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Video of Joseph Chan and David Wong on Confucianism and Modern Political Thought
As part of the conversation series “The Liberal Imaginary and Beyond” from the Center on Modernity in Transition. Joseph Chan (University of Hong Kong) and David Wong (Duke) consider the role that Confucianism might play in expanding the possibilities of contemporary political thought and in resolving the various crises that confront humanity. Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHITKO7M0Eg&t=412s.
David B. Wong gives five lectures (virtual) to National Chengchi University
In May 2021 David B. Wong is delivering five virtual lectures on “Metaphor and Analogy in Chinese Thought on the website of the National Chengchi University, Taiwan. See the website for abstracts of the lectures plus video recordings of audio and video recordings of the lectures. In addition there will be an online workshop on the lectures and other portions of David Wong’s work on the evening of May 17 (correction, initially the date was wrongly identified as May 18, the correct day and time is Monday May 17, 8-11pm (EDT) and the morning of May 19 8-10:30am (EDT).
The conference will convene entirely online,
the link (Google Meeting) will be sent to applicant
before the event.
E-Mail： nccuccs@gmail.com
TEL：02-2939-3091 #69325
“Truth and Sanity” – Owen Flanagan (Duke University)
Our own Owen Flanagan is giving a talk at Sungkyunkwan University.
Title: “Truth and Sanity”
Location: International Hall 9B114, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
Time: 15 Feb (Fri) 2019 4-6pm
Abstract: This talk concerns false beliefs that might be good for us, including ideas of oneness inspired by East and South Asian traditions, but also general religious beliefs, positive illusions, and metaphysical hallucinations. William Clifford and William James’ views about the ethics of belief will be noted and discussed but I will present a new line of argument about what it might be good to believe.
“Through the Mirror: The Account of Other Minds in Chinese Yogācāra Buddhism” – JingJing Li (McGill University)
Speaker: Jingjing Li (McGill University)
Commentator: Bobby Bingle (Duke University)
[GAI Workshop] Trans-species Listening and Rights of Nature: Legal Persons beyond the Human
Trans-species Listening and Rights of Nature: Legal Persons beyond the Human
October 5, 2018 – 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Breedlove Room 349
The legal traditions of liberal democracy and human rights relied on the exceptionalism of the human whether derived from rationality, the soul, or the “dignity of man.” These notions originated in the entanglement of Christian notions of the human with the formation of the secular sphere in Europe and spread across the world to define a global political configuration often termed “modernity.” Rapid and unprecedented ecological changes, however, shone light on the insufficiency of a regime of rights restricted to humans. Simultaneously, the recognition of the devastating impact of colonization on indigenous peoples sparked a global movement to grant rights to these communities and drew attention to the diverse ways indigenous communities related with non-humans. While the first non-humans to receive recognition as legal persons may have been corporations, the “rights of nature” extend the recognition of legal persons to rivers, mountains, and non-human animals. This workshop aims to think about the global rights of nature movement by transcending the assumptions of modernity and listening not only across human cultures but also across species.
Breakfast and lunch will be served.
We welcome all participants for this workshop, but ask that you RSVP to Rohini Thakkar (rohini.thakkar@duke.edu(link sends e-mail)) for planning purposes.
CONTACT NAME
Thakkar, Rohini
919-681-3262
[Public Workshop] Planetary Humanities, Cosmopolitan Philosophies, Social Networks
Session descriptions:
Session 1: Planetary Humanities considers the general implications for the humanities of the broad dismantling of the claims to human exceptionalism. It will pay particular attention to a discussion of the university as an institution for the generation and transmission of knowledge, questions of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, and pedagogy for a flourishing planetary future.
Session 2: Cosmopolitan Philosophies, considers the tensions between philosophy’s claims to universality, truth and rationality, and its embeddedness in specific historical, cultural, linguistic and political knowledge structures. It considers the recent arguments for various kinds of world philosophy and Chinese responses and alternatives to questions of culture, universality and cosmopolitanism.
Session 3: Social Networks, seeks to move the discussion to a specific issue in the global politics of knowledge that have arisen through rapid technological changes in how humans across the planet participate in the construction and consumption of knowledge and information. Key here are social and political questions of how nation states, corporations or other subnational, national or international agencies should monitor, shape and manage the construction and consumption of global networked information. This raises questions of various forms of democratic participation, Internet access, publishing across borders that reveal key differences in US-Chinese politics.
[CCP & GAI Joint Workshop] The Topos of Mu and the Predicative Self: The Kyoto School and Western Eco-philosophy (J Baird Callicott, North Texas University)
The Topos of Mu and the Predicative Self: The Kyoto School and Western Eco-philosophy
Time: March 7, 2018 1pm – 2:15pm
Location: Gross Hall 230E (Duke University West Campus)
Abstract: Japanese Buddhism and the Japanese language de-emphasize the subjective self, so deeply rooted in the Western worldview from Pythagoras to Paul the Apostle to Paul Ricoeur. The analogue to the predicative self in contemporary eco-philosophy is a relational sense of self first clearly stated by Arne Naess. The danger of the predicative/relational self is nationalism and fascism, exemplified by WATSUJI Tetsurō. The universalism of a scientific grounding of the predicative/relational self in ecology and ethology, exemplified by Aldo Leopold and IMANISHI Kinji, respectively is the antidote.
Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Philosophy and the Global Asia Initiative
Lunch provided.
[Kenan Sponsored CCP Workshop] “The Possibility of Religious Pluralism” – Prof. Rajeev Bhargava (CSDS, Delhi)
Kenan Sponsored Center for Comparative Philosophy Talk Series
The Possibility of Religious Pluralism
Prof. Rajeev Bhargava (CSDS, Delhi)
Time: 9:00-11:00am Tuesday October 31st
Location: West Duke Building 204
Abstract: In this talk, Professor Rajeev Bhargava examines the theological, social and political conditions for the existence of religious pluralism. (more…)
David Wong gave the 3rd C R Parekh Memorial Lecture, “Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement” at the Parekh Institute of Indian Thought
Our scho
lar David Wong participated in two workshops on the theme, “THE ENDS OF HUMAN LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIAN AND CHINESE TRADITIONS,” sponsored by the Parekh Institute of Indian Thought, Center for the Study of Developing Societies,, Delhi, India & the Berggruen Institute, LA, USA. There were two workshops, a smaller one that lasted three weeks composed of three scholars working in Chinese Philosophy, Roger Ames, Chenyang Li, and Wong, and scholars on Indian thought: Patrick Olivelle, Donald Davis, and Jens Schlieter, together with Rajeev Bhargava, Shall Mayaram, and Ananya Vajpeyi from the Center for the Study of Developing Societies. (more…)
