The Second BESETO Conference of Philosophy

“Philosophy and East-Asian Thoughts”

December 27-28, 2007

Organized by:
Department of Philosophy
Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University

Shao Yuan Hotel, Peking University
Beijing, China                                    
Program

Download the Conference Program in PDF Here.

Dec. 26, Wednesday, 2007
18:00 Please wait in the lobby of Building 7, Shaoyuan Hotel.  Someone will guide you to the Beida Zi Yuan Hotel for Reception.
18:30 Reception (At Beida Zi Yuan Hotel )
Dec.27, Thursday, 2007
Morning
Before 8:20 Breakfast at Building 2, Shaoyuan Hotel (optional)
8:20 Please wait at the lobby of Building 7, Shao Yuan Hotel.  Someone will guide you to the Room 301 of the same building where the conference will be held.
Opening Session (Room 301 of Building 7, Shao Yuan Hotel)
*8:30 – 9:00 Opening Speeches:
Representatives of Conference Host:
Prof. Zhao, Dunhua (Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Peking University);  
Prof. Shang, Xinjian (Director of the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking
University);
Prof. Zhang, Xianglong (Director of the Phenomenology Center at Peking University)
Taking Photos.
*9:00-10:10 Session I: Creativity and Value
Chair: Prof. Dunhua Zhao
Junichi Murata (Prof. of Tokyo Uni.): “Creativity of the Historical World:  Nishida and the Philosophy of Technology”
Manuel B. Dy, Jr. (Prof. of Ateneo de Manila Uni.): “Max Scheler's Value Ethics”
10:10-10:30 Tea Break
*10:30-12:15 Session II: Freedom, Pluralism and Body
Chair: Prof. Xinjian Shang
Masaki Ichinose (Prof. of Tokyo Uni.): “Freedom and Subvaluationism”
Feng Peng (Associate Prof. of Peking Uni.): “Pluralism: Presence vs. Significance”
Sang Hwan Kim (Prof. of Seoul National Uni.): “Body, Modernity and Politics: an Essay on Sports”
12:15-13:30 Lunch
*13:30-15:15 Session III (Room 301 of Building 7): Skepticism, Analytical and Cognitive
Philosophy
Chair: Prof. Eunsu Cho
Jun Yeol Kim (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “The Basic Structure of Skepticism”
Peng Dong (Graduate Student of Peking Uni.): “On Knowledge Argument”
Mineki Oguchi  (Graduate Student of Tokyo Uni.):  “In Defense of Conceptualism of Perceptual Content: Through Understanding the Concept of Experience in McDowell’s Mind and World”
*13:30-15:15 Session IV (Room 302 of Building 7): Phenomenology and Psychology:
Consciousness, Self and Earth
Chair: Prof. Manuel B. Dy, Jr.
Tae Hee Kim (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “The Absolute Consciousness in Husserl's Analysis of Time”
Wenjing Cai (Graduate Student of Peking Uni.): “Investigating a Possible Self-knowledge——A Preliminary Comparison between Psychological Approach and Heidegger’s Daseinanalysis”
Young Hwa Seo (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “The Earthy Character of the Thing——An Analysis of ‘the Origin of the Work of Art’”
15: 15:-15:30 Tea Break
*15:30-17:15 Session V (Room 301 of Building 7):  Memory, Object and Cognition
Chair: Prof. Yukihiro Nobuhara
Eisuke Nakazawa (中澤栄輔, Graduate Student of Tokyo Uni.): “Neurophilosophy of Memory”
Il Man Choi (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “Noema and Object: The Problem of Doubling of Object”
Ryo Uehara (Graduate Student of Tokyo Uni.): “The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement and Self-trans-formation”
*15:30-17:15 Session VI (Room 302 of Building 7): Ethics and Religious Belief
Chair: Prof. Masaki Ichinose
Zhen Cai (Graduate Student of Peking Uni.): “Aristotle on Virtuous Actions”
Jeeyoung Kang (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “A Study on Kant's Concept of the Highest Good”
Kwon Heejin (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “The Rationality of Religious Belief”
17:30 Supper
Dec. 28, Friday, 2007
Morning
Before 8:20 Breakfast, at Building 2, Shaoyuan Hotel (optional)
*8:30-10:50 Session VII (Room 301): Western Philosophy and Familiarity in Korea
Chair: Dr. Haiming Wen
Kenichiro Imamura (Graduate Student of Tokyo Uni.): “Locke's Education Theory of Punishment”
Xuanci Zhang (Graduate Student of Peking Uni.): “Soul in the Timaeus”
Myungsoon Lee (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “Types of Republicanism and the Critique”
Bo Lei (Graduate Student of Peking Uni.): “‘Familiarity’ ——A Philosophical Study of the Chinese Audience’s Appreciation of Family Rites in Korean Teledrama”
*8:30-10:50 Session VIII (Room 302): Morality, Kingship, Music and Women in East Asian
Perspectives
Chair: Prof. Tetsuya Sakakibara
Tomomi Asakura (朝倉友海, Graduate Student of Tokyo Uni.): “Morality and Modern East Asian Philosophy--An Essay toward a Comparative Study of New Confucianism and Kyoto School”
Lanfeng Wen (Undergraduate Student of Peking Uni.): “Women’s Divided Life in Sung Dynasty——The Distinction of Sexes in Neo-Confucians’ Narration”
Yongbin You (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “Kingship of the School of Huanglao: Based on 4 books of Guanzi”
Jung Eun Jo (Graduate Student of Seoul National Uni.): “The Function of Music in Ji Kang's Musical Theory----Based on the Sheng wu ai le lun”
10:50-11:05 Tea Break
11:05-12:15 Session IX (Room 301): Confucianism and Buddhism
Chair: Prof. Sang Hwan Kim
Xianglong Zhang (Prof. of Peking Uni.) “The Philosophical Feature of Confucianism and Its Position in the Inter-Cultural Dialogue---- Universalism or Non-Universalism?”
Eunsu Cho (Associate Prof. of Seoul National Uni.): “W?nhyo’s Ontology: Hermeneutical Shift in 7th Century East Asian Buddhism”
12:15 Lunch
13:30-15:15 Session X (Room 301): Phenomenology
Chair: Prof. Feng Peng
Nam-In Lee (Prof. of Seoul National Uni.): “Problems of Intersubjectivity in Husserl and Buber”
Zhe Liu (Post-Doctor of Peking Uni.): “Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Transcendental”
Tetsuya Sakakibara (Associate Prof. of Tokyo Uni.): “Husserl on Static and Genetic Theories of Experience of the Other”
15:15-15:30 Tea Break
15:30-17:15 Session XI (Room 301): Feeling and Mind in Varied Perspectives
Chair: Prof. Nam-In Lee
Haiming Wen (Associate Prof. of Renmin University; Post-Doctor of Peking Uni.): “From Confucian Feelings (Qing 情) to Dao’s-eye-view”
Wu Tianyuan (Post-Doctor of Peking Uni.): “Rethinking Augustine’s Adaptation of ‘First Movements’ of Affection”
Yukihiro Nobuhara (Associate Prof. of Tokyo Uni.): “Brain Science and Possibilities of Reading the Mind”
17:15-18:00 Closing Session: Summary and Expectation
Chair: Prof. Junichi Murata
18:30 Banquet
Dec. 29, Saturday, 2007
8:30 Please wait in the lobby of Building 7, Shaoyuan Hotel, to be led to the bus for tourist trip.
8:30 – 16:30 Tour, Forbidden City and Heaven Temple (in downtown area)
17:30 or so Go back and arrive at Building 7, Shaoyuan Hotel

Participants List of the 2nd BESETO Conference


Seoul National University
? Nam-In Lee  (Professor at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Phenomenology
Title of paper: “Problems of Intersubjectivity in Husserl and Buber”
? Sang Hwan Kim  (Professor at Seoul National University)
Specialty: French Philosophy
Title of paper: “Body, Modernity and Politics: an Essay on Sports”
? Manuel B. Dy, Jr.  (Professor at the Philosophy Department of Ateneo de Manila University; Visiting Seoul National University)
Specialty: Phenomenology, East Asian Philosophy
Title of paper: “Max Scheler's Value Ethics”
? Eunsu Cho  (Associate Professor at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Buddhist Philosophy
Title of paper: “W?nhyo’s Ontology: Hermeneutical Shift in 7th Century East Asian Buddhism”
? Jun Yeol Kim  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Analytic Philosophy
Title of paper: “The Basic Structure of Skepticism”
? Tae Hee Kim  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Phenomenology
Title of paper: “The Absolute Consciousness in Husserl's Analysis of Time”
? Young Hwa Seo  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Phenomenology, Heidegger
Title of paper: “The Earthy Character of the Thing----An Analysis of ‘the Origin of the Work of Art’”
? Il Man Choi  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Phenomenology
Title of paper: “Noema and Object: The Problem of Doubling of Object”
? Jeeyoung Kang  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Kant
Title of paper: “A Study on Kant's Concept of the Highest Good”
? Kwon Heejin  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Analytic Philosophy
Title of paper: “The Rationality of Religious Belief”
? Myungsoon Lee  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: Social Philosophy
Title of paper: “Types of Republicanism and the Critique”
? Yongbin You  (Graduate Student of Seoul National University)
Specialty: East Asian Philosophy
Title of paper: “Kingship of the School of Huanglao: Based on 4 books of Guanzi”
? Jung Eun Jo  (Graduate Student at Seoul National University)
Specialty: East Asian philosophy
Title of paper: “The Function of Music in Ji Kang's Musical Theory----Based on the Sheng wu ai le lun”
The University of Tokyo
? Junichi Murata  (Professor of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science
Title of paper: “Creativity of the Historical World: Nishida and the Philosophy of Technology”
? Masaki Ichinose  (Professor of Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: British empiricism and analytic philosophy, in particular concerning the problem of causation, probability, and the concept of person.
Title of paper:  “Freedom and Subvaluationism”
? Tetsuya Sakakibara  (Associate Professor of Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Ethics
Title of paper: “Husserl on Static and Genetic Theories of Experience of the Other”
? Yukihiro Nobuhara  (Associate Professor of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Philosophy of Mind
Title of paper: “Brain Science and Possibilities of Reading the Mind”
? Mineki Oguchi  (Student of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Philosophy of Science
Title of paper: “In Defense of Conceptualism of Perceptual Content: Through Understanding the Concept of Experience in McDowell’s Mind and World”
? Eisuke Nakazawa  (中澤栄輔, Student of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Philosophy of Science
Title of paper: “Neurophilosophy of Memory”
? Ryo Uehara  (Student of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Epistemology, Neuroethics
Title of paper: “The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement and Self-trans-formation”
? Kenichiro Imamura  (今村健一郎, Student of Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Anglo-American Philosophy, Locke’s Moral and Social Philosophy
Title of paper: “Locke's Education Theory of Punishment”
? Tomomi Asakura  (朝倉友海, Student of Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo)
Specialty: Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics of Spinoza and Leibniz, and East Asian philosophy
Title of paper: “Morality and Modern East Asian Philosophy--An Essay toward a Comparative Study of New Confucianism and Kyoto School”
Peking University
? Xianglong Zhang  (张祥龙, Professor at Peking Univeisity)
Specialty: Phenomenology, Comparative Philosophy
Title of paper: “The Philosophical Feature of Confucianism and Its Position in the Inter-Cultural Dialogue---- Universalism or Non-Universalism?”
? Feng Peng  (彭锋, Associate Professor at Peking University)
Specialty:  Aesthetics
Title of paper: “Pluralism: Presence vs. Significance”
? Haiming Wen (温海明，Associate Professor at Renmin University; Post-Doctor at Peking University)
Specialty: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy
Title of paper: “From Confucian Feelings (Qing 情) to Dao’s-eye-view”
? Zhe Liu  (刘哲, Post-Doctor at Peking University;  Ph.D. of Leuven Uni.)
Specialty: Theory of Subjectivity covering German Idealism, French Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
Title of paper: “Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Transcendental”
? Tianyuan Wu  (吴天岳, Post-Doctor at Peking University;  Ph.D. of Leuven Uni.)
Specialty: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology
Title of paper: “Rethinking Augustine’s Adaptation of ‘First Movements’ of Affection”
? Peng Dong  (董鹏, Graduate Student at Peking University)
Specialty: Ethics, Meta Ethics
Title of paper: “On Knowledge Argument”
? Wenjing Cai  (蔡文菁, Graduate Student at Peking University)
Specialty: Phenomenology
Title of paper: “Investigating a possible Self-knowledge——A Preliminary Comparison between Psychological Approach and Heidegger’s Daseinanalysis”
? Zhen Cai  (蔡蓁, Graduate Student at Peking University)
Specialty: Aristotle's Ethics, Kant's Ethics, and Virtue Ethics
Title of paper: “Aristotle on Virtuous Actions”
? Xuanci Zhang  (张轩辞, Graduate Student at Peking University)
Specialty: Ancient Greek Philosophy
Title of paper: “Soul in the Timaeus”
? Bo Lei  (雷博, Graduate Student at Peking University)
Specialty: Chinese Philosophy, Historical Thought of the Song Dynasty
Title of paper: “‘Familiarity’ ——A Philosophical Study of the Chinese Audience’s Appreciation of Family Rites in Korean Teledrama”
? Lanfeng Wen  (温蓝枫,Undergraduate Student at Peking University)
Specialty: Chinese Philosophy
Title of paper: “Women’s Divided Life in Sung Dynasty——The Distinction of Sexes in Neo-Confucians’ Narration”