International Conference
Science, Technology, and Human Values in Asian Development

July 27 - 29, 2008
National University of Singapore

Hosted by: Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore (NUS)
with support from: Science, Technology and Society Research Cluster, NUS
and the Religion Research Cluster, NUS

Organizers: Dr Edward Omar Moad (Main Organizer), Dr Loy Hui Chieh, Dr Axel Gelfert (Co-Organizers)

Venue:
USP Conference Room, Block ADM Level 7

Program
Sunday, 27 July
Time: Paper Title:
Author:
   
8:30-9:45
Registration Procedure and Coffee
9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks by Gregory Clancey, Assistant Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences  
10-11:00 Beyond the Linear Model: An Asian Perspective on Science and Technology Ethics
Hideto Nakajima
11-12:00 Facts and Values in the Controversy over the "Pan-Korea Grand Waterway"
Sungook Hong
12-13:00
Lunch
13-14:00 Asia in the Making of the European Renaissance
Arun Balasubramaniam
14-15:00 Scientific Temper, Hindu Scientism, and the Future of Secularism in India
Meera Nanda
15-15:30
Tea
15:30-16:30 Moral Mediators in a Technological World
Lorenzo Magnani
16:30-17:30-
 The Value of Technology in the Space of Narrative: A Comparative Assessment
Jeffrey Benjamin White
18:00
Dinner
Monday, 28 July
Time: Paper Title:
Author:
9-10:00
Husain Heriyanto
10-11:00 Mencius and the Natural Environment
Cecilia Wee
11-12:00 Environmental Ethics and the Ikhwan al-Safa'
Mulyadhi Kartanegara
12-13:00
Lunch
13-14:00 Nanotechnology and Asian Values
Soraj Hongaladarom
14-15:00 Genetically Modified (GM) Crops: Reflections on Central Issues, Indian Perspectives and Ethical Responses from Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgita
Pragati Sahni
15-15:30
Tea
15:30-16:30 The Reception of Biotechnology in the Islamic World: Paradigms for Discussion
Anke Iman Bouzenita
16:30-17:30 The Late Philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Its Implications for the Proper Role of Contemporary Biotechnology
Ping-cheung Lo
18:00
Dinner
Tuesday, 29 July
Time: Paper Title:
Author:
9-10:00
Jacqueline Chin
10 - 11:00 The Inorganic Relationship: A Confucian Justification for Organ Trading
Voo Teck Chuan
10 - 11:00 Whose Ethics? Which Priority? Dilemmas of Long-term Care for Older Persons
Julia Tao
12:30
Lunch
  
 
(End of Conference)