Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Daoist Wisdom: An Account of Epistemic Humility” by Dr. Christine Tan, Yale-NUS College, Singapore

2025-04-23 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Conference: 中國形上學傳統中的「物」

2025-04-12 ~ 2025-04-13

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Mental Minutiae: On the Residues, Fragments, Remnants, and Seeds of Mental Life” by Prof. Benjamin Winokur, University of Macau

2025-04-09 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Reason With Multiple Exemplars” by Prof. Xinkan Zhao, Peking University, China

2025-03-26 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Spiritual-Based Values at the Cultural Crossroads” by Prof. Dan Chițoiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania

2025-03-14 @ 3:30 pm ~ 5:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Diverse Fates in Homer” by Prof. Hao Chunpeng, Shanghai Normal University, China

2025-03-12 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Fake News and the Dark Side of Speech” by Prof. Carlo Penco, University of Murcia, Spain

2025-02-12 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

UM Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series – “Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece” by Prof. Michael Puett, Harvard University, USA

2025-01-17 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “How Belief Functions” by Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

2025-01-15 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

UM Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series – “Why Does Ritual Matter?: Theories from Classical China” by Prof. Michael Puett, Harvard University, USA

2025-01-10 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Workshop: 儒家倫理與現代性工作坊

2024-12-07

FAH/DPHIL Conference: “Laozi’s Philosophy – Heng Dao and Temporality”

2024-11-23 ~ 2024-11-24

FAH/DPHIL: 4th International Conference on Natural Cognition – “Deception: Self, Others, and the Digital World”

2024-11-22 ~ 2024-11-23

FAH/DPHIL: Philosophy Café

2024-11-20 @ 3:00 pm ~ 4:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Reaching Addicted Minds” by Dr. Daniel Morgan, University of York, United Kingdom

2024-11-06 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay

2024-10-31 ~ 2025-05-02

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Universal Love (jian’ai) and not Loving Robbers” by Prof. Yun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

2024-10-23 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL: MRI International Symposium 2024 – “Cultural Exchange between China and the West: Remembering Marco Polo”

2024-10-18 ~ 2024-10-19

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “In Defense of Social Hierarchies in China” by Prof. Daniel Bell and Prof. Wang Pei, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2024-10-09 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Plato and Plato’s Socrates on Mythmaking” by Prof. Chloe Balla, University of Crete, Greece

2024-09-25 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

Philosophy Forum: Distinguished Scholars Series – 6: “Reshaping Confucianism” by Prof. Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2024-09-23 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Fearing Climate-Fictions: Emotions, Persuasion, and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Cli-Fi” by Dr. Marta Benenti, University of Murcia, Spain

2024-09-11 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

Philosophy Forum: Distinguished Scholars Series – 5: “Human Agency and Human Sacrifice: A Neo-Tiantai Perspective” by Prof. Brook Ziporyn, The University of Chicago, U.S.A.

2024-08-29 @ 2:00 pm ~ 4:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Dialectics of Freedom in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: Keats, Hegel, Marx” by Dr. James Chambers, Hebei University, China

2024-08-28 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Seeing the Non-existent ” by Prof. Wolfgang Barz, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany

2024-04-24 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Affective Basis of Cognition and Reasoning in Non-human Animals” by Prof. Sanja Srećković, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

2024-04-10 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Transparency, Moore’s Paradox and the Concept of Belief ” by Prof. Adam Andreotta, Curtin University, Australia

2024-04-03 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL-IAS Philosophy Forum Distinguished Scholars Series – 4: “Living Chinese Philosophy: ‘Zoetology’ 生生論 as First Philosophy” by Prof. Roger T. Ames

2024-03-14 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Why the Search for AI Safety (or Alignment) Can Be Very Dangerous” by Prof. Herman Cappelen, University of Hong Kong

2024-03-06 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Ernst Cassirer and the Place of Myth in Scientific Culture” by Prof. Gregory Moss, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2024-02-21 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Philosophical Expertise and Acquisition of Intuitions” by Prof. Kengo Miyazono and Kiichi Inarimori, Hokkaido University, Japan

2024-01-31 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Funny Games: An Analysis of Humor as Gameplay” by Prof. Tatyana Kostochka, Ashoka University, India

2024-01-10 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL: MRI Public Forum – From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites Controversy: A Historical and Theological Analysis

2024-01-03 @ 3:00 pm ~ 5:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “State Ritual, Political Legitimacy, and Religious Practice of the Jidu in Imperial China” by Prof. Li Teng, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

2023-12-29 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Conference – “Spiritual Exemplars in Philosophy, Theology, and Religion”

2023-12-13 ~ 2023-12-14

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Intention, Ethics, and Convention in Daoism: Guo Xiang on Ziran (self-so) and Wuwei (non-action)” by Prof. Paul J. D’Ambrosio, East China Normal University, China

2023-12-06 @ 3:00 pm ~ 4:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Case for Commitment” by Prof. Sarah Paul, NYU Abu Dhabi

2023-12-01 @ 1:30 pm ~ 3:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Viewing Humans and the World Through Affairs” by Prof. Yang Guorong, East China Normal University, China

2023-11-22 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Philosophy Café: Session 3 “Why Do We Need Philosophy?”

2023-11-15 @ 3:00 pm ~ 3:45 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Art as Inquiry: The Path of Chinese Lyric Aesthetic” by Prof. Danielle Macbeth, Haverford College, U.S.A.

2023-11-13 @ 1:30 pm ~ 3:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Problem of Contingency for the Descriptivist Account of Semantic Deference” by Dr. Ryo Tanaka, University of Tokyo, Japan

2023-11-08 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Sexual Creepiness” by Prof. Dan Demetriou, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.

2023-10-27 @ 1:30 pm ~ 3:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Pluralistic Theism and Religious Syncretism in Southeast Asia” by Prof. Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, De La Salle University, Philippines

2023-10-25 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “For a Process Philosophy of Mind” by Prof. Rein Raud, Tallinn University, Estonia

2023-10-11 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “How to Follow the Fact of Human Beings and Herd the Masses — Han Fei Zi’s View of Human Nature” by Prof. Bai Tongdong, Fudan University, China

2023-09-20 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay

2023-09-07 ~ 2024-05-31

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Chinese Philosophy and the Method of Sublation: Epistemic Encounters in Transcultural Contexts” by Prof. Jana Rošker, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

2023-09-06 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Are conspiracy theories just theories about conspiracies?” by Prof. M. R. X. Dentith, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai

2023-08-23 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay

2023-05-08 ~ 2023-05-31

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Class Traitors? The Assault on the Intellectuals’ Power in the Book of Lord Shang and Han Feizi” by Prof. Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2023-04-26 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Evil and the Problem of Impermanence in Japanese Philosophy” by Prof. Yujin Nagasawa, University of Birmingham, UK

2023-04-12 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “On Having and Lacking Certainty” by Prof. Matthew Ratcliffe, University of York, UK

2023-03-29 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Philosophy Cafe: Session 2

2023-03-29 @ 3:45 pm ~ 4:45 pm

FAH/DPHIL Guest Lecture – “Kant’s Philosophy of Moral Luck” by Prof. Samuel Kahn, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

2023-03-17 @ 4:30 pm ~ 6:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “After Order: Interregnum and Ethics of Disorder in Global Politics” by Prof. Xiaoyu Lu, Peking University, China

2023-03-15 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Kang Youwei on Sexual Equality” by Prof. Xinyan Jiang, University of Redlands, USA

2023-03-01 @ 1:30 pm ~ 3:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Small Atomes of Themselves a World May Make” by Prof. Claudio Calosi, University of Geneva, Switzerland

2023-02-15 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Agent-Focused Moral Realism: Zhu Xi’s Virtue Ethics Approach to Virtue Ethics” by Prof. Huang Yong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2023-02-01 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL International Hybrid Symposium – “The virtues of memory; What we remember and how we remember can be soul-destroying or life-enhancing” by Prof. Charles Raliaferro

2022-12-14 @ 7:00 pm ~ 8:10 pm

FAH/DPHIL International Hybrid Symposium – “Architecture and Memory” by Mr. Lui Chak Keong

2022-12-13 @ 3:00 pm ~ 4:10 pm

FAH/DPHIL International Hybrid Symposium – “Museum Ecologies Reconsidered: Cultural Value in the Web of Life” by Prof. Colin Sterling, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2022-12-09 @ 3:45 pm ~ 5:10 pm

FAH/DPHIL International Hybrid Symposium – “Memory, Meaning, and Value”

2022-12-09 ~ 2022-12-21

FAH/DPHIL Workshop – “The Nature of God in Sino-Muslim Philosophy”

2022-12-02

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Fan Li 范蠡and the Daoist Philosophy of Time and Temporality: From Laozi to Huang-Lao” by Prof. Thomas Michael, Beijing Normal University, China

2022-11-23 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Philosophy Cafe: Session 1

2022-11-18 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Daoism and Strategic Thinking” by Prof. Sarah Flavel, Bath Spa University, United Kingdom

2022-11-09 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “More and happier women. On the political significance of Wittgenstein and hinge epistemology” by Prof. Annalisa Coliva, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.

2022-10-26 @ 12:00 pm ~ 1:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Dilthey, Individuation, and Self-Awareness” by Prof. Eric Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

2022-10-12 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Temporal ontology and formal ontology” by Prof. Francesco Orilia, University of Macerata, Italy

2022-09-21 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Patterns of Thought in the Chinese Bronze Age” by Prof. Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

2022-09-07 @ 10:00 am ~ 11:30 am

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Free Will and Neuroscience” by Prof. Alfred Mele, Florida State University, U.S.A.

2022-05-18 @ 8:00 pm ~ 9:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Congress – “Theology, Translation, and Interpretation: the work and legacy of Fr. Joaquim Guerra, S.J.”

2022-05-09 @ 8:00 pm ~ 2022-05-31 @ 10:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The morality of custom and the morality of rules” by Prof. Hans Sluga, University of California at Berkeley, USA

2022-05-04 @ 11:00 am ~ 12:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Transcultural comparative philosophy: Hui Shi, Zeno, and the method of sublation” by Prof. Jana S. Rošker, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

2022-04-20 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay

2022-04-14 ~ 2022-05-31

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Snail and its Horns: Practical Philosophy Inspired by the Zhuangzi” by Prof. Carine Defoort, University of Leuven, Belgium

2022-04-06 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Time without Events of time” by Prof. Gregory Landini, University of Iowa, USA

2022-03-23 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Temporal experience, metaphysics, and metametaphysics, or: on philosophising about temporal experience” by Prof. Natalja Deng, Yonsei University, South Korea

2022-03-09 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Classical Theism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Synthesis” by Prof. Tyler Dalton McNabb, University of Saint Joseph, Macao

2021-12-22 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Conference– “THE MORAL ROOTS OF QUARANTINE: the East and the West”

2021-12-16 @ 3:00 pm ~ 2021-12-17 @ 7:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Wayfarers and Dwellers: implications from phenomenological anthropology for ‘roots’ music heritage research” by Prof. Philip Tonner, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

2021-11-24 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Methodological Atheism: An Essay in the Second-Person Phenomenology of Commitment” by Prof. Steven Crowell, Rice University, USA

2021-11-17 @ 10:00 am ~ 11:30 am

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Art of Interpretation: Knowledge, Ritual, and Understanding in Early Chinese Religion and Philosophy” by Prof. Michael Puett, Harvard University, USA

2021-10-27 @ 8:00 pm ~ 9:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “VisonBytes – Seeing in the age of intercultural digitality” by Prof. Holger Briel, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University-United International College

2021-10-13 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Identity and dementia: a different approach” by Prof. Giovanni Boniolo, University of Ferrara, Italy

2021-09-29 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Variety of Minds: Why the Dao Mind Is/Becomes Huanghu (Ambiguous and Elusive)?” by Prof. Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University, USA

2021-09-15 @ 11:00 am ~ 12:30 pm

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the University of Macau: FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Are Conspiracy Theories Pathological?” by Prof. Lisa Bortolotti, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

2021-06-09 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the University of Macau: FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Chinese and Western Values: Reflections on the Methodology of a Cross-Cultural Dialogue” by Prof. Karl-Heinz Pohl, Trier University, Germany

2021-05-26 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the University of Macau: FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Harmony, Domination, and Freedom” by Prof. Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2021-05-12 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL: Macau Roundtable on the Problem of Transcendence in Phenomenology and Chinese Philosophy

2021-05-09 @ 9:45 am ~ 3:15 pm

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the University of Macau: Macao Humanities Forum#3 by Professor Xiangchen SUN

2021-05-06 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the University of Macau: FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Coming to Terms with Zhū Xī’s Profoundly Influential Heritage: How [Well] did 19th and 20th Century Christian Intellectuals Engage Zhū Xī’s Corpus?” by Prof. Lauren F. Pfister, Hong Kong Baptist University

2021-04-28 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Philosophy Association Movie Screening: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

2021-03-17 @ 7:00 pm ~ 8:30 pm

FAH/DPHIL Guest Lecture – “Observing Trump: A Systems-Theoretical Postscriptum” by Prof. Markus Heidingsfelder, Xiamen University Malaysia

2020-12-16 @ 5:30 pm ~ 7:00 pm

FAH/DPHIL Online Workshop – “The Crisis of Critical Theory? Critical Theory From and Beyond the Margins”

2020-10-24 @ 10:00 am ~ 6:00 pm

Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme Lecture: “Kang Youwei’s Confucianism and Its Relevance to the Contemporary Study of Chinese Philosophy”

2020-01-15 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm

FAH/PHIL: Lisbon-Macau Philosophy Symposium – “Philosophical Encounters between the Lusophone- and the Chinese-speaking World as a bridge between East and West”

2019-12-11 ~ 2019-12-12

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – “An Enactivist Interpretation of Zhuangzi” by Dr. Tang Man To

2019-11-27 @ 4:00 pm

FAH/PHIL Guest Lecture – “The Specific Way of Cultural Assimilation – Taking Chinese Islamic Philosophy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties as a Case Study” by Prof. Liu Yi-hong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

2019-11-27 @ 10:30 am ~ 11:45 am

FAH/PHIL Guest Lecture – “Animal Welfarism and Ritual Slaughtering” by Prof. Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Hunan University, China

2019-11-26 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm

FAH/PHIL Guest Lecture – “Bi-Level Virtue Epistemology” by Prof. Mi Chienkuo, Soochow University, Taiwan

2019-11-22 @ 4:00 pm

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – “The Conception of Time in Classical Confucianism: The Correspondence and Interaction between the Time of History and the Time of Ethics” by Dr. Leung Yat Hung

2019-11-13 @ 5:00 pm

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – “Heidegger’s who-analysis in being and time and his idea of communal being” by Prof. Qingjie Wang

2019-10-30 @ 4:00 pm

FAH/PHIL Conference – “Philosophy of Gambling”

2019-10-18 ~ 2019-10-19

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – “Intercultural Questioning” by Dr. Kwok Sai Hang

2019-10-16 @ 4:00 pm

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – ‘“The Unity of a Spiritual Life”: Husserl on Cultural Phenomenology’ by Prof. Dermot Moran, Boston College, USA

2019-10-03 @ 4:00 pm

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – “A Prolegomenon To Husserl’s Phenomenology of Feeling and Emotion” by Dr. Thomas Byrne

2019-09-25 @ 5:00 pm