World Congress of Philosophy

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The XXIV World Congress of Philosophy
 
Abstract & Papers Submission, WCOP 2018

Online submission is open now.

All persons who want to participate in the Congress are welcome to submit their abstract and paper

Abstract and paper should be intended to one of the 99 Sections for contributed papers announced in the tab menu “Sections for Contributed papers”

WAYS OF SUBMISSION

There are three ways of submitting the abstract and paper:

(1) Online submission

Click here to reach the Online submission Page.

(2) As attachment to an email message: secretariat@wcp2018.pku.edu.cn

(3) the archaic way of sending the documents by post:

    Chinese Organizing Committee

    24th World Congress of Philosophy Secretariat

 Department of Philosophy—Peking University, No.5 Yiheyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China 100871

北京市海淀区颐和园路5 号北京大学哲学

    系世界哲学大会秘书处

    中国组委会（收）

    邮编：100871


***Submissions should not exceed 1,800 words (or 3,000 characters for papers submitted in Chinese), and should be accompanied by a 200 words abstract (500 characters in Chinese). The submission should include an indication, prominently displayed, of the section for which the contributed paper is intended and shall be written in one of the official languages of the Congress.


Circulars & Program

The World Congress of Philosophy is organized every five years by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) in collaboration with one of its member societies. 

The XXIV World Congress will be held in Beijing, China, from August 13 to August 20, 2018, under the auspices of the Chinese Organizing Committee. 

The complementary aims of the 2018 Congress include an emphasis on exploring dimensions of the human and inquiring into the challenges facing humanity:
To globalize philosophical investigations to encompass the diverse forms of philosophizing by past and present thinkers across cultures, with special attention to critical reflections on philosophy itself and the tasks and functions of philosophy in the contemporary world;
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To open the philosophical area to enable philosophers to address emerging global issues through fruitful interactions with other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with other activities in economic, social, political, and religious spheres, as well as with diverse cultures and traditions;
To encourage philosophical reflections to become public discourses on recurrent human concerns, such as ecology, justice, and peace. Endowed with arguably the longest history of cultural continuity but deeply challenged by severe ruptures in its modern transformation, China provides a unique locale to raise fundamental questions about self, community, nature, spirituality, traditions, and modernity, evoking the idea of philosophy as practice as well as theory. 

The 2018 Congress invites discussions on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of philosophy and philosophers to enhance a common awareness of “learning to be human.” It is committed to attending to problems, conflicts, inequalities, and injustices connected with the development of a planetary civilization that is simultaneously technoscientific and multicultural.

PLENARY SESSIONS
1. Self
2. Community
3. Nature
4. Spirituality
5. Traditions
SYMPOSIA
1. Ren, Ubuntu, Love, and the Heart
2. Mind, Brain, Body, Consciousness, Emotions
3. Philosophy at the Margins: Domination,
Freedom, and Solidarity
4. Rights, Responsibility, and Justice
5. Human, Non-human, Post-human
6. Science, Technology, and the Environment
7. Creativity, Symbol, and Aesthetic Sense
8. Reason, Wisdom, and the Good Life
9. Expressibility, Dialogue, Translatability
10. Differences, Diversities, and Commonality

SECTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
1. Aesthetics and philosophies of art
2. African philosophy
3. Africana philosophy
4. Ancient Greek philosophy
i. Presocratic philosophy
ii. Classical Greek philosophy
iii. Hellenistic philosophy
iv. Neo-Platonic philosophy
5. Bioethics
6. Buddhist philosophy
7. Business ethics
8. Byzantine philosophy
9. Chinese philosophy
i. Pre-Qin philosophy
ii. Philosophy from Han to Qing
iii. Modern Chinese philosophy
iv. Contemporary Chinese philosophy
10. Christian philosophy
11. Comparative philosophy
12. Conceptual history
13. Confucian philosophy
14. Contemporary philosophy
15. Contemporary philosophies in China
16. Cosmopolitanism
17. Daoist philosophy
18. East Asian and Southeast Asian philosophies
19. Environmental philosophy
20. Ethics
21. Ethics in research
22. Existential philosophy
23. Experimental philosophy
24. History of analytic philosophy
25. History of philosophy
26. Humanism and post-humanism
27. Human rights
28. Indian philosophies
29. Intercultural philosophy
30. Islamic philosophy
31. Jewish philosophy
32. Latin American philosophy
33. Logic
34. Marxist philosophy
35. Medical ethics
36. Medieval philosophy
37. Metaphilosophy
38. Metaphysics
39. Mystical traditions in philosophy
40. Moral psychology
41. Ontology
42. Phenomenology
43. Philosophical anthropology
44. Philosophical counseling and therapy
45. Philosophical hermeneutics
46. Philosophical issues about race
47. Philosophy and cinema
48. Philosophy and linguistics
49. Philosophy and literature
50. Philosophy and popular culture
51. Philosophy and oral traditions
52. Philosophy and psychoanalysis
53. Philosophy at the margins
54. Philosophy for children
55. Philosophy of action
56. Philosophy of architecture
57. Philosophy of argumentation
58. Philosophy of artificial intelligence
59. Philosophy of cognitive neurosciences
60. Philosophy of communication
61. Philosophy of culture
62. Philosophy of death
63. Philosophy of development
64. Philosophy of economics
65. Philosophy of education
66. Philosophy of family
67. Philosophy of food
68. Philosophy of gender
69. Philosophy of globalization
70. Philosophy of history
71. Philosophy of indigenous cultures
72. Philosophy of information and digital culture
73. Philosophy of language
74. Philosophy of law
75. Philosophy of liberation
76. Philosophy of logic
77. Philosophy of mathematics
78. Philosophy of mind
79. Philosophy of music
80. Philosophy of nature
81. Philosophy of physics
82. Philosophy of religion
83. Philosophy of science
84. Philosophy of sex and love
85. Philosophy of sport
86. Philosophy of technology
87. Philosophy of the axial age
88. Philosophy of the body
89. Philosophy of the human and social sciences
90. Philosophy of the life sciences
91. Philosophy of values
92. Political philosophy
93. Postmodernism
94. Renaissance and early modern philosophy
95. Russian philosophy
96. Social philosophy
97. Sociology of philosophy
98. Teaching philosophy
99. Theories of knowledge and epistemology

ENDOWED LECTURES
There will be at least five endowed lectures, named Ibn Roshd, Maimonides, Kierkegaard, Dasan, and Wang Yangming.

1. REN, UBUNTU, LOVE, AND THE HEART
Chair
Pia Søltoft (Denmark)

Speakers
Graham Parkes (Ireland)   
Abiola Irele (Nigeria)  
Zhang Xianglong (China)
Eleonore Stump (USA)

2. MIND, BRAIN, BODY, CONSCIOUSNESS, EMOTIONS
Chair
Amita Chatterjee (India)   

Speakers
Sean Gallagher (USA)  
Jonardon Ganeri (UK)   

3. PHILOSOPHY AT THE MARGINS: DOMINATION, FREEDOM, AND SOLIDARITY
Chair
Dimitrios Chitzos (Greece)

Speakers
Charles-Romain Mbelé (Cameroon)
Sally J. Scholz (USA)

4. RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITY, AND JUSTICE
Chair
Bhuvan Chandel (India)   

Speakers
Julian Nida-Ruemelin (Germany)    
Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Thailand)
Yao Xinzhong (China)   
Sally Haslanger (USA)
   
5. HUMAN, NON-HUMAN, POST-HUMAN
Chair

Speakers
Sangkyu Shin (Korea)     
Lars Fredrik Svendsen (Norway)   
Rosi Braidotti (Australia/Netherlands)

6. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chair
Ilkka Niiniluoto (Finland)   

Speakers
Vyacheslav Stiopin (Russia)
J Baird Callicott (USA)
Helen Longino (USA)
Peter Kemp (Denmark)   

7. CREATIVITY, SYMBOL, AND AESTHETIC SENSE
Chair
Gao Jianping (China)   

Speakers
Karsten Harries (USA)
Bashshar Haydar (Lebanon)
Jean-Godefroy Bidima (Cameroon)
Lydia Goehr (USA)

8. REASON, WISDOM, AND THE GOOD LIFE
Chair
Nam-In Lee (Korea)   

Speakers
Arindam Chakrabarti (India)    
Maurizio Ferraris (Italy)  
Pavlos Kalligàs (Greece)

9. EXPRESSIBILITY, DIALOGUE, TRANSLATABILITY
Chair
Barbara Cassin (France)

Speakers
Paul Healy (Australia)
Anat Matar (Israel)   
Michael Beaney (UK)    

10. DIFFERENCES, DIVERSITY, COMMONALITY
Chair
Vincent Shen (Canada)   

Speakers
Ram Adhar Mall (India)   
Tan, Sor-Hoon (Singapore)


Sincerely yours,

Olivera Z. Mijuskovic
&
Stefano Ulliana,

Presidency and Secretariat of The WPN

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