International Conference
Metaphysics：
Past, Present and Future
December 12-14, 2014
EastChinaNormalUniversity,Shanghai
InternationalSociety for Metaphysics (ISM)
Instituteof Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, ECNU
Institute of Philosophy,ShanghaiAcademy of Social Sciences Department ofPhilosophy, ECNU
Shanghai Associationof Comparative Study of Chinese-Western Philosophy and Culture
Conference Program
Note: 20minutes for each speaker, and 20 minutes for free discussion. The bell willring once when the speaker has two minutes left, and twice when time is over.
Saturday,December 13
Opening Ceremony A508, Science Building 8:30～8:50 | ||
Chair：Yu Zhenhua | ||
Speakers：Yang Guorong, Gholamreza Aavani, He Xirong, William Sweet | ||
Session 1 A508, Science Building 8:50～10:10 | ||
Chair：Victoria S. Harrison | ||
William Sweet | Transhumanism and the Metaphysics of the Human Person | |
Peng Guoxiang | A Confucian One-body Worldview: Rereading the Inquiry on the Great Learning | |
Gholamreza Aavani | Volunterism in Post-Cartesian Western Philosophy | |
Discussion | ||
Group Photo Front Steps of Science Building 10:10～10:20 | ||
Tea Break 10:20～10:30 | ||
Session 2 A508, Science Building 10:30～11:30 | ||
Chair：Gholamreza Aavani | ||
Yu Xuanmeng | On the Self-Awareness of Life | |
Peter Jonkers | Pluralism and Unity：The Challenge of Deconstructive Philosophy to Metaphysics | |
Discussion | ||
Lunch First Floor, Academic Exchange Center 11:40～12:40 | ||
Session 3 14:00～15:40 | ||||||
Group A | Group B | |||||
Venue: | A508 ScienceBuilding | Venue: | Room 431, New YifuBuilding | |||
Chair：Shi Weimin | Chair：Vincent Shen | |||||
Wamala Edward | Metaphysical Reflection in the Age of Commercial Knowledge Production for Markets | Chang Tzu-li | Is There Such a Thing as Personal Identity? A Comparative Study Between Korsgaard and Wang Yangming | |||
Zhang Xiaoyong | Metaphysics as History | Wu Genyou | On Zhang Shiying’s “Horizontal Transcendence” and its Practical Value | |||
Zhang Lili | A Metaphysical Study on “Cunzai” (existence), “Shi”（being), and “You”(having) | Zhou Guangyou | Metaphysics in Wang Fuzhi’s Theory of DAO-Qi | |||
Paul D’Ambrosio | The Value of Lying in the Mengzi: Falsity and Consequentialism in Early Confucianism | |||||
Discussion | ||||||
Tea Break 15:40～15:50 | ||||||
Session 4 15:50～17:10 | ||||||
Group A | Group B | |||||
Venue: | A508, ScienceBuilding | Venue: | Room 431, New YifuBuilding | |||
Chair: Wojciech Golubiewski | Chair: Peng Guoxiang | |||||
Hao Zhaokuan | On Analyticity: From Frege to Gödel | Wang Xiaoyong | Physical metaphysics starting from the aspect of differentiation between the Object and Chinese characters | |||
An Weifu | What is the thing called metaphysics from Aristotle` s Metaphysics (14 books) ? | Mihai-Dan Chițoiu | Beyond Concept: Ways to Express Radical Experiences | |||
Guan Yuefei | The Metaphysics of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | |||||
Discussion | ||||||
Dinner First Floor, AcademicExchangeCenter 17:30 | ||||||
Sunday,December 14
Session 5 8:30～10:10 | ||||||
Group A | Group B | |||||
Venue: | A508, ScienceBuilding | Venue: | A207, ScienceBuilding | |||
Chair: Zong Desheng | Chair: Catherine Lynch | |||||
Wan Xiaoping | Rethink on the Theory of Metaphysics of Li Shicen | Zheng Zemian | Paradoxes of Unity and Sincerity: An Outline of Neo-Confucian Monism and Ethical Realism | |||
Chen Yun | From “WuTiZhiTi” to “Yu Hua Wei Ti”: The Way of Heaven, Subjective, and Creativity in Traditional Chinese Thoughts | Chen Zhiwei | Goodness and Righteousness: The Internal Architecture of Mencius’ Political Philosophy | |||
Jen-kuen Chen | On the Activity and Formality of Zhu Xi's “Principle”(Li) | Wu Ning | Commonwealth of Free People and Citizens of the World towards the Unlimited Communication | |||
Gou Dongfeng | Being and Ming: An access to get approach to Confucian Metaphysics | Fang Xudong | A Comparative Study on Zhu Xi and Hegel: Focusing on taiji | |||
Discussion | ||||||
Tea Break 10:10～10:20 | ||||||
Session 6 10:20～11:40 | ||||||
Group A | Group B | |||||
Venue: | A508 ScienceBuilding | Venue: | A207, ScienceBuilding | |||
Chair：L. P. Singh | Chair：Hu Yeping | |||||
Wu Xiaoyun | On Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and Marxism | Andrew Tsz Wan HUNG | On Cornell Realism and Shafer-Landau’s Non-Naturalism | |||
John Tālivaldis Ozoliņš | Mysticism and Logic | Chrysoula Gitsoulis | The Role of Reason in Grounding Moral Standards | |||
Zong Desheng | Two Routes to the Refutation of the Essential Indexicality Thesis | Wojciech Golubiewski | Aquinas and Natural Goodness of Human Action | |||
Discussion | ||||||
Lunch First Floor, Academic Exchange Center 11:50～12:40 | ||||||
Session 7 A508, Science Building 14:00～15:20 | ||||
Chair：William Sweet | ||||
Shi Weimin | Hegel’s Idea of Metaphysics | |||
Vincent Shen | Articulating an Ontology of Events: Huayan Buddhism’s Concept of Event and Whitehead’s Ontological Principle | |||
Catherine Lynch | Li Zehou’s Historical Ontology and American Pragmatism | |||
Discussion | ||||
Tea Break 15:20～15:30 | ||||
Session 8 A508, Science Building 15:30～16:50 | ||||
Chair：Yu Zhenhua | ||||
Victoria S. Harrison | The Metaphysics of Mathematics and Religion | |||
L.P. Singh | Ontological Mysticism: The Future Metaphysics | |||
Hu Yeping | Metaphysics as an Open Horizon for the Understanding of Human Life: A Critique of Wilhelm Dilthey’s Critique of Metaphysics | |||
Discussion | ||||
Business meeting 16:50～17:20 | ||||
Dinner First Floor, AcademicExchangeCenter 17:30 | ||||