Call for abstracts: The 5th Biennial Conference of theEuropean Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP), Reykjavík, June 26-28, 2025

Theme: “Selfhood and Exteriority”

How should selfhood be described and what is the nature of its relationship with exteriority (other people and beings, the environment as such)? Can the “I” be considered a distinct individual or should it rather be understood as a system of multiple agents? What is the nature of our relationship as “selves” with our society? How responsible are we for our actions vis-à-vis our exterior being(s)? What, if anything, does it mean to be free?
What is, has been, and could be Chinese philosophy’s take on these and other questions relating to selfhood? How have they been tackled throughout the history of Chinese philosophy? What different approaches are found in the various Chinese philosophical schools? What can be learned from Chinese philosophy for improving our adopted ways to approach our world? How can Chinese philosophy engage in meaningful dialogues on such and related issues with other philosophical traditions of the world?
Among suggested topics to be discussed are:

• Individualism and collectivism
• Ego and its own
• Non-self (wuji)
• Overcoming selfhood
• Relational selfhood
• Individual and society
• Autonomy and agency
• Agency and co-agency
• Co-creativity
• Emotions and reason
• Self and body
• Rights and responsibilities
• The meaning of freedom
• Freedom and responsibility
• Consciousness and the subconscious
• Interiority and exteriority
• Self-cultivation and other-cultivation
• Human vs. nature
• Etc.

Scholars working on Chinese philosophy and philosophy in China are invited to submit proposals for individual papers or panels to Geir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland), <[email protected]>. Topics are not restricted to the conference theme.
Official languages of the conference are English and Chinese.
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words. Panel proposals should include the title and a brief description of the panel and the names, affiliations, email addresses of the participants, and the titles of each participant’s presentation with abstracts of max. 250 words. Panels can be composed of three or four presentations. Each paper presentation has 30 minutes, including discussion.

All contributions have to be submitted by 30 November 2024!

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