Dào, Mind, and Language:
A Conference in Honour of Chad Hansen

Friday May 30^th, 9:30am – 5:30pm

and

Saturday May 31^st, 9:30am – 5:30pm

Convocation Room, M218 Main Building, HKU.

Conference Programme (subject to change)

Friday, May 30^th

Session 1: 9:30 am – 10:30 am. Moderator: Timothy O’Leary

Welcoming remarks (5 – 10 min)

Keynote talk (30 min) by Chad Hansen: “On the Dao of the Daodejing”

Discussion (20 min)

Coffee break

Session 2: 10:50 am - 12:30 pm (Chair: Dan Robins)

Roger Ames, University of Hawaii: “Still a Dimpled Chad: Hansen on Confucianism as a Virtue Ethic”

Frank Perkins, Depaul University: “No Need for Hemlock: Mengzi’s Defense of Tradition.”

Peimin Ni, Grand Valley State University: “The Language of Dialogue and Confucian Rectification of Names.”

Response by Chad Hansen

Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Session 3: 2:00 pm – 3:40 pm (Chair: TBA)

Fung Yiuming, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: “A Logical Analysis of Parallelism in the Mohist Canons.”

Manyul Im, Fairfield University: “Nominalism and its Motivation in the White Horse Dialogue.”

Kai Yee Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Written Graphs and the Idea Idea”

Response by Chad Hansen

Discussion

Coffee break

Session 4: 4:00 pm – 5:40 pm (Chair: TBA)

Sin yee Chan, University of Vermont: “The influence of Mozi and Laozi on Xunzi's psychology.”

Bill Haines, University of Hong Kong: “Confucian Sensibility and the Outer Theater”

Jiwei Ci, University of Hong Kong: “Reflections on Daodejing 38.”

Response by Chad Hansen

Discussion

6:30 pm Banquet

Saturday, May 31^st

Session 5: 9:30 am – 10:40 am (Chair: TBA)

Lisa Raphals, University of California at Riverside: (topic TBA)

Lee Yearley, Stanford University: “Poetic Language: Zhuangzi and Du Fu’s Confucian Ideals.”

Response by Chad Hansen

Discussion

Coffee break

Session 6: 11:00 am – 12:10 am (Chair: TBA)

Doug Berger, Southern Illinois University: "Did Buddhism Ever Go East? The Westernization of Buddhist Philosophy in Hansen's Daoist Historiography."

P.J. Ivanhoe, City University of Hong Kong: “Moral Tradition Respect”

Response by Chad Hansen

Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Session 7: 2:00 pm – 3:40 pm (Chair: TBA)

Fang Wan-chuan, Academia Sinica: “Hansen on Skill and Dao in Zhuangzi.”

Dan Robins, Richard Stockton College: “It Goes Beyond Skill.”

Chris Fraser, Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Skepticism and Value in Zhuāngzǐ.”

Response by Chad Hansen

Discussion

Coffee break

Session 8: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (Moderator: Chris Fraser)

General discussion panel: “Dao, Mind, and Language: Future Directions in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy”

Panelists: Chad Hansen, Lee Yearley, Lisa Raphals, Manyul Im