Events

FISP-PAJ Symposium: World Philosophy and World Crises

【Date】28 May 2023

【Venue】Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo 東京大学本郷キャンパス
               Faculty of Law & Letters Building 2 法文2号館 1大、2大教室
※Admission Free 参加自由

 

【Program】

9:30-9:45  Welcome Addresses  (Large Room 1)  Chair: Noburu Notomi

Keiichi Noe (Chair of JFPS)

Takahiro Nakajima (Director of EAA)

9:45-10:45  Keynote Speeches  (Large Room 1)  Chair: Noriko Hashimoto

Luca Maria Scarantino (President of FISP)

Masaki Ichinose (President of PAJ): A possibility of moral considerations for dead people

11:00-12:30

Session I-A: Confronting the Crisis

(Large Room 1) Chair: Daisuke Araya

Maria Baghramian: Trust in a time of crisis

Joao Vila-Cha: The politics of the person in a context of crisis

Stelios Virvidakis: Philosophy as a way of life at a time of crisis

Session I-B: Democracy and Society

(Large Room 2) Chair: Masataka Furusho

Gerhard Seel: What is racism and why is it morally wrong?

Anat Biletzki: The ‘democratic’ form of life

Giovanni Scarafile: Out of step? Reimagining the role of moral philosophers in a changing world

12:30-13:30  Lunch

13:30-14:30

Session II-A: Reconsidering the World

(Large Room 1) Chair: Hirotaka Nakano

Peter Jonkers: What holds the world together? The complexities of common values in times of pluralism

Riccardo Pozzo: Food-security and its declinations

Session II-B: Reconsidering Philosophy

(Large Room 2) Chair: Satsuki Tasaka

Yu-Suk Suh: Just transition and philosophy

Mayuko Uehara: Nishi Amane – A pioneer of the field of Japanese philosophy

14:45-16:15

Session III-A: Diversity and Environment

 (Large Room 1) Chair: Masumi Nagasaka

Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir: How critical thinking is embodied

Stella Villarmea: Philosophy of birth: Rethinking origin and reproductive justice

Tetsuya Kono: Is it ethically dangerous to insist on population growth control in order to avoid an environmental crisis?

Session III-B: World Philosophy

(Large Room 2) Chair: Yosuke Bando

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: Ethics and responsibility of the philosopher as a public intellectual Ethics and responsibility of the philosopher as a public intellectual” (following up on Sartre’s Tokyo Lectures 60 years ago!

Robin R Wang: The way of suppleness (柔道): A metaphysics against aggression

Noburu Notomi: World Philosophy and the possibility of dialogue

 

16:20-16:40  Coffee break

16:40-17:40 

Session IV: Philosophy and our future

(Large Room 1) Chair: Noburu Notomi

Suwanna Satha-anand: Distrust and right view in Buddhism

Noriko Hashimoto: Inter-subjectivity and Inter-objectivity

17:40-18:00 Concluding discussion  (Large Room 1)

 

Organized by:

FISP: International Federation of Philosophical Societies

PAJ: Philosophical Association of Japan 日本哲学会

Co-organized by:

SCJ: Science Council of Japan 日本学術会議 哲学委員会世界哲学構築のための分科会

JSPS: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会

EAA: East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, UTokyo 東アジア藝文書院

The Society of Philosophy 哲学会

JFPS: Japan Federation of Philosophical Societies 日本哲学系諸学会連合

Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo 東京大学大学院人文社会系研究科・文学部