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.

Sponsored by:
SFU David See-Chai Lam Centre
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
SFU FASS Dean’s Office
SFU Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic

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SCHEDULE

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),

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)