Event Detail
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Thu Oct 2, 2014 223 Moses Hall |
Conference Global Philosophy? European, Asian, and American Perspectives |
Session 1
The encounter of Western philosophy with Non-Western thought
9 am: Michael Foster, University of Bonn and University of Chicago, “Does Western Philosophy Have Non-western Roots?”
10 am: Katharina Kaiser, University of California at Berkeley, “Alterity in Art, or Why We Need the Foreign.”
11 am: Toru Kashima, Waseda University, Japan, “Toward an Alter-globalization of Philosophy. Walter Benjamin reads the Japanese classic literature of the 10th century.”
Session 2:
Global Questions from a local perspective
2 pm: Han Lin He, Peking University, “Man is a rule-following animal”
3 pm: Jens Rometsch, University of Bonn, “On the epistemological role of freedom”
4 pm: Markus Gabriel, University of Bonn, “What kind of an idealist (if any) is Hegel?”