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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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Call for Chapters

Book Project on

Love and Friendship across Cultures

The Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand and the Philosophical Association of the Philippines are collaborating to publish a book volume entitled “Love and Friendship Across Cultures” to be published by Springer. The book volume contains some of the papers that were presented during the First Joint Meeting of the two associations in July 2019. However, we plan to include more papers through this general call for chapters too.

Papers can be submitted for consideration of inclusion in the book provided that they deal with love and friendship in a cross-cultural dimension in one way or another. Chapters that deal with love and friendship (or only one of the two) from an Asian or from a religious perspective (Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and so on), or those that focus on comparative aspects (for example, between Buddhist and Greek traditions, and so on) are particularly welcome. Papers need to be philosophically rigorous and meet the standard of internationally accepted scholarship.

Papers should be between 5,000 to 8,000 words and please follow the APA citation format. Please also submit an abstract of 200 words together with the paper. Deadline for submitting the paper is December 31, 2019. Please send the paper to me at soraj.h@mso.chula.edu and in the email please put the phrase “[Book Project – Love]” in the subject heading so that I can easily distinguish your submission from all other mails. Only papers in .doc, .docx, or .odt format are allowed.

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Call for Papers – Meeting of the PARST

Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the Philososphy and Religion Society of Thailand

This year’s annual meeting of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand will be held at the campus of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Khon Kaen campus, Khon Kaen, Thailand, on December 15 to 16, 2018.

http://kk.mcu.ac.th/

The theme of the conference this year is “Philosophy and Religion in the Thai Education System: Myths and Realities”.

Papers do not have to be directly related to the theme of the conference, but they need to be within either philosophy or religion. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by a selection committee to be set up by the Society.

Papers must be no more than 10 A4 pages long, including all notes and references, and they can be written in either English or Thai.

The last day for submitting papers is November 15, 2017. Those who submitted papers will be notified of the result by November 30.

Papers presented at the annual meeting will then again be selected for possible publication in the Journal of the Society.

Contact person: Jerd Bandasak at parstthailand@gmail.com

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Annual Meeting – Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand

Call for Papers

The Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand is organizing its 20th annual conference at Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Nakorn Pathom on January 6-7, 2016. The theme of the meeting is “Aesthetics and Ethics in the Contemporary World.”

The Society is pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference. Papers can be in the theme of the conference, or in any topics in philosophy, religious studies, or related fields. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be announced one month after the deadline of submission.

Important Dates

October 10 Last day of submission of papers for consideration
November 10 Announcement of accepted papers
December 10 Last day of submission of revised papers

January 6 – 7, 2016 Annual Meeting

Papers are accepted in either Thai or English language. The length must be no more than 12 A4 pages inclusive of footnotes and references. The font is Times New Roman, 12 points.

In addition to the paper, please include an abstract of no more than half a page with your paper.

Please send the paper to Dr. Pagorn Singsuriya at pagorn.sin AT mahidol.ac.th. For more information please go to http://www.parst.or.th/

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Buddhism

Dharma Talks by Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten

Dharma Talks By
Professor Geshe Ngawang Samten
Vice Chancellor, Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi, India

Venerable Professor Geshe Ngawang Samten is the Director and Vice Chancellor of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Varanasi. Prior to assuming the Vice Chancellorship he was Director of the Research and Publications Division of the Institute. Professor Geshe Samten earned his Shastri, Acharya and PhD from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies and his Geshe degree from Ganden Shartse Monastic University. He is the editor of the Tibetan critical edition of Nagajuna’s Ratnavali (CIHTSPress), and is the co-translator with Professor Jay Garfield of TsongKhapa’s Ocean of Reasoning (Oxford University Press). He has addressed conferences and colloquia around the world, and has held visiting professorships at University of Tasmania, Hamshire College, Amherst College and Smith College.

On 31.03.2009, Venerable Professor was awarded with Padma Shri Award by the President of India in fields of Education and Literature which was announced on 26.01.2009 (Republic Day of India). Reference: http://www.cuts.ac.in/guestsection/vice_chancellor.html

7th July 2014
Topic Buddhism and Science
Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Venue: Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building, Room 401/18, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 , Thailand

8th July 2014
Topic: Spirituality and Philosophy in Buddhism
Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Venue: DMG Center, Amarin Plaza, 22nd Floor, Chidlom, Bangkok

Enquiry and Registration
Contact Number: 089 680 8812 or 081 821 6196
Email: bkk-teaching@tibetanbc.org

Organized by the Tibetan Buddhist Centre, Singapore and the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University