1st Joint Symposium of NTU-Scranton on “Language and Reality”

第一屆 臺灣大學美國斯克蘭頓大學哲學工作坊:「語言與實在」

Organized by

Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University
Department of Philosophy, The University of Scranton

Date: 30 May 2019(Thursday)、31 May 2019(Friday )

Venue: Room 302, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University

 

Day 1 (30 May, 2019, Thursday)

9:00-9:10 Opening Ceremony chaired by Prof. Caleb LIANG 梁益堉(Head, Dept. of Philosophy, NTU)
9:10-10:30 The Logic of the Ineffable: A Comparative Study of the Plotinian One and the Daoist Dao
Chair Prof. Jeu-Jenq Yuann 苑舉正

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Ann A. Pang-White龐安安

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

Commentator Prof. Chi-keung Chan 陳志強

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

10:40-12:00 A Confucian Theory of Immorality: From Classical Confucianism to Neo-Confucianism
Chair Prof. Wim De Reu 魏家豪

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Chi-keung Chan 陳志強

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Commentator Prof. Ann A. Pang-White 龐安安

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:50 Language, Recklessness and Reality in Zhuangzi and Plato
Chair Prof.Christian Helmut Wenzel文哲

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Harold W. Baillie

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

Commentator Prof. Hsei-Yung Hsu 徐學庸

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

14:50-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:20 Epicurus on the Existence of the Gods
Chair Prof. Wen-Berng Pong彭文本

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Hsei-Yung Hsu 徐學庸

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Commentator Prof. Harold W. Baillie

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

16:20-17:40 Flatus Vocis: Language and Reality in Medieval Nominalism
Chair Prof. Hsei-Yung Hsu 徐學庸

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Andrew T. LaZella

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

Commentator Prof. I-Kai Jeng 鄭義愷

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

 

Day 2 (31 May 2019 Friday)

9:10-10:30 Poetry and Philosophy: Ways of Discourse and Ways of Life

 

Chair Prof. Tse-Mei Wu 吳澤玫

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)Prof.

Presenter Prof. I-Kai Jeng 鄭義愷

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Commentator Prof. Andrew T. LaZella

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

10:40-12:00 The Problem of Opposites as a Fundamental Philosophy
Chair Prof. Ming-Chen Lo羅名珍

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Matthew Meyer

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

Commentator Prof. Chih-Sheng Yang 楊植勝

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:50 A Comparison of the philosophies of Recollection/Memory and Forgetting/Oblivion in the Eastern and Western Culture
Chair Rong-Lin Wang 王榮麟

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Chih-Sheng Yang 楊植勝

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Commentator Prof. Matthew Meyer

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

14:50-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:20 Language, the Mental Lexicon, and Reality
Chair Prof. Duen-Min Deng 鄧敦民

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. George J. Aulisio

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

Commentator Prof. Lok-Chi Chan 陳樂知

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

16:20-17:40 Four Meta-Methods for the Study of Qualia, and a Realism About Mental Representation
Chair Prof. Nihel H. Jhou 周先捷

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Presenter Prof. Lok-Chi Chan 陳樂知

(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Commentator Prof. George J. Aulisio

(Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)

17:40-18:00 Closing Ceremony chaired by Prof. Ming Chao Lin 林明照(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

 

Closing Remarks:

Prof. Caleb LIANG 梁益堉(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Prof. Jeu-Jenq Yuann 苑舉正(Dept. of Philosophy, National Taiwan University)

Prof. Ann A. Pang-White 龐安安 (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Scranton)