ASIAN
PHILOSOPHY
WORKSHOP
April 27–28, 2024Chinese Metaphysics
Sauder Industries Policy Room
Room 2270, Harbour Centre
515 W Hastings St
Vancouver, BC V6B 4N6
Room 2270, Harbour Centre
515 W Hastings St
Vancouver, BC V6B 4N6
About
The Simon Fraser University Asian Philosophy Workshop (APW) is an event for scholars and students working in Asian philosophical thought, with the primary goal of making connections between Asian philosophy and Western analytic philosophy.
This year’s theme is Chinese Metaphysics.
Jennifer Wang
Co-organizers:
Nic Bommarito
Qiu Lin
Sponsors:
SFU David See-Chai Lam Centre
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
SFU FASS Dean’s Office
SFU Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic
Hosted by:
SFU Department of Philosophy
https://www.sfu.ca/philosophy
Contact:
asianphilosophyworkshop@gmail.com
Schedule 2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024
9:00-10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00-11:15AM
Jenny Hung (HKUST/Stanford), “Are you an Authentic Animal? Reconstructing the Early Confucian Theory of the Self”
11:30 AM-12:45PM
Stephen C. Walker (Chicago), “If I depend on you and you depend on me, which one of us is causing the other?”
12:45-2:45PM
Lunch
2:45-4:00 PM
Li Kang (Washington and Lee), “Artificial Personhood: Through a Buddhist Lens”
4:15-5:30 PM
Alexus McLeod (Indiana-Bloomington), “Completion, Heaven’s Regularities, and Human Creation of the Cosmos”
9:00-10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00-11:15AM
Jenny Hung (HKUST/Stanford), “Are you an Authentic Animal? Reconstructing the Early Confucian Theory of the Self”
11:30 AM-12:45PM
Stephen C. Walker (Chicago), “If I depend on you and you depend on me, which one of us is causing the other?”
12:45-2:45PM
Lunch
2:45-4:00 PM
Li Kang (Washington and Lee), “Artificial Personhood: Through a Buddhist Lens”
4:15-5:30 PM
Alexus McLeod (Indiana-Bloomington), “Completion, Heaven’s Regularities, and Human Creation of the Cosmos”
Sunday, April 28, 2024
8:30-9:15 AM
Breakfast
9:15-10:30 AM
Davide Zappulli (UBC), “The Metaphysics of Creation in the Daodejing”
10:45 AM-12:00 PM
Peter Tan (Fordham), “Shen Gua (沈括) on Causation and Laws of Nature”
*Register by emailing asianphilosophyworkshop@gmail.com
8:30-9:15 AM
Breakfast
9:15-10:30 AM
Davide Zappulli (UBC), “The Metaphysics of Creation in the Daodejing”
10:45 AM-12:00 PM
Peter Tan (Fordham), “Shen Gua (沈括) on Causation and Laws of Nature”
*Register by emailing asianphilosophyworkshop@gmail.com
Speakers
Li Kang
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Washington and Lee University
Peter P Tan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Fordham University
https://sites.google.com/site/
petertanphilosophy
Jenny Hung
Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
https://huma.hkust.edu.hk/
people/jenny-hung
Stephen C. Walker
The University of Chicago
https://philpeople.org/profiles/
stephen-c-walker
Davide Andrea Zappulli
Ph.D. student in philosophy
University of British Columbia
http://davidezappulli.com
Alexus McLeod
Indiana University Bloomington
Organizers
Jennifer Wang
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
https://jennwang.org/
Nic Bommarito
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
https://www.nicbommarito.
com/
Qiu Lin
Assistant Professor
Simon Fraser University
https://qiulin.org/
Venue
Public parking is available at many locations near the Centre. Street parking is free after 10 pm. The closest parking lot is at 400 West Cordova Street.
Public Transit
Major public transit lines, the SeaBus, SkyTrain and WestCoast Express terminate at Waterfront Station, located in the historic CP Rail Station on Cordova Street, opposite Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre. Transit schedules can be found at www.translink.ca. The Centre is also within easy walking distance of all street buses with a terminus in downtown Vancouver.