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The 16th International Conference for Chinese Philosophy will be held at the Fu-jen Catholic University in Taipei, July 7-15, 2009.

 

More information, please see announcement in English or Chinese.

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The XXIInd World Congress of Philosophy, July 30 to August 5, 2008, Seoul, Korea.

 

XXII World Congress Society Meeting (I) 

 

1, Participants:

Chenyang Li (Central Washington University, USA)

Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

Qiyong Guo (Wuhan University, China)

Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Robin R. Wang (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

Chicheng Zhou (South China Normal University, China)

 

2, Title: “Rethinking Daoism in Today's Context”

 

3, Program:

Chair: Chenyang Li

Speakers:

Chung-ying Cheng, “Daoism in the Modern and Postmodern Worlds”

Qiyong Guo, “The Dao in the Laozi and Zhuangzi

Karyn Lai, “Zhuangzi’s Daoism: Encouraging a Spirit of Tolerance”

Robin R. Wang, “To Become a Female Daoist Master: Kundao 坤道 in Training”

Chicheng Zhou, “A Concept of Animal Rights from Chuang-tzu”

 

XXII World Congress Society Meeting (2) 

 

1, Participants:

Vincent Shen (University of TorontoCanada)

Winnie Hiu-Chuk Sung (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Xinyan Jiang (University of Redlands, USA)

Ann A. Pang-White (University of Scranton, USA)

Caigang Yao (Hubei University, China)

Francis LI Chung-hung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong),

 

2, Title: Daoism in Comparative Perspectives.

 

3, Program:

Chair: Vincent Shen

Speakers:

Xinyan Jiang, “Why Can the Yin Yang Theory Justify the Golden Mean?”

Ann A. Pang-White, “Nature, Freedom, and Environment: A Daoist Reply to a Kantian Dilemma”

Caigang Yao, “The Mutual Enhancement of Daoism and the Yangming Philosophy”

Winnie Hiu-Chuk Sung, “Confucian Learning and Daoist Learning”

Francis LI Chung-hung, “‘Not Laugh, Not be Tao’: The Application of Taoism in the Drawings of Yue Minjun”

 

  

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