The Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy is pleased to announce that its director, Philip J. Ivanhoe, has been awarded a conference grant from The American Council of Learned Societies, with support from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange in the amount of $25,000.00 USD. This generous grant, along with additional support from the institute, will be used to host an international conference on Confucianism, Buddhism, and Kantian Moral Theory, 6-7 September 2019 on the historic campus of Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. Presentations at the conference will explore contemporary trends in moral theory by bringing together influential and promising philosophers, East and West, who work at the intersection between Confucian, Buddhist, and Kantian moral theory. The goal is for them not only to share their views, but also to meet, listen to, and exchange ideas and arguments with one another with the aim of fostering a greater global perspective, deeper and more productive intercultural exchange, and future collaboration. The invited philosophers represent a geographically diverse group as well as a variety of interests and points of view. They all, though, are trained in and share the approach of analytic philosophy, which, it is hoped, will help to shed light upon the traditions, topics, and problems that serve as the theme of this meeting.
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