ISCWP Panel Session at the 21st World Congress of Philosophy

Roundtable Panel Session:

Topic: "Comparative Ethics: Confucianism versus Liberalism"

Time: August 13, 2003, 9:00-10:50 am 

Place: Red Hall, Istanbul (Lutfi Kirdar) Congress and Exhibition Center

Chair: Bo Mou (San Jose State University, USA)

Speakers 1: Ruiping Fan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
"Equality of Opportunity and the Autonomy of the Family"

Speaker 2: Ho-mun Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
"A Naturalistic Approach to Chinese Conception of Social Justice"

Speaker 3: Julia Tao (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
"Ethics of Public Policy: Atomistic or Holistic?"

Commentator: Chung-yin Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

Commentator: Sor-hoon Tan (University of Singapore, Singapore)

Brief description:

All three proposed papers will draw on some empirical materials, in varying degrees, to illustrate philosophical arguments: the first one on health care practice in China , the second on the implementation of the Rawlsian experiment in three Chinese societies, and the third one on the perception of environmental risk among Hong Kong Chinese.