The results for the 2007-08 Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) exercise were announced over the summer. Dr. Cook and Professor Hansen each obtained a large grant. Congratulations to them!
Professor Hansen
A philosophical approach to the Daode Jing
Dr Cook
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany, the salutary science
Emptiness 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”
