由杜维明先生推动，国际哲学联盟（FISP）决定在中国举办一次工作坊（Workshop），主题为“作为公共话语的哲学”，以为2013年8月在雅典举行的第23届世界哲学大会（XXIII WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY: Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life，ATHENS, GREECE，AUGUST 4 - 10, 2013）热身。工作坊由上海交通大学与华东师范大学共同承办，安排如下：2013年3月14日（周四）上午10点，由国际哲学联盟（FISP）主席William McBride博士（Department of Philosophy, Purdue University）做题为“Rethinking Philosophy as a Public Discourse”的讲演（附提纲），地点：上海交通大学闵行校区人文学院321室；下午2点，中外学者进行工作坊讨论，地点：华东师范大学闵行校区人文学术沙龙。
上海交通大学人文学院
华东师范大学哲学系
附：Dr. McBride演讲提纲
As FISP prepares for the next World Congress of Philosophy, an event that takes place every five years and that will be held this coming August in Athens, Dr McBride thinks that it is important to celebrate philosophy’s role as a public discourse in a world that can benefit greatly from it. In the first half of his talk Dr McBride will consider obstacles to the realization of this role, first, from within philosophy itself (philosophers with a very narrow view of what philosophy is and can be), and second, from “outside” philosophy (notably anti-intellectualist currents and ideological attacks based on the pursuits of profit-maximization and/or consumerism). In the second half of his talk he will explore the contemporary phenomenon of the “One World” that we are increasingly becoming, with a view to opening up the prospect of a public philosophical discourse that, while not neglecting the special features and problems of individual nations and cultures, nevertheless aspires to a global relevance for which it is uniquely suited.