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2nd ISCWP International Conference—
Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy:Constructive Engagement |
Time: June 14-15, 2005
Place: Hong Kong, China
Co-Sponsors
Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Conference Host)
The Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association
Theme
How John Searle’s philosophy and some thoughts and strands in Chinese philosophy could jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise in philosophically interesting ways.
Keynote Speaker/Commentator
John Searle (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
John Searle (1932-) is the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and the ISCWP Advisor. From his groundbreaking book Speech Acts and his influential “Chinese Room” argument to his most recent studies of intentionality, freedom, social reality, and rationality, Searle has been a highly influential figure among contemporary philosophers as well as among analytic philosophers. His work is discussed in a wide variety of disciplines as well as philosophy. He is a rare figure in analytic tradition to actively carry out a critical engagement with continental philosophy (e.g., with Derrida). He has his strong interest in the issue of cross-cultural understanding and engagement.
The conference will investigate how Searle’s philosophy and some thoughts and strands in Chinese philosophy can constructively engage with each other at least in the following aspects or areas of inquiries:
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Investigating how those perspectives, insights and visions respectively from Searle’s philosophy and Chinese philosophy could make their joint contributions to approaching some fundamental issues and common concerns in philosophical inquiries.
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Examining how some conceptual and explanatory resources in Searle’s philosophy can be used to help us elaborate some thoughts of classical Chinese philosophers.
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Examining how some substantial views and visions in Chinese philosophy can be used to enrich and contribute to Searle’s treatments and approaches in his philosophical inquiry.
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Examining how those reflective interpretations of some characteristic features of Chinese language in Chinese philosophy and Searle’s thoughts concerning philosophy of language could make their joint contribution to the development of philosophy of language.
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Investigating what counts as (cross-cultural) understanding Chinese language: A continuing debate over Searle’s “Chinese Room” argument in view of Chinese philosophy.
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Contact persons: For the relevant affairs to be taken care of by the conference host, contact Yiu-ming Fung at hmymfung@ust.hk; for the academic organizing affairs, contact Bo Mou at bmou@email.sjsu.edu.
List of Speakers
Keynote Speaker & Commentator:
Searle, John (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Keynote Speech: “On Globalization of Philosophy”
Allinson, Robert (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
“The Philosopher and the Sage: Searle and the Sixth Patriarch on Consciousness and the Brain”
Cheng, Chung-ying (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
“Searle’s Philosophy of Mind: From a Neo-Confucian Point of View”
Chong, Kim-chong (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
“Xunzi on Capacity, Ability and Constitutive Rules”
Fang, Wan-Chuan (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
“Skillfulness, Spontaneity and Daoist Sage--Taking Searle's View as a Point of Departure”
Fei, Dingzhou (Wuhan University, China)
“Understanding, Meaning and the Chinese Room Argument”
Fraser, Christopher J. (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“Wu-Wei, the Background, and Intentionality”
Fung, Yiu-ming (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
“How to Do Zen (Chan) with Words?---A Searlean Approach”
He, Gang (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China)
“Construction of a Cultural Act”
Hongladarom, Soraj (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
“Searle's Theory of Mind and the Buddhist Conception of Non-Self”
Krueger, Joel (Purdue University, USA)
“Wu Wei-ing the Alternatives: A Taoist Critique of Searle on Mind and Action”
Lee, Joseph C. T. (The Hong Kong Society for Analytic Philosophy, Hong Kong)
“On Searle’s Conceptions of Regulative and Constitutive Rules in View of the Chinese Practice of Criminal Law”
Lu, Jianyou (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
“Revelation of Searle's Speech Act Theory to Modern Chinese Philosophy”
Lum, Jeannie (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
“Searle’s Theory of Intentionality as a Philosophical Method for Social Research”
Martinich, A. P. (University of Texas at Austin, USA):
“Reference, Truth and Fiction, and John Searle’s Philosophy”
Mou, Bo (San Jose State University, USA)
“Searle, Zhuang Zi, and Transcendental Perspectivism”
Nuyen, Anh Tuan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
“Confucianism and the Is-Ought Question”
Stroll, Avrum (University of California at San Diego, USA)
“Searle on Knowledge, Certainty and Skepticism”
Willman, Marshall (University of Iowa, USA)
“Searle, De Re Belief, and the Chinese Language”
Wong, Kai-Yee and Christopher J Fraser (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zhang, Min (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
“Beyond the Literal: A Discourse Analysis of Ancient Chinese Classics”