International Conference on Humanities Therapy in Technosociety
8-9 July 2025 @Kangwon National University
Date: 8-9 July 2025
Venue: College of Humanities, Kangwon National University
Host: Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University
Co-Hosts:
l Institute of Philosophical Practice, Kangwon National University
l BK21 4CP Philosophical Practice Specialist Training for Ordinary and Extraordinary Lives, Kangwon National University
l The School of Philosophy, Nanjing University
l The Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Nanjing University
l Korean Society of Philosophical Counseling
l East Asian Society of Philosophical Practice
l Korean Society of Humanities Therapy
Sponsored by: National Research Foundation of Korea, Kangwon National University
Conference Program Schedule
Day 1 (July 8)
Time | Room 1, 2-210 | Room 2, 2-307 |
09:30 - 10:00 | Opening Ceremony (Main Hall, 2-208) Opening Address Minyong Lee (Director of Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University)
Congratulatory Addresses Pan Tianqun (Nanjing University) Sungmi Jung (President of Korean Society of Humanities Therapy) Sun-Hye Kim (President of Korean Society of Philosophical Counseling)
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10:00 - 10:45 | Keynote 1 (Main Hall, 2-208) “Spiritual Issues in Philosophical Counseling” Bernard Li (Fu Jen Catholic University) | |
10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 -12:30 | Session 1 Mental Health and Well-being in Digital Society | Session 2 Humanities Therapy and Philosophical Practice (Part 1) |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
13:30 - 14:15 | Keynote 2 (Main Hall, 2-208) “On Therapeutic Function of Philosophical Practice” Tianqun Pan (Nanjing University) | |
14:20 -15:50 | Session 3 Humanities Therapy and Philosophical Practice (Part 2) | Session 4 Human Relationships and Digital Communication |
15:50 - 16:05 | Coffee Break | |
16:10 - 17:50 | Session 5 Technology and Therapeutic Practice | Session 6 Healing Through H 공항 픽업 콜밴 예약 (Lou Marinoff)umanities (Part 1) |
17:50 - 18:00 | Closing Remarks | |
18:00 - | Dinner | |
Day 2 (July 9)
Time | Room 1 | Room 2 |
09:30 - 10:15 | Keynote 3 (Main Hall, 2-208) “Homo Furax, AI, and Dehumanization” Lou Marinoff (The City College of the City University of New York) | |
10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 12:00 | Session 7 Healing Through Humanities (Part 2) | Session 8 Communication and Care in Digital Culture |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
13:00 - 13:45 | Keynote 4 (Main Hall, 2-208) “On the concept of Similar Other. Towards a New Philosophy of Analogy” Koichiro Kokubun (University of Tokyo) | |
13:45 - 14:00 | Coffee Break | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Session 9 Future Directions in Humanities Therapy and Philosophical Practice | Session 10 Education and Development in Philosophical Practice |
15:30 - 16:00 | Closing Ceremony (Main Hall, 2-208) Closing Remarks Young E. Rhee (East Asian Society of Philosophical Practice) Closing Address Minyong Lee (Director of Humanities Institute, Kangwon National
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Presentation Time Allocation
ﾷ Keynote Presentations: 30 minutes presentation + 10 minutes Q&A
ﾷ Regular Presentations: 25 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A
Session 1: Mental Health and Well-being in Digital Society
Moderated by Jin Xin (Nanjing University)
ﾷ Hee Kim (Kangwon National University), “Philosophical Practice in the Age of Digital Culture”
ﾷ Jian Ma (China University of Mining Technology, Xuzhou), “The Social Time of Digital Capital Era:
Based on a Health and Science Perspective”
ﾷ Huiyi Xu (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), “Empathy Without Emotion? Expressive
Mechanisms and the Illusion of Feeling in AI Companionship”
Session 2: Humanities Therapy and Philosophical Practice (Part 1)
Moderated by Ki-Myoung Kim (Kangwon National University)
ﾷ Lizeng Zhang (Shandong Normal University), “A Practice Path of Philosophical Counseling in China:
Embedded into Social Work”
ﾷ Sin Yong Han (Kangwon National University), “A Philosophical-Practical Approach to Hume’s Pyrrhonism”
ﾷ Yifei Hu; Zhonghe Liang (Sichuan University), “The harmony of virtue, reason and soul -Plato’s practical art of healing the body and mind with virtue and justice”
Session 3: Humanities Therapy and Philosophical Practice (Part 2)
Moderated by Boram Lim (Kangwon National University)
ﾷ Ying-Fen Su (Fu Jen Catholic University), “The Dialogue between Chinese Neo-Scholasticism and Philosophical Counseling: Taking Pride as Example”
ﾷ YoonJi Choi (Kangwon National University), “Solitude as a Process of Self-Overcoming: A Philosophical Counseling Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Concept of ‘Einsamkeit’”
ﾷ Sang-Mok Lim (Kangwon National University),
“A Study on the Therapeutic Potential of Philosophical Counseling Based on the Meditative Principles of Tiantai Zhiguan”
Session 4: Human Relationships and Digital Communication
Moderated by Yonghee Lee (Kangwon National University)
ﾷ Bokshim Ko (Kangwon National University), “Philosophical Practices for Overcoming Social Isolation
in the Hyper-connected World: A Study on Yulgok’s Thought for Community Restoration”
ﾷ Hae-jin Lee (Sogang University), “The Need for Restoring Local Public Spheres in a Hyperconnected Age:
Findings from Korean Classical Literature”
ﾷ Lucas Scripter (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), “Narrative Theories of Meaning in Life and Social Media”
Session 5: Technology and Therapeutic Practice
Moderated by Lizeng Zhang (Shandong Normal University)
ﾷ Chien-Chi Lu (Taiwan Philosophical Counseling Association), “Exploring the Integration of AI Chatbot and Philosophical Counseling:
A Comparative Analysis of Logic-Based Therapy (LBT) and the Applications of Woebot, Wysa, and Replika”
ﾷ Jiayi Xin, Xiaojun Ding, Caifeng Xie (Xi’an Jiaotong University), “When Machines Counsel: An Empirical Study Exploring the Potential of AI-Driven Philosophical Counseling”
ﾷ Rui Cao (Nanjing University), “Digital Hoarding: Existential Anxiety and Cognitive Restructuring in the Hyperconnected World”
Session 6: Healing Through Humanities (Part 1)
Moderated by Ning Zhao (Shanghai University)
ﾷ Suchitra Srivastava (Sreegopal Banerjee College), “When Ink and Colour Mend:
Art, Literature, and the Emotional Alchemy of Healing”
ﾷ In-sun Yoon (Hanbat National University), “A Study on Literary Therapy for Multicultural Children through Image-Based Self-Narrative Reading”
ﾷ Minyong Lee (Kangwon National University), “Social Narrative and A. Frank’s Illness Narrative from the Perspective of Socio-Narratology”
Session 7: Healing Through Humanities (Part 2)
Moderated by Xiaojun Ding (Xi’an Jiaotong University)
ﾷ Qiong Wang (State University of New York at Oneonta), “Experiential Knowing: Examples from Confucianism and Buddhism”
ﾷ Ning Zhao (Shanghai University), “Therapeutic Wisdom of Wang Yangming’s Zhiliangzhi”
ﾷ Tae Hyeong Lee (Kangwon National University), “Wang Yangming’s Concept of Liangzhi (良知) as Wuti (無體) and Its Philosophical Practice”
Session 8: Communication and Care in Digital Culture
Moderated by Ying-Fen Su (Fu Jen Catholic University)
ﾷ Boram Im (Kangwon National University), “Exploring the Rhetorical Potential of Synchronicity:
Reading Acausal Events in the Age of Hyperconnectivity”
ﾷ Lotte van Elteren, Anco Peeters (Radboud University), “Providing the Akratic Person Meaningful Human Control with Generative AI”
ﾷ Xuan Fang, Yu Gao (Nanjing University), “Reconstructing Meaning in Philosophical Practice:
A Phenomenological Exploration of the Lebenswelt of Individuals with Schizophrenia”
Session 9: Future Directions in Humanities Therapy and Philosophical Practice
Moderated by Young E. Rhee (Dongkuk University)
ﾷ Jegal-Gunn (Catholic University of Korea), Myong-hee Cha (Kangwon National University),
“A Study on the Development of a Four Major Addiction Therapy Model Based on Mencius’ Four Beginnings and Four Virtues”
ﾷ Jin Xin (Nanjing University),
“Bridging Socrates and Silicon: AI-Assisted Philosophy for Children (P4C) in the Digital Age”
ﾷ Wonhyeok Kwon (Kangwon University),
“A Historical-Philosophical Exploration of Nietzsche’s Notion of Innerlichkeit (Inwardness)
and Its Critique, as a Basis for a Critical Reflection on Inwardness
in Modern Society and a Practical-Philosophical Approach to Its Challenges”
Session 10: Education and Development in Philosophical Practice
Moderated by Soo Ah Kim
ﾷ Woonyong Kim (Kangwon National University),
“Philosophy Education as Philosophical Practice and Reflective Equilibrium: Focusing on the Revisability of Intuition”
ﾷ Jung-Ouk Yang (Kangwon National University),
“Exploring Narratives of Humanistic Therapeutic Growth Experiences: Focusing on Erikson’s 8 Psychosocial Stages”
ﾷ Yanxi Li (Kangwon National University),
“The Possibility of Confucian Therapeutics in Yulgok’s Self-Cultivation Way”
ﾷ Jung-Ha Lee (Kangwon National University),
“A Question of Relation between Philosophy and Practice: in Adorno and Husserl’s Thought”