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Program of the 29th PARST Conference

December 19-20, 2025

Mahachakri Building, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Friday, December 19, 2025

Morning Session

Room 401/5

9:00 – 9:15   Opening Ceremony

Award Presentation Ceremony to students who won the National Philosophy Olympiad and represented Thailand at the International Philosophy Olympiad

9:15 – 10:15Keynote Lecture: “Distributive Justice and Animals,” Paula Casal (Law Department, ICREA & Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

Paper Presentations, Morning Session

Room 401/5

10:45 – 11:15  Jeremiah Joven Joaquin “Ricardo R. Pascual’s Partyless Democracy”

11:15 – 11:45  Jiani Zhong “Free Will as An Essentially Contested Concept”

11:45 – 12:15 Fatiha Bouzid “The Covenant of the Machine: Founding Artificial Intelligence on Principles of Religious and Philosophical Wisdom”

Room 401/8

10:45 – 11:15 Yannick Essengue Amougou “The topic of Vitalism: African philosophy and religion as a being-with”

11:15 – 11:45 Benjamin Ivry “Novelizing Political Equality: Rereading the Political Philosophy and Fiction of Benjamin Constant”

11:45 – 12:15 Henry H Vumjou “Publicity as a Safeguard for Equal Political Freedom”

12:15 – 13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

Paper Presentations, Afternoon Session

Room 401/5

13:00 – 13:30 Hazel Biana “Rethinking Feminist Solidarity in the Age of Intersectional Crises”

13:30 – 14:00 Sira Nukulkit “Exogenous Distribution and Distributive Justice: From Rawls to Sen and Back to Sraffa”

14:00 – 14:30 Dyuti Ghosh “Co-cognition and Co-operation: a methodological journey towards a greater “Us””

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 – 15:50 John Gould “Thomas Muntzer and the Apocalypse of the Self”

15:50 – 16:20 Leif Thomas Olsen “The Citizen Lobby from Capacity to Influence”

16:20 – 16:50 Lucas Scripter “Arboreal Atmospheres in Urban Spaces: Reflections on Hong Kong’s Banyans”

Room 401/8

13:00 – 13:30 Yuval Jobani “Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in the Public Sphere”

13:30 – 14:00 Mohammad Mahdi Fallah “Foundations for a Just Polity: Political Equality and Social Justice in the Thought of Morteḍā Moṭahharī”

14:00 – 14:30 Maciej Czerkawski “Being Is Not a Non-Universal Kind: Rethinking the Ontological Difference”

14:30 – 15:00 Shane Ryan “Epistemic Environments and Distributive Justice”

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 – 15:50 Kristine Ann C. Alcazar “Production of New Realities: A Foucauldian Examination of AI Governance in the Philippines”

15:50 – 16:20 Francesco Menichetti “Being-with-one-another: The ontological foundation of democracy in Jean-Luc Nancy”

16:20 – 16:50 ประชุมใหญ่สามัญประจำปี สมาคมปรัชญาและศาสนาแห่งประเทศไทย และพิธีปิด – General Assembly of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand, and Closing Ceremony

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Morning Session

Room 401/5

9.00 – 13:00  Plenary Panel: “Political Equality and Political Philosophy,” convened by Prach Panchakunathorn, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University

Program

9.00 – 9.45 Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus), “Discrimination by Classification”

9.45 – 10.30 Tom Parr (Warwick), “Markets, Firms, and the Gender Pay Gap”

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee Break

10.45 – 11.30 Areti Theofilopoulou (Warwick), “”Why Didn’t She Leave?” Control without Coercion”

11.30 – 12.15 Andrew Williams (ICREA & Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona), “Why I Am Not A Republican”

12.15 – 13.00 Prach Panchakunathorn (Warwick), “Rescues and Public Cost-Sharing”

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

Paper Presentations, Afternoon Session

Room 401/5

14:00 – 14:30 Leo Deng “Sartre, Equality, and the Existential Dialectic”

15:00 – 15:30 Veronica Cibotaru “Is there computational creativity?”

15:30 – 16:00 Rituparna Roy, Paula Silva “Words Without Knowledge: Augustine in the Era of LLM”

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:45 Lorraine K C Yeung and Daisy Pui Lun Chow “I wish I don’t have to depend on it, but…”: Moral oscillation amidst embracing ChatGPT in higher education”

16:45 – 17:15 Jesse Lewis Hill “Don’t say farewell to the modal theory of luck: A reply to He”

Room 401/8

14:00 – 14:30 Meha Mishra “Revisiting Arjuna’s Dilemma through Deontic Lens”

14:30 – 15:00 Rajat Pal “The Relationship Between Divine Authorship and Vedic Texts: A Critical Analysis of the Nyāya School’s Arguments Against the Mīmāṁsā School”

15:00 – 15:30 Julien Paret “I Will Always Be Against: Egor Letov’s Ontological Nothingness and the Political Equality of Rebellion”

15:30 – 16:00 Jordan Scott “Racism: Not a System, Not an Ideology”

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:45 Prasenjit Biswas “Acts of Forgiving: Arguing for Decolonial Pluralism of Justice and Guilt”

16:45 – 17:15 Ionut Untea “Translation, Pro-existence and Sensus Communis as Incentives towards the Political”

Room 401/11 Papers in Thai Language

14.00 – 14:30  ณัฏฐพล บุณยพิพัฒน์ “มองเตสกิเออในปรัชญาทางการเมือง: สรุปและวิพากษ์”

14:30 – 15:00  ภัทรพล เป็งวัฒน์ “ทะลายกรอบคิดความเป็นชาย: อ่านภาพยนตร์ The Stones: พระแท้ คนเก๊ ผ่านเลนส์สตรีนิยมหลังมนุษยนิยม”

15:00 – 15:30  ณัฏฐพล ปราบริปู “ปัญหาความไม่เท่าเทียมกันผ่านสิทธิในทัศนะของอาเธอร์ โชเปนเฮาเออร์”

15.30 – 15.45  พักน้ำชา กาแฟ อาหารว่าง – Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:15  Angela Pangthipampai “จากรัฐถึงศาสนา: ความเหลื่อมล้ำของวิถีชีวิตแม่ชีไทย”

16:15 – 16:45  ทชากร กอกเผือก “การแปรสถานะภาพจากนักเรียนสู่ประชาชน ผ่านการตีความภาพยนตร์ เรื่อง From Up on Poppy Hill (ร่ำร้องขอปาฏิหาริย์)”

16:45 – 17:15  ธรรมชาติ อุดมทองสกุล “วิเคราะห์วรรณกรรมเรื่องแอนิมอลฟาร์มผ่านแนวคิดของคาร์ล มาร์กซ์”

17:15 – 17:45  กฤตภาศ ศักดิษฐานนท์ “ข้อโต้แย้งต่อแนวคิดของมาเคียเวลลีเรื่องการปกครองด้วยความกลัว”

17.45 Room 401/5 – Closing 

Registration

Registration fees for paper presenters: 1,200 Baht, payable in cash only at the conference site

Fees for non-paper presenting audience: 500 Baht, payable in cash only at the conference site

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I teach philosophy at the International Buddhist Studies College, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. I am also Research Fellow at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Chulalongkorn University.

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