High Level Talk Session:
"Dialogue between Philosophy and Science: Towards a New Enlightenment"

In the face of a pandemic, wars, and environmental crises, we need a New Enlightenment. We will reexamine what ethics means for science, go beyond the anthropocentric thinking, and engage in a dialogue between philosophy and science in search of the New Enlightenment which includes organisms and the environment.

Moderated by:

NAKAJIMA Takahiro
Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
Director, East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo

Panelists:

Markus GABRIEL
Professor, University of Bonn, Academic Director, THE NEW INSTITUTE

LEE Sukjae
Professor of Philosophy, Seoul National University

OKI Sayaka
Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo

OOGURI Hirosi
Director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo
Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

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Tokyo Forum 2022

“Dialogue between Philosophy and Science: In a World Facing War, Pandemic, and Climate Change”

In the face of war, a pandemic, and climate change, we cannot repeat the history of the last century, in which our ancestors headed down the road to division, global conflict, and environmental destruction.

How can we live more fully and how do we find a new common understanding about what our society should be? Tokyo Forum 2022 will tackle these questions through a series of in-depth dialogues between philosophy and science. The dialogues will weave together the latest findings and deep contemplation, and explore paths that could lead us to viable answers and solutions.

Philosophy of the 21st century must contribute to the construction of a new universality based on locality and diversity. It should be a universality that is open to co-existing with other non-human elements, such as ecosystems and nature, while severely criticizing the understanding of history that unreflectively identifies anthropocentrism with universality.

Science in the 21st century also needs to dispense with its overarching aura of supremacy and lack of self-criticism. There is a need for scientists to make efforts to demarcate their own limits. This also means reexamining what ethics means for science.

Tokyo Forum 2022 will offer multifaceted dialogues between philosophers, scientists, and scholars from various fields of study on the state and humanity in the 21st century, with a view to imagining and proposing a vision of the society we need.

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