Professor Chad Hansen will be retiring from HKU this summer. The philosophy dept will be holding an international conference in his honour on May 30 & 31. Details here.
Dao, Mind, and Language: A Conference in Honour of Chad Hansen
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Professor Ned Block visiting HKU in May 2008
March 26, 2008Professor Ned Block will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor at HKU during 3 – 17 May 2008. He works in the area of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Please see http://www.hku.hk/philodep/block for a list of his lectures and workshops.
His public lecture “How to find consciousness in the brain” is on Thursday 15th May 2008.
Time: 5pm-7pm (refreshments will be served after the lecture)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU
Dr. Cook – recent activities
September 13, 2007Forthcoming publication:
“The Septième Promenade of the Rêveries: A Peculiar Account of Rousseau’s Botany?” In J. O’Neal, ed., The Nature of Rousseau’s Reveries, special volume of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (early 2008).
Invited speaker:
“La traduction de Rousseau en tant que réception,” colloquium Equipe Rousseau, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 24 May 2008.
Colloquium on botanical gardens and herbaria, Linnean Society, London, 15 May 2008.
“The Herbarium as an instrument of social reform,” Herbarium Workshop, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, 11 December 2007.
“The disciple critiques the Master: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Linnaean nomenclature,” Les mots et les choses au XVIIIe siècle: la science, “langue bien faite?” Université Lumière-Lyon 2, 22 September 2007.
Recent Conference papers
“Between Praxis and Episteme: the herbarium as boundary object,” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Exeter, U.K., 26 July 2007.
“Communicating science at a distance: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s botanical correspondence,” Twelfth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Montpellier, France, 10 July 2007.
“Early-Modern European ‘linguistic imperialism’ in botany: The case of Chinese Plants,” British Society for the History of Science, University of Manchester, U.K., 28 June 2007.
Conference on Buddhism and Daoism
September 12, 2007Emptiness and nothingness: Conference on Buddhism and Daoism
Funded by the Louis Cha Fund for East/West Studies
Friday 5 – Sat 6, October, 2007
Dept of Philosophy
The University of Hong Kong
This conference is open only to invited participants. For more details, please contact Dr. Joe Lau
Speakers
Miri Albahari, University of Western Australia
“Clarifying the nature of witness-consciousness”
Graham Priest, University of Melbourne
“The structure of emptiness”
Chad Hansen, University of Hong Kong
“Dao as a mereological non-thing”
Jonathan Chan, Baptist University of Hong Kong
“How to understand Dao – A pragmatic approach”
Leo Cheung Kam Ching, Baptist University of Hong Kong
“Laozi’s Dao as a Structured Whole and Its Ineffability”
Chris Fraser, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Psychological Emptiness in the Zhuangzi”
Zhihua Yao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Empty Subject Terms in Buddhist Logic”
Joe Lau, University of Hong Kong
“Emptiness, dispositionalism, and conceptual constructions”
