白若翩

  • 職稱 Academic Position:兼任助理教授 Adjunct Assistant Professor
  • Email:robinweiss@ntu.edu.tw

學歷:

博士,以優異成績畢業(Ph.D. With Distinction)美國德保羅大學(DePaul University),2013年8月
碩士,美國德保羅大學,2006年5月
學士,紐約Purchase州立大學(State University of New York, Purchase),2004年5月

經歷:

助理教授,開羅美國大學,埃及新開羅,2014-2022
講師,本特利大學(Bentley University),美國麻州,2013-2014
訪問助理教授,阿莉森山大學(Mount Allison University),加拿大新布倫斯威克,2012-2013
研究生講師,DePaul大學,美國伊利諾州,2006-2012

西洋古代哲學

歐陸哲學

本學期開設課程:

1. “Discourse 19: On Clothing and Shelter,” Brill’s Companion to Musonius Rufus. Edited by Liz Gloyn and John Sellars. London: Brill (forthcoming).
2. “Senecan Tragedy as Response to Stoic Critique,” Interface (Summer 2021).
3. “Santayana’s Epiphenomenalism Reconsidered,” European Journal for Pragmatism and American Philosophy (XII 2-2021)
4. “Stoicism and Its Telos: Insights from Michel Foucault,” Metaphilosophy (April 2020). (A&HCI)
5. “A Dewian Conception of Skill as Clue to the Analogy Between Craft and Virtue in the Platonic Dialogues,” Skill in Ancient Ethics. Edited by Tom Angier and Lisa Raphals (Bloomsbury Academic, October 2021).
6. “The Furthermost Reaches of Community: The Stoics on Justice for Humans and for Animals,” Bulletin for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 2017/18.2 East (2017).
7. “A Non-Traditional Approach to Teaching the Forms: Ideals vs. Definitions,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy, Vol. 2. (2016).
8. “Stoic Utopia: The Use of Friendship in Creating the Ideal Society,” Apeiron 49 (April 2016).
9. “Platonism, Christianity, Stoicism: The Subject, the Truth, and the Political Import of their Relationship in Three Traditions,” Foucault Studies 18 (October 2014).
10. “Cicero’s Stoic Friend as Resolution to the Paradoxes of Platonic Love: De Amicitia Alongside the Symposium,” Ancient and Medieval Conceptions of Friendship, Gary Gurtler and Suzanne Stern-Gillet, eds. Albany: SUNY Press (December 2014).
11. “Cicero and Seneca as Aristotelians,” Bulletin for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 2013/14. East Philol. (2013)
12. “In Cicero’s De Finibus, An Ars Vitae Between Technê and Theôria,” Epoché 17:2 (Spring 2013).
13. “Arendt and the American Pragmatists: Her Debate with Dewey and Some American Strains in Her Thought,” Philosophy Topics (Spring 2012).

“Stoic Philosophy and Its Parts in Two Analogies,” Special Panel of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, The Society for Classical Studies, Philadelphia, Jan 3, 2020.

“The Stoic Concept of Community,” Taiwan Philosophy Association Annual Meeting, Tsing Hua University(台哲會2019年會,清華大學), Hsin Chu, Taiwan, November 9, 2019.

“The Stoic Concept of Community and Its Metaphysical Basis,” Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America, March 20, Seattle, Washington, 2019.

“The Measures of Virtue in the Zhuangzi: Reappropriation of the Skill Analogy,” co-authored with I-Kai Jeng, Comparing Virtues, Roles and Duties, in Early China and Greco-Roman Antiquity. Renmin University (德行,角色,與義務,人民大學), Beijing, China, July 9, 2018.

“The Furthermost Reaches of Community: The Stoics on Justice for Humans and for Animals,” Special Panel of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Society for Classical Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, January 6, 2017.

“On the Notion of Ignorance,” Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, October 17, 2017.

“Arendt and Adorno’s Differing Responses to Complicity, Collective Guilt, and the Erosion of the Conditions for Ethical Life,” Arendt and Critical Theory: 2nd Istanbul Critical Theory Conference in Exile, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany, July 14, 2017.

“Logic, Physics, Ethics: Philosophy’s Three Parts as Clue to as its Conceptualization and Practice Among the Stoa,” International Ancient Greek Annual Conference, Rhodes, Greece, July 10, 2017.

“The Furthermost Reaches of Community: The Stoics on Justice for Humans and for Animals,” Ancient Philosophy Society, Baylor University, Baylor, Texas, April 29, 2017.

“Metaphysical Thinking in the Wake of Catastrophe: Adorno Versus Aristotle,” Panel of the Theory And Praxis Workshop, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, November 8, 2016.

“Nature and Acting in Accord With Nature in Foucault and Stoicism,” Stoicism and French Philosophy from Sartre to Badiou, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., January 6, 2016.

“The Perception of Ends and the Contemplation of Forms in Dewey and Ancient Philosophy,” International Conference on Dewey and the Cognitive Sciences, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, October 15, 2015.

“Stoic Utopia: The Use of Friendship in Creating the Ideal Society,” Ancient Philosophy Society, Fifteenth Annual Meeting, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 9, 2015.

“Non-Compliance and Passive Resistance in Stoic Political Thought,” Complicity Conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, U.K, March 31, 2015.

“The Aesthetic Education of Man According to Santayana: A Pragmatist on Aesthetics and Ethical Life in German Romanticism,” Annual Meeting of the Dutch Association of Aesthetics, Leuven, Belgium, KU Leuven, February 27, 2015.

“Making an Art of Life, and Living Artfully,” American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt, October 19, 2014.

“Developing Historical Consciousness in Business Ethics Classes,” Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, May 22, 2014.

“Cicero and Seneca as Aristotelians,” Special Panel of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philological Association, January 4, 2014.

“Stoic Dialectic as Rhetoric,” Eleventh Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Cardiff University Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture, St. Michael’s College, Cardiff, U.K., June 13 2013.

“In What Sense the Art of Life is an Art,” invited talk at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 29, 2013.

“In What Sense the Art of Life is an Art,” Phoenix Colloquium Series, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, November 2, 2012.

“In Cicero’s De Officiis, a Model for the Relationship Between Ethics and Politics,” Atlantic Region Philosophers Association, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, October 12, 2012.

“In Cicero’s De Finibus, The Search For an Ars Vitae Neither Too Technical Nor Too Theoretical,” Ancient Philosophy Society, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, April 19, 2012.

“In Cicero’s De Officiis, a Model for the Relationship Between Ethics and Politics,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 15, 2012.

“Stoicism’s Hermeneutic and Its Political Implications,” Foucault Circle, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, April 1, 2012.

“What it Means to Turn Away From the World and Towards Oneself in Stoicism: Cicero, Seneca, Foucault,” invited talk at SUNY Purchase, Purchase, New York, October 19, 2011.

“Some Old Forms of Asceticism in a New Light: Self-Care in Cicero,” invited talk at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 15, 2011.

“From the Technê Analogy to the Forms: A Transition in the Meno,” The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, New York, October 17, 2010.

“Cicero on Friendship After Plato: De Amicitia Alongside the Symposium,” Eighth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Madrid, Spain, June 18, 2010.

“The Reflex Arc’s Reception on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Dewey and Freud on the Science of Energy in Equilibrium,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 12, 2009.

“Freud and Dewey on the Science of Energy in Equilibrium: Competing Theories of Homeostasis,” Manfred S. Frings Colloquium, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, October 3, 2009.

“The Fate of Theôria in Stoicism: Theory and Praxis Post-Aristotle,” The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, New York, October 17, 2009.

“Arendt’s Quarrel with Dewey,” Arendt Circle, Third Annual Meeting, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, March 28, 2008.

“Stoicism and the Aristotelian Criterion of Self-Sufficiency,” Ancient Philosophy Society, Seventh Annual Meeting, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, April 13, 2007.

“James Among the Ancients: Pragmatism as New Name for Some Ancient Ways of Thinking,” William James and His Influence, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, October 20, 2007.

“Arendt’s Critique of Marx: Two Perspectives on the Metabolism of Life,” Arendt Circle, First Annual Meeting, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, March 17, 2007.

安德魯.梅隆基金會(Mellon Foundation Development Grant)為 Bel Arabi Falsafa 計畫贊助 50000 美金,此計畫以口語阿拉伯文推廣大眾哲學。埃及開羅,2018秋-2019春

梅隆博士後研究(Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship),開羅美國大學,埃及,2014-2016

佛教人文修行體驗獎學金(Humanistic Buddhism Monastic Life Program Fellowship),日本東京,2004年7月