10th Biennial Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association (APPSA)

Conference Venue

College of Arts and Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam

Conference Date

21-22 July 2023

Topic Areas

· Philosophy of Science

· Philosophy of Technology

· Historical and Sociological Studies of Science and Technology

Details

The Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association (APPSA) invites papers for its upcoming 10th biennial meeting to be held at VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam. The theme of the conference is “Philosophical Challenges at the Frontiers of Science and Technology”. Papers can cover any theme from the philosophy of science and technology, and we particularly welcome approaches situated in the Asian context, whether that is from philosophy, history or the sociological study of science and technology.

Tentative Agenda

Time	Room C401	Room C402
Friday 21^st July
8.00am	Registration + Coffee
8.30am	Opening Ceremony
9.00-11.00am	AI and Robotics I: Epistemology and Metaphysics Chair: Billy Wheeler	Metaphysics in Science I Chair: Michael Clark
	An Embodied-Cognitive Approach to Robot Deception – Young E. Rhee	Function and Equilibrium – Jia Li
	Can we Trust Lying Robots – Callum Whittle	Can Solitarily Trapped Quantum Objects Have Identity and Individuality?: A Critical Examination of the Experimental Realization Conception of Individuality – Keigo Imai
	Toward an AI Epistemology – Jun Otsuka	Causation and Two Types of Dependence – Murali Ramachandran
	From Chalmers’ Singularity to Bergson’s Creative Evolution – Pham Minh Duc	Type Causation, Underdeterministically – Tom Wysocki
11.00am	Tea/Coffee Break
11.30-1.00pm	General Philosophy of Science Chair: Nguyen Quang Minh	Buddhism, Science & Technology Chair: Soraj Hongladarom
	Patient Involvement in Psychiatry – Mitsue Sugimoto	A Buddhist take on Mathematical Realism – Aditya Jha
	The Intertwined relationship of knowledge and values in shared decision making – Yun-Ying Kuo	Buddhist Emptiness in Biological Systems: from an Individual, Cellular, and Molecular Perspective – Nguyen Hoang Hai
	Climate Denialism Bullshit is Harmful – Joshua Luczak	Resonance, Return, and the Receding Dharma: The Three Teachings’ Perspectives of Nature and The Place of Vietnamese Millenarianism in Addressing the Environmental Exigencies of the Mekong Delta – Hoai Tran
1.00-2.00pm	Lunch in Canteen
2.00-4.00pm	Realism and Antirealism I Chair: Jonathan Hricko	Science, Technology and Society Chair: Callum Whittle
	Can There be Practical Differences between Scientific Realists and Anti-realists? – Dong Wook Jung	Outside in: An External Approach to Technologically Moral Enhancement – Ching Hung
	Two Approaches to Underdetermination – Yick-Hei Chan	Marxist viewpoint on personality in the face of challenges posed by modern scientific and technological achievements – Pham Trang
	The Legitimacy of the Selectionist Antirealism – Min OuYang	Hiromatsu’s Philosophy of Science – Katsumori Makoto
	The Dilemma of the Upward Path to Structural Realism and the MR Principle – Lee Hanseul	Is Science Multicultural? Should it Be? – Jeongmin Lee
4.00pm	Tea/Coffee Break
4.30-5.30	Keynote: Soraj Hongladarom Title: Towards Virtuous AI Chair: Michael Clark
5.30pm	Dinner
Saturday July 22^nd
8.30-10.30am	Metaphysics in Science II Chair: Pham Minh Duc	AI and Robotics II: Society and Human Values Chair: Jun Otsuka
	Formalizing Historical Causal Conceptions: A Causal Modelling Account – Richard Hou	The Dynamics of Personal Autonomy: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Human-Carebot Interactions – Linus Huang
	The Metaphysics of Mechanisms: An Ontic Structural Realist Perspective – Yihan Jiang	Rethinking AI: Exploring the Recent Controversy over AI from the perspective of Stiegler’s Philosophy of Technology – In Kim
	The Principle of the Identity of Indiscernible (PII): An Example of Organizing Principles – HU Xiaoqian (Lara)	Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Meaningful Work – Lucas Scripter
	Grounding and Brute Contingency: Resurrecting and Old Problem for Field’s Demathematisation of Science – Michael Clark	Ethical Rationality of Artificial Agents from a Multicultural Point of View – Guihong Zhang
10.30	Tea/Coffee Break
11.00	Modelling, Analogies and Scientific Reasoning Chair: HU Xiaoqian (Lara)
	Relevance of Non-Epistemic Values in Epidemic Modelling – Joby Varghese
	Analogical Reasoning in Traditional Mathematics of East and South-East Asia – Alexei Volkov
	Tool-Afforded Causal Reasoning in Neurophysiology – Karen Yan
12.30	Lunch in Canteen
2.00-4.00	Realism and Antirealism II Chair: Dong Wook Jung	Scientific Explanation Chair: Ching Hung
	Can a conspiracy theory be a legitimate alternative hypothesis? An Exercise in applied philosophy of science – Tetsuji Iseda	When Interest-Based Explanations Succeed – Yuichi Amitani
	Empirical Adequacy and Scientific Practice – Jonathon Hricko	The Dual Nature of Explicability – Hyundeuk Cheon
	Scientific Conceptual Revision and Race – Tim Fuller	The Counterfactual Contextualist Account of Explanatory Understanding – Byeongho Lee
	In what sense was Reichenbach’s philosophy of space and time “empirical”, not “conventional”? – Hyeong-gu Kang	Towards a Cognitive Approach to Scientific Explanation – An Soyeong
4.00-4.30	Tea/Coffee Break
4.00	(APPSA Committee Meeting)
4.30	Closing Comments Roundtable + Group Photograph
5.00	Beach BBQ

Proceedings

Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special edition of the Asian Journal of Philosophy (ISSN 2731-4642 Springer). Those wishing to be considered for publication in the conference proceedings must be prepared to submit a blind manuscript of around 8000 words by the end of October 2023.

Keynote Speaker

· Prof. Soraj Hongladarom

Soraj Hongladarom is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published books and articles on such diverse issues as bioethics, computer ethics, and the roles that science and technology play in the culture of developing countries. His books include Information Technology Ethics: A Cultural Perspective (2006), The Online Self: Externalism, Friendship and Games (2016), A Buddhist Theory of Privacy (2015), and The Ethics of AI and Robotics: A Buddhist Viewpoint (2021).

Registration:

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