKBU) |
B.
Kant and Buddhism on Personhood Chair: David Palmer (University of HK) |
C.
Personhood and Political Community Chair: Hektor Yan (City University of HK) |
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11:00- 11:30am |
1.
Anita Leirfall (University of Life Sciences & University of Oslo,
Norway), “Kant on the Dialectic between
Subject and Space” |
1.
Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong), “What is Personhood? Kant and Huayan Buddhism” |
1.
Bernhard Jakl (University of Munster & Ludwig-Maximilians University,
Germany), “Human Dignity and Innate Right to
Freedom in National and International Law” |
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11:30am- 12:00pm |
2.
Ulrich Fritz Wodarzik (University of Applied Sciences Worms, Germany), „Kants Logik des Menschseins - Zur transklassischen
Logik basierend auf der Dupliziät der Subjektivität“ |
2.
Emer O'Hagan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), “Kant and Buddha on Self-Knowledge” |
2.
Chen Jau-hwa (Soochow University, Taiwan), “Personhood
and Statehood in Kant's Philosophy” |
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12:00- 12:30pm |
3.
Xie Xia-ling (Fudan University, China), “論康德人的存在二重性”
(“On Kant's Duplicity of Human Being”) |
3.
David Cummiskey (Bates College, USA), “Competing
Conceptions of the Self in Kantian and Buddhist Moral Theories” |
3.
Monique Castillo (University of Paris XII, France), “Kant's Notion of Perfectibility: a Condition of
World-Citizenship” |
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12:30-2pm |
Lunch
at Renfrew Seafood Restaurant (2/F, David Lam Building, HKBU) |
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Session
III |
A.
Autonomy and the Cognition of Personal Unity Chair: Wayne Cristaudo (University of HK) |
B.
Moral Community and the Public Use of Reason Chair: Richard Lee (HKBU) |
C.
The Cognition of Selfhood in Theoretical Philosophy Chair: Yao Zhihua (Chinese University of HK) |
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2:00- 2:30pm |
1.
Susan Shell (Boston College, USA), “Kant on
Autonomy and Unity of the Person” |
1.
Axel Gelfert (National University of Singapore), “Communicability and the Misuse of Public Reason:
Kant on the Pathologies of Testimony” |
1.
Gregg Osborne (Washington and Jefferson College, USA), “The Active Role of the Self in Kant's First
Analogy” |
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2:30- 3:00pm |
2.
Rainer Enskat (University of Halle, Germany), “The
Cognitive Dimension of Freedom as Autonomy” |
2.
Stijn Van Impe (Ghent University, Belgium), “Kant's
Realm of Ends: A Communal Moral Practice as Locus for the Unity of Moral
Personhood” |
2.
Andrew Brook (Carleton University, Canada), “Kant's
Attack on the Amphibolies of Locke and Leibniz” |
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3:00- 3:30pm |
3.
Kim Soo Bae (Chungnam National University, South Korea), „Menschliche Autonomie als Aufgabe – der Autonomiebegriff in
der Geschichtsphilosophie Kants“ |
3.
Kiyoshi Himi (Suzuka International University, Japan), “Kant's Idea of Moral Community and Albert
Schweitzer's Humanitarian Awareness” |
3.
Lau Chong-fuk (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), “The Problem of Self-Cognition in Kant's
Transcendental Philosophy” |
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3:30- 4:00pm |
4.
Jens Timmermann (Department of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews, and Clare Hall,
Cambridge, UK), “Autonomy, Personality and
Moral Regard for Ends” |
Refreshment break |
Refreshment break |
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Session IV |
A.
The Orientation of Personhood Chair: Neven Sesardic (Lingnan University) |
B.
Kant and Chinese Philosophy Chair: Michael Martin (University of HK) |
C.
Personhood in Freedom & Subjectivity Chair: Jörn Boost (HKBU, retired) |
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4:00- 4:30pm |
Refreshment break |
1.
Eric Nelson (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), “The Human and the Sublime in Kant and the
Zhuangzi” |
1.
Douglas R. McGaughey (Willamette University, USA), “The Unity of Personhood and Freedom” |
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4:30- 5:00pm |
1.
Takayuki Kisaka (Kokushikan University, Japan), “Human Personhood between Moral Law and Cultural
Values” |
2.
Rein Vos (Maastricht University, Netherlands), “Doing
Good or Right? – Kant's Critique on Confucius Regarding Personhood, Autonomy
and Humanity amongst Rulers and their Executives in Society” |
2.
Byron Kaldis (The Hellenic Open University, Greece), “‘Medius Terminus': Personhood between
Subjectivity and Naturalism” |
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5:00- 5:30pm |
2.
Claude Piché (University of Montreal, Canada), “The
Felt Need of Reason in Kant's Was
heisst: sich im Denken orientieren?” |
3.
Michael Thompson (Univeristy of South Florida, USA), “Antinomic Mereologies: Empirical and
Transcendental Personhood in Kant, Confucius and Lao Tzu” |
3.
Adriano Naves de Brito (Unisinos University, Brazil), “Freedom and Value in Kant” |
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5:30- 6:00pm |
3.
Nils Röller (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland), “Thinking with Instruments: The Example of Kant's
Compass” |
4.
Mario Wenning (University of Macau, Macau & University of Frankfurt,
Germany), “Kant and Chinese Philosophy on
Nothingness” |
4.
Courtney David Fugate (The American University in Cairo, Egypt), “The
Difference between Subjectivity and Individuality in Kant's Moral Philosophy” |
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6:00-7pm |
Walk
from “new” campus to “old” campus [see map] for light refreshments on Science
Tower Podium |
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7:00- 9:00pm |
Second Keynote Address (in LT3), Chaired by Stephen Palmquist
(Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU) Patricia
Kitcher, Mark van Doren Professor of Humanities (Columbia Univ.), “Kant’s
Spontaneous Thinker and (More) Spontaneous Agent” Respondents:
Jens Timmerman (Univ. of St Andrews, and Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK) and Kwan
Tze-wan (Chinese University of HK) |
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FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
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Session A (in room ACC109) |
Session B (in room ACC105) |
Session C (in room ACC104) |
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Session
V |
A.
Personhood in Metaphysics of Morals
Chair: Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews, and Clare
Hall, Cambridge) |
B.
The Suitability of Kant for Asia Chair: Chan Sze Chi (HKBU) |
C.
Personhood as Experienced Chair: Alexandra Cook (University of HK) |
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9:00- 9:30am |
1.
Stefano Papa (University of Vienna, Austria), „Umfang und Inhalt des Begriffs
Person in der Rechtslehre (Metaphysische
Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre)“ |
1.
Simon Shengjian Xie (University of Melbourne, Australia) , “Is Kant a Western Philosopher?” |
1.
Peter Schröder (University College London, UK), “'Irgend ein Vertrauen ... muss ... übrig
bleiben' – The Idea of Trust in Kant's Moral Philosophy” |
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9:30- 10:00am |
2.
Katsutoshi Kawamura, (University of Kwanseigakuin, Nishinomiya, Japan), „Die Person als gesetzgebendes Wesen“ |
2.
Alain-Marc Rieu (University of Lyon & Institute of East-Asian Study,
France), “The Kantian Model: Confucianism and
the Modern Divide” |
2.
Cynthia Schossberger (Illinois State University, USA), “Human Persons in Kant's Realm of Ends” |
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10:00- 10:30am |
3.
Günter Zöller (University of Munich, Germany), “Autocracy: The Psycho-Politics of Self-Rule in
Plato and Kant” |
Refreshment break |
Refreshment break |
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Session
VI |
A.
Kant on Asia Chair: Alexandra Cook (University of HK) |
B.
Treating Human Persons as Ends Chair: Patrick Hawley (University of HK) |
C.
Kant and Islamic Philosophy Chair: Richard Lee (HKBU) |
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10:30- 11:00am |
Refreshment break |
1.
Li Hon-Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), “Kant’s Formula of Humanity and General Deterrence:
The Relevance of The Queen vs. Dudley
and Stephens” |
1.
Hossain Kalbasi (Allameh Tabatabaie University, Iran), “Kant's Dialectique
and its Solution in Islamic Philosophy” |
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11:00- 11:30am |
1.
Peter K.J. Park (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA), “The Exclusion of Asia from the History of
Philosophy: Is Kant Responsible?” |
2.
Vasil Gluchman (Presov University, Slovakia), “Kant and Virtuous Action: A Case of Humanity” |
2.
Hamidreza Ayatollahy (Allameh Tabatabaie University, Iran), “Kant on Categories of Concept Compared with Mulla
Sadra on Secondary the Intelligibles” |
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11:30am- 12:00pm |
2.
Stefan Groß (Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany), „Der Begriff der Glückseligkeit bei Konfuzius –
Kritische Anmerkungen zu Kants China-Bild“ |
3.
Predrag Cicovacki (College of the Holy Cross, USA), “Respect for the Moral Law as Respect for
Persons” |
3.
Roman Seidel (University of Zurich, Switzerland), “The Reception of Kantian Philosophy in Iran and
its Significance for Western Kant Studies” |
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12:00- 12:30pm |
3.
Klaus-Gerd Giesen (University of Auvergne, France), “Asian Hospitality in Kant's Cosmopolitan Law” |
4.
Makoto Suzuki (Nanzan University, Japan), “Respect
for Persons as the Unifying Moral Ideal” |
4.
Mohsen Abhari Javadi (The University of Qom, Iran), “The Autonomy of Moral Agent in Kant's Ethics and
Its Rejection in Contemporary Islamic Literature” |
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12:30-3:30pm |
Buffet
lunch at R66 (Hopewell Centre, Wanchai) |
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Session
VII |
A.
Kant and Confucian Ethics Chair: P.J. Ivanhoe (City University of HK) |
B.
Kant and Schelling on Conditions of Personhood Chair: Kwok-ying Lau (Chinese University of HK) |
C.
Educating the Person Chair: Marina Wong (Dept. of Education Studies, HKBU) |
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3:30- 4:00pm |
1.
Christian Helmut Wenzel (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), “Aesthetics and Morality in Kant and Confucius” |
1.
Hans Feger (Free University of Berlin, Germany), “Kant's Idea of Autonomy as the Basis for
Schelling's Theology of Freedom” |
1.
Ko Dae-hyuk (GyeongIn National University of Education, South Korea), “Kantian and Chu Hsi's Concept of Moral Autonomy in
Pedagogical Perspective” |
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4:00- 4:30pm |
2.
A.T. Nuyen (National University of Singapore, Singapore), “The Kantian Good Will and the Confucian Sincere
Will” |
2.
Wong Kwok-kui ( Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong), “Kant and Schelling on Subjective and Objective Time” |
2.
Scott R. Stroud (University of Texas-Pan American, USA), “Desire and the Project of Moral Cultivation: Kant
and Xunzi on the Inclinations” |
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4:30-4:50pm |
Refreshment break |
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Session
VIII |
A.
Personhood in Cultural Context Chair: Lauren Pfister (HKBU) |
B.
Kant and Other Asian Traditions Chair: Guy Lown (HK Philosophy Cafe) |
C.
Personal Unity in the First Critique
(II) Chair: Chris Firestone (Trinity Intl University) |
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4:50- 5:20pm |
1.
Marc Rölli (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany), „Person und Charakter in Kants ,Anthropologie in
pragmatischer Hinsicht‘“ |
1.
Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), “Kant and Vasubandhu on the 'Transcendent
Self'” |
1.
Julian Wuerth (University of Cincinnati, USA), “The
First Paralogism, its Origin, and its Evolution: Kant on How the Soul Both Is
and Is Not a Substance” |
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5:20- 5:50pm |
2.
Xu Chang-fu (Zhongshan University, China), “先验的自由与经验的自由——为“文革”爆发40周年、结束30周年而作” (“A Priori Freedom and A Posteriori
Freedom”) |
2.
Toshihiro Hirata (Yamagata University, Japan), “On
the Japanese Personalism and its Problem” |
2.
Wolfgang Ertl (Keio University, Japan), “Persons
as Causes in Kant” |
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5:50- 6:20pm |
3.
Kee Woo-tak (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea), “Comparative Study on Human Personhood – Kant and
South Korean Sung-ri hak” |
3.
Ruchira Majumdar (Jogamaya Devi College, India), “Kant’s Moral Philosophy in Relation to Indian
Moral Philosophy as Depicted in Srimadbhagavadgita” |
3.
Chen Xi (Peking University, China), „Ein
Widerspruch in Kants metaphisischen Erorterung des Raumsbegriffs“ |
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6:20-7pm |
Walk
from “new” campus to “old” campus [see map] for light refreshments on Science
Tower Podium |
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7:00- 9:00pm |
Third Keynote Address (in LT3): Chaired by Wong Kwok-Kui (Department of Religion and
Philosophy, HKBU) Günter
Wohlfart, Emeritus Professor (Wuppertal University), “Back
from Kant’s Universalized Egocentrism via Kongzi’s Moral Reciprocity to a
Daoist Ethos without Ego”. Respondents:
Chad Hansen, Emeritus Professor (University of HK) and Stephen Palmquist
(Dept. of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU) |
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SATURDAY, 23 MAY 2009
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Session A (in room ACC109) |
Session B (in room G9) |
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Session
IX |
A.
Humanity in Theory and Practice Chair: Lauren Pfister (HKBU) |
B.
Ethical Issues concerning Personhood Chair: Lo Ping Cheung (HKBU) |
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9:00- 9:30am |
1.
Wen Chun-ru (Anhui University, China), “康德的先验哲学与人性”
(“Kants transzendentale Philosophie und Menschlichkeit”) |
1.
Ronald M. Green (Dartmouth College, USA), “A
Kantian Perspective on Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Cloning” |
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9:30- 10:00am |
2.
Huang Hsu-chung (Soochow University, Taiwan), “康德道德哲學中的友誼” (“Friendship in Kant’s Moral Philosophy”) |
2.
Natascha Gruber (University of Vienna, Austria / University of California,
Berkeley, USA), “When Is a Person a Person –
When Does the ‘Person' Begin?” |
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10:00- 10:30am |
Refreshment break |
3.
Anita Ho (University of British Columbia, Canada), “Personhood
and Assisted Deaths” |
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Session
X |
A.
Kant and 20th-Century Philosophers on Personhood Chair: Vasil Gluchman (Presov University, Slovakia) |
B.
The Interface of Morality and Religion Chair: Chan Shun Hing (HKBU) |
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10:30- 11:00am |
1.
Park Chan-Goo (Seoul National University, South Korea), “Self- Knowledge and God in the Philosophy of Kant
and Wittgenstein” |
Refreshment break |
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11:00- 11:30am |
2.
Luh Jing-jong (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan), „Subjekt und Person: ein Dialog zwischen Kantischem und
hermeneutischem Philosophieren“ |
1.
Robert Gressis (Northridge, USA), “Rigorism,
Moral Outlooks, and Varieties of Evil and Good People” |
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11:30am- 12:00pm |
3.
Zhu Huihui (Wuhan University, China), “The Value
and Dignity of Humanity in Kant's Philosophy” |
2.
Alexander Bobko (University of Rzeszow, Poland), “The Unity of Human Personhood and the Problem of
Evil” |
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12:00- 12:30pm |
4.
Gennaro Luise (University of Catania, Italy), “Human
Reason and the Absolute” |
3.
Mohammad Raayat Jahromi (Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought,Tehran,
Iran), “Moral Theology or Theological
Morality? ” |
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12:30-2pm |
Lunch
at Renfrew Seafood Restaurant (2/F, David Lam Building, HKBU) |
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Session XI |
A.
Mou Tsang-san's Interpretation of Kant (I) Chair: Cheng Chung-ying (University of Hawaii) |
B.
Religious Aspects of Personhood (I) Chair: Chris L. Firestone (Trinity International University) |
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2:00- 2:30pm |
1.
Chong Chaehyun (Sogang University, South Korea), “Confucianism and Things-in-themselves: Reviewing
the Interpretations by Zongsan Mou and Chung-ying Cheng” |
1.
Claudia Bickmann (University of Cologne, Germany), “Immanuel Kant's Critical Concept of a Person:
The Noumenal Sphere Grounding the Principle of Spirituality” |
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2:30- 3:00pm |
2.
Pong Wen-berng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), “Mou Zongsan's Critique of Theory of Self-consciousness
in Kant's First Critique” |
2.
Phil Enns (Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga, Indonesia), “Kant and the Possibility of the Religious Citizen” |
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3:00- 3:30pm |
3.
Mihaela C. Fistioc (Yale University, USA), “Mou Zongsan and Kant on Intellectual Intuition: A
Reconciliation” |
3.
Brandon Love (Trinity International University, USA), “Kant's Religious Perspective on the Human Person” |
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3:30-4pm |
Refreshment break |
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Session XII |
A.
Mou Tsang-san's Interpretation of Kant (II) Chair: Andres S.K. Tang (HK Baptist Theological Seminary) |
B.
Religious Aspects of Personhood (II) Chair: Gino Yu (HK Polytechnic University) |
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4:00- 4:30pm |
1.
Annie Boisclair (University of Montreal, Canada), “Mou Zongsan's Interpretation of the Kantian Sumum
Bonum in Relation to Perfect Teaching” |
1.
Chris L. Firestone (Trinity International University, USA), “Why Morality Inevitably Leads to Religion:
Kant's Challenge to the Tradition of Confucius” |
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4:30- 5:00pm |
2.
Lee Jang-hee (Gyongin National University of Education, South Korea), “Kant and Mencius: Mou Zongsan's Kantian
Interpretation of Mencius” |
2.
Martin Moors (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), “Religious Fictionalism in Kant's Ethics of
Autonomy” |
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5:00- 5:30pm |
3.
Fabian Heubel (Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Taiwan), “Trans-cultural Explorations into Contemporary Philosophy
of Cultivation: On the Critique of Kant in Mou Zongsan and Foucault” |
3.
Aaron Bunch (Washington State University, USA), “The
Resurrection of the Body as a 'Practical Postulate'” |
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5:40-6pm |
Closing
discussion/ceremony in ACC109 |
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