Conference Presentations
2023: “Co-Existence and Harmony: Non-Linear Dynamics of Social Interaction” The 7TH World Humanities Forum (Busan, South Korea 11/8, 2023)
2023: “Seongho Yi Ik’s Theory of Mind-Brain: Aristotle’s De Anima and Neo-Confucian Adaptation of
the Brain Theory of Cognition” Annual NAKPA Conference (Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, November 9, 2023)
2023: “Toegye and Toegye School in Korean Neo-Confucianism” International Academic Workshop - Spiritual and Religious Characteristics of Korean Confucianism (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul South Korea, October 27, 2023)
2023: “Mind Theory (Simseol 心說) and Mind Cultivation (Sooyang 修養) Theory of the Simseol Debate” International Conference on Mind and Mind Cultivation, (University of Prince Edward Island, June 22-23, 2023).
2023: “Breaking the Border of Perceptual Modality: Synesthesia, Artistic Imagination, and the Embodied Reality” Opening Presentation for the Sixteenth Annual Geo-Aesthetics Conference, Towson University (Baltimore, March 17-18, 2023).
2023: "Embodied Consciousness of Mindfulness: Affordances and Affectances." 4Th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: 4E’s Approach to the Mind/Brain. Catholic University of Portugal (Braga Portugal, March 6 – 8, 2023)
2023: “Confucian Moral Psychology and Moral Sentimentalism” ISCP session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1/8/2023).
2023: “Moral Psychology of Embodied Affect and Jeong/Qing (Emotional Attachment) in Korean Culture” NAKPA session (1/6/2023) APA Eastern Division Meeting, (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1/7/2023).
2023: “Moral Psychology of Mind-Cultivation in Korean Neo-Confucian Philosophy” NAKPA session (1/6/2023) APA Eastern Division Meeting, (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1/6/2023).
2022: “Understanding Korean Neo-Confucianism from the Perspective of Moral Development” NAKPA (North America, Korean Philosophy Association) Conference, 11/13-11/17 (University Nebraska Omaha & Creighton University, Nebraska)
2022: “Cross-Linguistic Communication among Different Cultures of Shame” Cross-Linguistic Disagreement Conference, (hosted by the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) (Kanazawa/Ishikawa, Japan, July 14-15/2022).
2022: “AI, Robotics, and Buddhism” in Foundations and Applications of AI: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Department of Philosophy, Peking [Beijing] University, Beijing China (April 8 – 10)
2022: “Affecting Presence and the Openness of Embodied Sensitivity” Fifteenth Annual Geo-Aesthetics Conference, Towson University (March, 18-19, 2022).
2022: “Moral Psychology of the Mencian Creature: How is it different from the Kantian, the Humean, and the Rawlsian creatures?” ISCP session, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb 2022).
2022: “Philosophy and Moral Psychology of Shame: Korean Words of Shame in Comparison to Japanese Words of Shame” NAKPA session, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb 2022).
2022: “Religious Experience of Mindfulness and Metaphysics of Corporeal Consciousness” SoPheRe (Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience) session, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb 2022).
2022: “Two Approaches to Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy and Western Psychology” ISCP session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore (Jan 2022).
2022: “The Simseol Debate: The Debate of the Moral Mind and the End of Moral Metaphysics” NAKPA session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore (Jan 2022).
2022: “Philosophy of Mind and Moral Psychology in Korean Neo-Confucianism” Main Program (sponsored by APA) APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore (Jan 2022).
2021: “Music and the Pandemic Positive Experience of Sad Music” Geoaesthetics Conference (Aesthetics at the Time of the Pandemic), Towson University, 5/28 – 5/29/2021.
2021: “The Duality of Confucian Emotion and Moral Empathy” ISCP session, APA Central Division Meeting, New Orleans (Virtual) (Feb 2021).
2021: “Marginalization and De-Marginalization: Future of Robotic AI in East Asian Buddhism” The WiGiP/GiP Conference on Intercultural Philosophy. Demarginalising Futures: rethinking embodiment, community, and culture (Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie), Tubingen, Germany (Virtual) (February 19, 2021 - February 20, 2021)
2021: APA Eastern Division Meeting, “Unaroused (Weifa/Mibal) Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism in Korean Neo-Confucianism” NAKPA session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 2021).
2021: “Empathy Pessimism and Confucian Empathy” ISCWP session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 2021).
2020: “Supervenience of Moral Emotion and the Four Seven Debate” APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb, 2020).
2020: Author Meets Critics: The Emotional Mind, by Asma and Gabriel APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb, 2020)
2020: “Sunzi’s Art and Ethics of War: Just War Theory and Intelligence Ethics.” ISCP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (Jan, 2020).
2020: “The Pure Consciousness and Emotion in the Horak Debate of Korean Neo-Confucianism.” NAKPA Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (Jan, 2020).
2019: “Strange Emotion, Strong Moral Sense: Moral Psychology and Moral Metaphysics of Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism” Annual NAKPA Conference, University College Cork, Ireland, Oct 11, 2019.
2019: “Confucian Moral Psychology and Neuroscience of Embodied Empathy.” The 21st International Conference of ISCP (the International Society for Chinese Philosophy), July, University of Bern, Switzerland.
2019: “War and Leadership: Sunzi’s Art of War and Fiedler’s Contingency Model” at the 2nd Annual Pennsylvania Leadership Studies Conference, April 6, Dixon University Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
2019: “The Homelessness, the Uncanny (Unheimlichkeit), and the Corporeal Consciousness”
Presented at the Fourteenth Geo-Aesthetics Conference March 15, 2019 Towson University
2019: “The Body and Moral Cultivation in Confucian Music.” Asian Philosophy Symposium at the Gettysburg College. (Feb 8, 2019).
2019: “Mencius’s Moral Psychology of Empathy: Buren (empathic unbearableness) and Ren (compassion)” Presented at ISCP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 9, 2019).
2019: “Moral Psychology of the Heart-Mind and Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism”
Presented at NAKPA Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 8, 2019).
2018: “Embodied Space of Menus and Lists” in Conference on “Space and Time: An Interdisciplinary Approach” in Vilnius University, Vilnius Lithuania (September, 27–29, 2018).
2018: “Good, Evil, and Beyond: Explanation of Morality in Li-Qi Metaphysics and Korean Neo-Confucianism” at the International Conference on Asian Studies; Good and Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality in University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada (June, 2018).
2018: Sensible Narratives of Representational and Non-Representable Music in Confucianism. Eleventh Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, (March 16-17, 2018).
2018: Transcendence and Immanence of Confucian Heaven from the Perspective of Moral Psychology and Moral Development. Presented at the APA Committee Session: Central Division Meeting, Chicago, (Feb, 2018)
2018: Integrity of Vulnerability and Vulnerability of Integrity: Ing’s Conception of Moral Integrity. Presented at the APA Committee Session: Central Division Meeting, Chicago, (Feb, 2018)
2018: Philosophy and Aesthetics of Confucian Music. Presented at SACP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (Jan, 2018).
2018: Confucian Philosophy and Developmental Psychology. Presented at ISCWP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (Jan, 2018).
2018: Misunderstandings of Li-Qi (理氣) Moral Psychology in the Four Seven Debate (四七 論爭) and the Horak Debate (湖洛論爭) of Korean Neo-Confucianism. Presented at NAKPA Session, APA, Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (Jan 2018).
2017: Embodied Cognition meets Wang Yangming’s Organismic Neo-Confucianism:
Frisina’s “Organicism and Pursuit of an Embodied Theory of Mind” Presented at the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy (Columbia University, New York, May, 5, 2017)
2017: “Cognitive and Developmental Interpretation of Confucian Ritual and Music: Xunzi’s philosophy of moral and aesthetic pleasure” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Pacific Division (Seattle), April, 2017.
2017: “Neo-Confucian Criticism of Buddhism: A philosophical and linguistic analysis of Jeong Do Jeon’s criticism of Buddhism” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Pacific Division (Seattle), April, 2017.
2017: “Earworm and Embodied Musical Imagery” Tenth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 17-18, 2017.
2017: “Moral Autonomy, Heteronomy, and Communonomy in Early Confucian Philosophy” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Baltimore), January, 2017.
2017: “Xunzi’s Epistemological and Moral Psychological Theory of Xin: Xin as a meta-faculty” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Baltimore), January, 2017.
2017: Commenting on David Wong’s “Early Confucian Philosophy and Development of Compassion” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Baltimore), January, 2017.
2016: “Xunzi’s Theory of Mind” The 34th annual Society of Ancient philosophy Conference in Fordham University October, 29, 2016
2016: “Confucian Ethics and Psychopathy from the Perspective of Moral Development” MARAAS Conference (MidAtlantic Region Association for Asian Studies), Baltimore October 15, 2016
2016: “Neuroaesthetics of Musical Pleasure: Purposeful Purposelessness of Musical Chills” The International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul South Korea (July 25 - 29, 2016)
2016: “Autistic Moral Agency and Integrative Neuroethics” Neuroscience Conference - Does Neuroscience Have Normative Implications? Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (April, 15 – 16, 2016)
2016: “Evolutionary Psychology and Confucian Shame” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Pacific Division, San Francisco, (April 1, 2016)
2016: “Embodied Religious Experience of Mindfulness Meditation” Presented at the Embodied Religious Experience Workshop, Princeton University (March 14-16, 2016)
2016: Comment on Richard Kim’s “Early Confucianism and Contemporary Empirical Psychology” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, (Washington, D.C.) January, 2016.
2016: “Confucian Ethics and Psychopathy from the Perspective of Moral Development” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Washington D.C.), January, 2016.
2015: “Heaven and Moral Efficacy: Stoic Way and Confucian Way” The 33rd annual Society of Ancient philosophy Conference in Fordham University October, 25, 2015
2015: “Constructive Moral Emotion: Xunzi and Prinz” Symposium on Chinese Philosophy: New Directions in Chinese Philosophy. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. October, 24, 2015
2015: “Computer Menus and Restaurant Menus: Embodied Spatial Metaphors” The Third Annual Lehigh University Conference in Philosophy: Metaphors in Use, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. October 8 - 9, 2015
2015: “Musical Festivity and Confucian Virtuoso” Eighth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, September 25-26, 2015.
2015: “Zombies, Psychopaths, and Confucian Village Worthies: Internalist Interpretation of Confucian Moral Psychology.” ISCP (International Society for Chinese Philosophy) Conference (Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 24, 2015)
2015: “Is Wu-wei Hot or Cold? Slingerland’s Trying not to Try”APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Pacific Division, Philadelphia, (4/1/2015)
2015: “Moral Heteronomy and Confucian Philosophy” the International Conference on Asian Studies, Scranton University, Scranton, PA
2014: Comment on Lynne Hong’s “Exploring the Discourse of Self in Chapter One of the Zhuangzi” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, (12/30/2014)
2014: “Neuroscience of Mindfulness and Buddhist Moral Psychology” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, (12/28/2014)
2014: “Moral Psychology of Emotion and Toegye’s (Yi Hwang’s) Neo-Confucianism” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, (12/28/2014)
2014: “Virtues and Meta-Virtues in Confucianism” The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (Fordham University, New York. 10/24 – 10/26, 2014)
2014: “Toegye’s and Kobong’s Moral Metaphysics of Li and Qi” The Spirit of Korean Philosophy: Six Debates and Their Significance for Asian and Western Philosophy. North American Korean Philosophy Association Conference. University of Omaha, (Omaha, Nebraska. 10/22/2014)
2014: “Cultural Evolution of Shame” International and Interdisciplinary Conference - Language, Culture, and Reality: East and West - University of Pennsylvania (Department of South Asia Studies, South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania & Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange, University of Pennsylvania) 10/3 ~ 10/4/2014
2014: “Theories of Space and Emptiness: Ancient Atomism, Mozi, and Dedekind” The Second Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice, (Nanyang Technological University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences) 8/19 ~ 8/20/2014
2014: “Moral Psychology of Buddhist Meditation” 49th Annual Conference for the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) (SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 6/19 ~ 6/22/2014)
2014: “Hermeneutics, History, and Ming (Fate) in Confucian philosophy”, The Hermeneutics East and West Conference, Penn State University, College Park, PA. 5/16 - 17, 2014
2014: “Biological, Cultural, and Moral Evolution of Shame: From Survival Strategy and Social Exchange to Moral Excellence” (The 30th Conference on Value Inquiry (Evolution and Foundations of Ethics, Neumann University, Aston PA 5/1 ~ 5/3/2014.
2014: “Moral Asymmetry: Honesty and Dishonesty” Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/26/2014)
2014: “Neuro-Aesthetics and the Phenomenology of Music” Sixth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 14-15, 2014.
2014: “Confucian Self-Cultivation and Meta-Virtue” SACP session in APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Central Division, Chicago, (3/1/2014)
2013: “Four Seven Debate and Moral Psychology of Korean Confucianism” Invited Session on Korean Philosophy, APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (December, 2013)
2013: “Moral Virtuosity, Moral Improvisation, and Moral Sense in Confucian Spontaneity” Invited Session on Spontaneity, APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (December, 2013)
2013: Commenting on (David Chai’s "Mental Blindness and Moral Rectitude: the Jeibi Chapter of the Xunzi" ACPA session in APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (12/28/2013)
2013: Commenting on a paper (H. Kim’s “Emotion and Judgment: Two Roots of Moral Motivation in Mengzi”) ACPA session in APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (12/28/2013)
2013: “Negative Confucian Virtue” The 31th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (Fordham University, New York. 2013)
2013: “Moral Luck and Confucian Philosophy” The 18th International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Buffalo, NY. (July, 2013).
2013: Commenting on a paper (Ellie HuaWang’s The New Situationist Challenge and a Potential Xunzian Reply”) APA (American Philosophical Association) conference, Pacific Division, San Francisco, (March, 2013).
2013: “Neuro-Aestheticcs and Embodied Expression of Beauty” Fifth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 8-9, 2013.
2013: "Negative Virtues and the Sustainability Approach" in the seventh annual Felician ethics conference (April 20, 2013, Felician College, Rutherford NJ).
2013: “Shame as a Moral Disposition: Confucian Shame and Virtue” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Central Division, New Orleans, LA (February, 2013)
2012: “Embodied Moral Cognition and Confucian Philosophy” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division (Atlanta, GA, December, 2012)
2012: “Supervenience and Confucian Virtue” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division (Atlanta, GA, December, 2012)
2012: “Correlative Homology and Confucian Moral Virtue” The 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (Fordham University, New York. 10/19 -10/21 /2012)
2012: "Other-Regarding Emotion without Sympathy" Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/21/2012)
2012: “What is Qing? A Situationist Interpretation” APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Pacific Division (Seattle, WA 4/7/2012)
2012: “The Body and the Sensuousness: What do restaurant menus, websites, and grocery aisle lists tell us about the body and the space of the sensuousness? Fourth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 8-9, 2012.
2012: “Buren (不忍) and Ren (仁): Mencius’s Theory of Moral Emotion” APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Central Division (Chicago, 2/17/2012)
2011: Comment and Review of “Virtue, Education, and Liberty” (David Elstein) APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Eastern Division, (Washington DC 12/28/2011)
2011: “Embodied Ren in Confucianism,” in the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy (Invited Lecture) Columbia University, (New York, 11/11/2011).
2011: Does Mencius Care? The Heart of Compassion and Care, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Pacific Division, (San Diego, 2011)
2011: Empathy, Moral Agency, and Autism, Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/30/2011)
2011: Sensual Experience of Non-Sensuous Things. Third Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, March 11-12, 2011.
2010: Mencius’s Ceyinzhixin (the heart of compassion) and the moral psychology of empathy, The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (New York. 10/15 - 17/2010)
2010: Moral Psychology of Korean Neo--Confucianism, the Four Seven Debate and ToeGye’s Dualism, The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (New York. 10/15 - 17/2010)
2010: “Ethics and Scientific Research” – Panel Discussion
45th MAALACT (Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers) Conference, Session on educational issues and ethics, 11/6/2010
2010: Character of Situation? A Confucian Response to Situational Social Psychology, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Pacific Division, (San Francisco 3/31- 4/4 2010)
2010: One and the Others, Other-Regarding Orientation of Confucian Moral Philosophy, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Central Division (Chicago, 2/18/2010)
2009: Emotion and Embodied Cognition, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Eastern Division, (New York 12/27-30/2009)
2009: Confucian Virtue, Arête or not, The 5th International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/16 - 18/2009)
2009: “Is shame a virtue? Moral psychology of shame and virtue.” Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/18/2009)
2009: “Cognitive Science and Confucian Reciprocity” AAS (Association for Asian Studies) Conference, Chicago 2009 3/26-29/2009)
2009: “The Value and Beauty of Open Space: Is Space Empty Nothingness?” International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place; Geo-Aesthetics Conference, Towson University, (Baltimore, MD. 3/6-7 2009)
2009: “Virtue and Emotion: Moral Psychology of Early Confucian Philosophy”, Neo-Confucian Study, Columbia University, (New York, 2/6/2009)
2008: Comment and Review of “Moral Agency and Applied Ethics in Asian and Comparative Thought” APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Eastern Division, (Philadelphia 12/28-30/2008)
2008: “Shame and Self in Ancient China and Ancient Greece” The 4th International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/24 - 26/2008)
2008: “Franciscan Themes in Leadership Philosophy: The Power Based Leadership and Service Based Leadership” AFCU Symposium (Reading, PA 6/5-6/7/2008)
2008: “Confucian Error: Emotion in Confucian Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Moral Psychology” Annual Meeting of APA (the American Philosophical Association, Central Division), (Chicago, 4/16 – 4/19/2008).
2008: “How Modular is ToM (Theory of Mind)?” SSPP Conference, the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (New Orleans, 3/20-22/2007).
2007: “Empty Heart and Metaphysical Emotion of the Neo-Confucian Mind" The Fourth International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/21/2007)
2007: “Non-Taxomic Reasoning and Conflict Resolution in Chinese Philosophy” the 24th International Social Philosophy Conference, hosted by (NASSP) North American Society for Social Philosophy (Lancaster PA, 7/12-14).
2007: “Folk Psychology and External Attribution” SSPP Conference, the 99th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Atlanta GA, 4/6/2007).
2006: “Mencius’ and Xunzi’s Moral Psychology” Annual Meeting of APA (the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division), (Washington DC, 12/28/2006).
2006: “Mencius’ Philosophy of Mind and Morality” International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/21/2006)
2006: “Do Animals use Concepts?” SSPP Conference (the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology), Charleston SC.
2005: “Availability Thesis and Epistemic Fatalism,” EPPA (Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association) conference (April, 2005)
2004: “Can Aesthetic Consciousness save the Environment?” – Review of Dr. M. Lucht’s “Does Kant have anything to teach us about environmental ethics?” EPPA (Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association) conference (October, 2004)
2004: “Learning-related responses in Go/NoGo neurons in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,” Society of Neuroscience, Abstract 34: 324.1 (with F.A.W. Wilson, P.A. Greenberg, and Y. Ma).
2023: “Co-Existence and Harmony: Non-Linear Dynamics of Social Interaction” The 7TH World Humanities Forum (Busan, South Korea 11/8, 2023)
2023: “Seongho Yi Ik’s Theory of Mind-Brain: Aristotle’s De Anima and Neo-Confucian Adaptation of
the Brain Theory of Cognition” Annual NAKPA Conference (Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, November 9, 2023)
2023: “Toegye and Toegye School in Korean Neo-Confucianism” International Academic Workshop - Spiritual and Religious Characteristics of Korean Confucianism (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul South Korea, October 27, 2023)
2023: “Mind Theory (Simseol 心說) and Mind Cultivation (Sooyang 修養) Theory of the Simseol Debate” International Conference on Mind and Mind Cultivation, (University of Prince Edward Island, June 22-23, 2023).
2023: “Breaking the Border of Perceptual Modality: Synesthesia, Artistic Imagination, and the Embodied Reality” Opening Presentation for the Sixteenth Annual Geo-Aesthetics Conference, Towson University (Baltimore, March 17-18, 2023).
2023: "Embodied Consciousness of Mindfulness: Affordances and Affectances." 4Th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: 4E’s Approach to the Mind/Brain. Catholic University of Portugal (Braga Portugal, March 6 – 8, 2023)
2023: “Confucian Moral Psychology and Moral Sentimentalism” ISCP session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1/8/2023).
2023: “Moral Psychology of Embodied Affect and Jeong/Qing (Emotional Attachment) in Korean Culture” NAKPA session (1/6/2023) APA Eastern Division Meeting, (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1/7/2023).
2023: “Moral Psychology of Mind-Cultivation in Korean Neo-Confucian Philosophy” NAKPA session (1/6/2023) APA Eastern Division Meeting, (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1/6/2023).
2022: “Understanding Korean Neo-Confucianism from the Perspective of Moral Development” NAKPA (North America, Korean Philosophy Association) Conference, 11/13-11/17 (University Nebraska Omaha & Creighton University, Nebraska)
2022: “Cross-Linguistic Communication among Different Cultures of Shame” Cross-Linguistic Disagreement Conference, (hosted by the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) (Kanazawa/Ishikawa, Japan, July 14-15/2022).
2022: “AI, Robotics, and Buddhism” in Foundations and Applications of AI: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Department of Philosophy, Peking [Beijing] University, Beijing China (April 8 – 10)
2022: “Affecting Presence and the Openness of Embodied Sensitivity” Fifteenth Annual Geo-Aesthetics Conference, Towson University (March, 18-19, 2022).
2022: “Moral Psychology of the Mencian Creature: How is it different from the Kantian, the Humean, and the Rawlsian creatures?” ISCP session, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb 2022).
2022: “Philosophy and Moral Psychology of Shame: Korean Words of Shame in Comparison to Japanese Words of Shame” NAKPA session, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb 2022).
2022: “Religious Experience of Mindfulness and Metaphysics of Corporeal Consciousness” SoPheRe (Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience) session, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb 2022).
2022: “Two Approaches to Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy and Western Psychology” ISCP session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore (Jan 2022).
2022: “The Simseol Debate: The Debate of the Moral Mind and the End of Moral Metaphysics” NAKPA session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore (Jan 2022).
2022: “Philosophy of Mind and Moral Psychology in Korean Neo-Confucianism” Main Program (sponsored by APA) APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore (Jan 2022).
2021: “Music and the Pandemic Positive Experience of Sad Music” Geoaesthetics Conference (Aesthetics at the Time of the Pandemic), Towson University, 5/28 – 5/29/2021.
2021: “The Duality of Confucian Emotion and Moral Empathy” ISCP session, APA Central Division Meeting, New Orleans (Virtual) (Feb 2021).
2021: “Marginalization and De-Marginalization: Future of Robotic AI in East Asian Buddhism” The WiGiP/GiP Conference on Intercultural Philosophy. Demarginalising Futures: rethinking embodiment, community, and culture (Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie), Tubingen, Germany (Virtual) (February 19, 2021 - February 20, 2021)
2021: APA Eastern Division Meeting, “Unaroused (Weifa/Mibal) Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism in Korean Neo-Confucianism” NAKPA session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 2021).
2021: “Empathy Pessimism and Confucian Empathy” ISCWP session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 2021).
2020: “Supervenience of Moral Emotion and the Four Seven Debate” APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb, 2020).
2020: Author Meets Critics: The Emotional Mind, by Asma and Gabriel APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (Feb, 2020)
2020: “Sunzi’s Art and Ethics of War: Just War Theory and Intelligence Ethics.” ISCP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (Jan, 2020).
2020: “The Pure Consciousness and Emotion in the Horak Debate of Korean Neo-Confucianism.” NAKPA Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (Jan, 2020).
2019: “Strange Emotion, Strong Moral Sense: Moral Psychology and Moral Metaphysics of Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism” Annual NAKPA Conference, University College Cork, Ireland, Oct 11, 2019.
2019: “Confucian Moral Psychology and Neuroscience of Embodied Empathy.” The 21st International Conference of ISCP (the International Society for Chinese Philosophy), July, University of Bern, Switzerland.
2019: “War and Leadership: Sunzi’s Art of War and Fiedler’s Contingency Model” at the 2nd Annual Pennsylvania Leadership Studies Conference, April 6, Dixon University Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
2019: “The Homelessness, the Uncanny (Unheimlichkeit), and the Corporeal Consciousness”
Presented at the Fourteenth Geo-Aesthetics Conference March 15, 2019 Towson University
2019: “The Body and Moral Cultivation in Confucian Music.” Asian Philosophy Symposium at the Gettysburg College. (Feb 8, 2019).
2019: “Mencius’s Moral Psychology of Empathy: Buren (empathic unbearableness) and Ren (compassion)” Presented at ISCP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 9, 2019).
2019: “Moral Psychology of the Heart-Mind and Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism”
Presented at NAKPA Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York (Jan 8, 2019).
2018: “Embodied Space of Menus and Lists” in Conference on “Space and Time: An Interdisciplinary Approach” in Vilnius University, Vilnius Lithuania (September, 27–29, 2018).
2018: “Good, Evil, and Beyond: Explanation of Morality in Li-Qi Metaphysics and Korean Neo-Confucianism” at the International Conference on Asian Studies; Good and Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality in University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada (June, 2018).
2018: Sensible Narratives of Representational and Non-Representable Music in Confucianism. Eleventh Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, (March 16-17, 2018).
2018: Transcendence and Immanence of Confucian Heaven from the Perspective of Moral Psychology and Moral Development. Presented at the APA Committee Session: Central Division Meeting, Chicago, (Feb, 2018)
2018: Integrity of Vulnerability and Vulnerability of Integrity: Ing’s Conception of Moral Integrity. Presented at the APA Committee Session: Central Division Meeting, Chicago, (Feb, 2018)
2018: Philosophy and Aesthetics of Confucian Music. Presented at SACP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (Jan, 2018).
2018: Confucian Philosophy and Developmental Psychology. Presented at ISCWP Session, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (Jan, 2018).
2018: Misunderstandings of Li-Qi (理氣) Moral Psychology in the Four Seven Debate (四七 論爭) and the Horak Debate (湖洛論爭) of Korean Neo-Confucianism. Presented at NAKPA Session, APA, Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (Jan 2018).
2017: Embodied Cognition meets Wang Yangming’s Organismic Neo-Confucianism:
Frisina’s “Organicism and Pursuit of an Embodied Theory of Mind” Presented at the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy (Columbia University, New York, May, 5, 2017)
2017: “Cognitive and Developmental Interpretation of Confucian Ritual and Music: Xunzi’s philosophy of moral and aesthetic pleasure” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Pacific Division (Seattle), April, 2017.
2017: “Neo-Confucian Criticism of Buddhism: A philosophical and linguistic analysis of Jeong Do Jeon’s criticism of Buddhism” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Pacific Division (Seattle), April, 2017.
2017: “Earworm and Embodied Musical Imagery” Tenth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 17-18, 2017.
2017: “Moral Autonomy, Heteronomy, and Communonomy in Early Confucian Philosophy” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Baltimore), January, 2017.
2017: “Xunzi’s Epistemological and Moral Psychological Theory of Xin: Xin as a meta-faculty” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Baltimore), January, 2017.
2017: Commenting on David Wong’s “Early Confucian Philosophy and Development of Compassion” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Baltimore), January, 2017.
2016: “Xunzi’s Theory of Mind” The 34th annual Society of Ancient philosophy Conference in Fordham University October, 29, 2016
2016: “Confucian Ethics and Psychopathy from the Perspective of Moral Development” MARAAS Conference (MidAtlantic Region Association for Asian Studies), Baltimore October 15, 2016
2016: “Neuroaesthetics of Musical Pleasure: Purposeful Purposelessness of Musical Chills” The International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul South Korea (July 25 - 29, 2016)
2016: “Autistic Moral Agency and Integrative Neuroethics” Neuroscience Conference - Does Neuroscience Have Normative Implications? Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (April, 15 – 16, 2016)
2016: “Evolutionary Psychology and Confucian Shame” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Pacific Division, San Francisco, (April 1, 2016)
2016: “Embodied Religious Experience of Mindfulness Meditation” Presented at the Embodied Religious Experience Workshop, Princeton University (March 14-16, 2016)
2016: Comment on Richard Kim’s “Early Confucianism and Contemporary Empirical Psychology” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, (Washington, D.C.) January, 2016.
2016: “Confucian Ethics and Psychopathy from the Perspective of Moral Development” APA (American Philosophical Association) Annual Conference, Eastern Division (Washington D.C.), January, 2016.
2015: “Heaven and Moral Efficacy: Stoic Way and Confucian Way” The 33rd annual Society of Ancient philosophy Conference in Fordham University October, 25, 2015
2015: “Constructive Moral Emotion: Xunzi and Prinz” Symposium on Chinese Philosophy: New Directions in Chinese Philosophy. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. October, 24, 2015
2015: “Computer Menus and Restaurant Menus: Embodied Spatial Metaphors” The Third Annual Lehigh University Conference in Philosophy: Metaphors in Use, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. October 8 - 9, 2015
2015: “Musical Festivity and Confucian Virtuoso” Eighth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, September 25-26, 2015.
2015: “Zombies, Psychopaths, and Confucian Village Worthies: Internalist Interpretation of Confucian Moral Psychology.” ISCP (International Society for Chinese Philosophy) Conference (Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 24, 2015)
2015: “Is Wu-wei Hot or Cold? Slingerland’s Trying not to Try”APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Pacific Division, Philadelphia, (4/1/2015)
2015: “Moral Heteronomy and Confucian Philosophy” the International Conference on Asian Studies, Scranton University, Scranton, PA
2014: Comment on Lynne Hong’s “Exploring the Discourse of Self in Chapter One of the Zhuangzi” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, (12/30/2014)
2014: “Neuroscience of Mindfulness and Buddhist Moral Psychology” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, (12/28/2014)
2014: “Moral Psychology of Emotion and Toegye’s (Yi Hwang’s) Neo-Confucianism” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, (12/28/2014)
2014: “Virtues and Meta-Virtues in Confucianism” The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (Fordham University, New York. 10/24 – 10/26, 2014)
2014: “Toegye’s and Kobong’s Moral Metaphysics of Li and Qi” The Spirit of Korean Philosophy: Six Debates and Their Significance for Asian and Western Philosophy. North American Korean Philosophy Association Conference. University of Omaha, (Omaha, Nebraska. 10/22/2014)
2014: “Cultural Evolution of Shame” International and Interdisciplinary Conference - Language, Culture, and Reality: East and West - University of Pennsylvania (Department of South Asia Studies, South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania & Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange, University of Pennsylvania) 10/3 ~ 10/4/2014
2014: “Theories of Space and Emptiness: Ancient Atomism, Mozi, and Dedekind” The Second Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice, (Nanyang Technological University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences) 8/19 ~ 8/20/2014
2014: “Moral Psychology of Buddhist Meditation” 49th Annual Conference for the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) (SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 6/19 ~ 6/22/2014)
2014: “Hermeneutics, History, and Ming (Fate) in Confucian philosophy”, The Hermeneutics East and West Conference, Penn State University, College Park, PA. 5/16 - 17, 2014
2014: “Biological, Cultural, and Moral Evolution of Shame: From Survival Strategy and Social Exchange to Moral Excellence” (The 30th Conference on Value Inquiry (Evolution and Foundations of Ethics, Neumann University, Aston PA 5/1 ~ 5/3/2014.
2014: “Moral Asymmetry: Honesty and Dishonesty” Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/26/2014)
2014: “Neuro-Aesthetics and the Phenomenology of Music” Sixth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 14-15, 2014.
2014: “Confucian Self-Cultivation and Meta-Virtue” SACP session in APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Central Division, Chicago, (3/1/2014)
2013: “Four Seven Debate and Moral Psychology of Korean Confucianism” Invited Session on Korean Philosophy, APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (December, 2013)
2013: “Moral Virtuosity, Moral Improvisation, and Moral Sense in Confucian Spontaneity” Invited Session on Spontaneity, APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (December, 2013)
2013: Commenting on (David Chai’s "Mental Blindness and Moral Rectitude: the Jeibi Chapter of the Xunzi" ACPA session in APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (12/28/2013)
2013: Commenting on a paper (H. Kim’s “Emotion and Judgment: Two Roots of Moral Motivation in Mengzi”) ACPA session in APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division, Baltimore, (12/28/2013)
2013: “Negative Confucian Virtue” The 31th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (Fordham University, New York. 2013)
2013: “Moral Luck and Confucian Philosophy” The 18th International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Buffalo, NY. (July, 2013).
2013: Commenting on a paper (Ellie HuaWang’s The New Situationist Challenge and a Potential Xunzian Reply”) APA (American Philosophical Association) conference, Pacific Division, San Francisco, (March, 2013).
2013: “Neuro-Aestheticcs and Embodied Expression of Beauty” Fifth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 8-9, 2013.
2013: "Negative Virtues and the Sustainability Approach" in the seventh annual Felician ethics conference (April 20, 2013, Felician College, Rutherford NJ).
2013: “Shame as a Moral Disposition: Confucian Shame and Virtue” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Central Division, New Orleans, LA (February, 2013)
2012: “Embodied Moral Cognition and Confucian Philosophy” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division (Atlanta, GA, December, 2012)
2012: “Supervenience and Confucian Virtue” APA (American Philosophical Association) annual conference, Eastern Division (Atlanta, GA, December, 2012)
2012: “Correlative Homology and Confucian Moral Virtue” The 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (Fordham University, New York. 10/19 -10/21 /2012)
2012: "Other-Regarding Emotion without Sympathy" Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/21/2012)
2012: “What is Qing? A Situationist Interpretation” APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Pacific Division (Seattle, WA 4/7/2012)
2012: “The Body and the Sensuousness: What do restaurant menus, websites, and grocery aisle lists tell us about the body and the space of the sensuousness? Fourth Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, Towson University, Baltimore, March 8-9, 2012.
2012: “Buren (不忍) and Ren (仁): Mencius’s Theory of Moral Emotion” APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Central Division (Chicago, 2/17/2012)
2011: Comment and Review of “Virtue, Education, and Liberty” (David Elstein) APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Eastern Division, (Washington DC 12/28/2011)
2011: “Embodied Ren in Confucianism,” in the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy (Invited Lecture) Columbia University, (New York, 11/11/2011).
2011: Does Mencius Care? The Heart of Compassion and Care, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Pacific Division, (San Diego, 2011)
2011: Empathy, Moral Agency, and Autism, Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/30/2011)
2011: Sensual Experience of Non-Sensuous Things. Third Annual Geo-aesthetics Conference, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, March 11-12, 2011.
2010: Mencius’s Ceyinzhixin (the heart of compassion) and the moral psychology of empathy, The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (New York. 10/15 - 17/2010)
2010: Moral Psychology of Korean Neo--Confucianism, the Four Seven Debate and ToeGye’s Dualism, The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS) (New York. 10/15 - 17/2010)
2010: “Ethics and Scientific Research” – Panel Discussion
45th MAALACT (Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers) Conference, Session on educational issues and ethics, 11/6/2010
2010: Character of Situation? A Confucian Response to Situational Social Psychology, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Pacific Division, (San Francisco 3/31- 4/4 2010)
2010: One and the Others, Other-Regarding Orientation of Confucian Moral Philosophy, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Central Division (Chicago, 2/18/2010)
2009: Emotion and Embodied Cognition, APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Eastern Division, (New York 12/27-30/2009)
2009: Confucian Virtue, Arête or not, The 5th International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/16 - 18/2009)
2009: “Is shame a virtue? Moral psychology of shame and virtue.” Felician Ethics Conference. (Felician College, Rutherford, N.J. 4/18/2009)
2009: “Cognitive Science and Confucian Reciprocity” AAS (Association for Asian Studies) Conference, Chicago 2009 3/26-29/2009)
2009: “The Value and Beauty of Open Space: Is Space Empty Nothingness?” International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place; Geo-Aesthetics Conference, Towson University, (Baltimore, MD. 3/6-7 2009)
2009: “Virtue and Emotion: Moral Psychology of Early Confucian Philosophy”, Neo-Confucian Study, Columbia University, (New York, 2/6/2009)
2008: Comment and Review of “Moral Agency and Applied Ethics in Asian and Comparative Thought” APA (the American Philosophical Association) Conference, Eastern Division, (Philadelphia 12/28-30/2008)
2008: “Shame and Self in Ancient China and Ancient Greece” The 4th International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/24 - 26/2008)
2008: “Franciscan Themes in Leadership Philosophy: The Power Based Leadership and Service Based Leadership” AFCU Symposium (Reading, PA 6/5-6/7/2008)
2008: “Confucian Error: Emotion in Confucian Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Moral Psychology” Annual Meeting of APA (the American Philosophical Association, Central Division), (Chicago, 4/16 – 4/19/2008).
2008: “How Modular is ToM (Theory of Mind)?” SSPP Conference, the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (New Orleans, 3/20-22/2007).
2007: “Empty Heart and Metaphysical Emotion of the Neo-Confucian Mind" The Fourth International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/21/2007)
2007: “Non-Taxomic Reasoning and Conflict Resolution in Chinese Philosophy” the 24th International Social Philosophy Conference, hosted by (NASSP) North American Society for Social Philosophy (Lancaster PA, 7/12-14).
2007: “Folk Psychology and External Attribution” SSPP Conference, the 99th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Atlanta GA, 4/6/2007).
2006: “Mencius’ and Xunzi’s Moral Psychology” Annual Meeting of APA (the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division), (Washington DC, 12/28/2006).
2006: “Mencius’ Philosophy of Mind and Morality” International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, (New York. 10/21/2006)
2006: “Do Animals use Concepts?” SSPP Conference (the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology), Charleston SC.
2005: “Availability Thesis and Epistemic Fatalism,” EPPA (Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association) conference (April, 2005)
2004: “Can Aesthetic Consciousness save the Environment?” – Review of Dr. M. Lucht’s “Does Kant have anything to teach us about environmental ethics?” EPPA (Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association) conference (October, 2004)
2004: “Learning-related responses in Go/NoGo neurons in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,” Society of Neuroscience, Abstract 34: 324.1 (with F.A.W. Wilson, P.A. Greenberg, and Y. Ma).