Soraj Hongladarom
Room 1025, Boromratchakumari Building,
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok 11000, Thailand
hsoraj@chula.ac.th
Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.
Tel. +66 (0) 2218-1173; Fax. +66 (0) 2218-4755
Personal web page: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html
Employment
1991-Present Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University.
Professional Association
2016-Present President, Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand (http://www.parst.or.th/)
1993-Present Member, American Philosophical Association
2013-Present Founding Member, Asia-Pacific Society for Food and Agriculture Ethics
2003-Present Member, Ethics Committee, Association of Internet Researchers (http://aoir.org/)
Educational Background
1987-1991 Ph.D. (philosophy), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1991, Ph. D. Dissertation: "Imagination in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason." Adviser: Frederick Beiser.
1984-1987 M.A. (philosophy), Indiana University, 1987.
1979-1983 B.A. (First Class Honors) English, Chulalongkorn University, 1983.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of technology, information ethics, Kant
Areas of Competence
Bioethics, applied ethics, early modern philosophy, Buddhist philosophy
Teaching Experiences
Ethics and Science, Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Logic, Symbolic Logic, Seminar in Epistemology, Critical Reasoning, Philosophy and Literature, German Philosophy, Science in Culture and Society, Philosophy of Sex and Love, Philosophy of Technology, Modern Philosophy, Greek Philosophy
Conference Organization
2022 The 8th Workshop on Multicultural, Religion, and Bioethics, UNESCO Biochair, September 19 – 23, 2022, Royal River Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
2022 Global Philosophy of Religion Workshop, September 5-7, 2022, Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
2022 Capacity Building Workshop, Incubating Feminist AI Project, May 20, 2022, Royal River Hotel, Bangkok Thailand
2021 The Eighth UNESCO Workshop on Bioethics, Multiculturalism, and Religion, Chulalongkorn University, November 8-10, 2021, in collaboration with the UNESCO Biochair, Rome, Italy
2017 The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand
2016 Aristotle in Thai Society, international seminar supported by the Embassy of Greece in Thailand in celebration of Aristotle’s 2,400 anniversary, Srinakarinwirot University, October 2016.
2013 The First International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (APSAFE2013), November 28 – 30, 2013. http://www.apsafe2013.org/
2007 The Third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference, Chulalongkorn University, November 2-4, 2007.
2007 The Eighth Asian Bioethics Conference, Chulalongkorn University, March 19-23, 2007 (supported by the Wellcome Trust).
2005 The Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference, Chulalongkorn University, January 7-9, 2005.
2002 International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002), Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, April 3-5, 2002.
Research Grants
2021-2022 “Spinoza and Buddhism,” funded by Chulalongkorn University through the national budget
2021-2022 “Philosophy of Appropriated Religions,” part of the Global Philosophy of Religion Project, University of Birmingham
2021-2024 “Incubating Feminist AI Project,” funded by the International Research Development Centre, Canada
2019-2020 “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence,” funded by the Ratchapisek Fund, Chulalongkorn University.
2017-2018 “Developing Research and Evaluation System: Responding to the Challenges in the Development the Research System of the Country,” funded by the National Commission on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Office.
2016-2017 “Corruption: Foundations in Ethics and Political Philosophy,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand.
2015-2018 “Creating an Environment for Open Science in Thailand,” funded by Chulalongkorn University.
2015 “Creating an Immunity for Local Communities through Recognition of Bundle of Forestry Rights: Towards Sustainable Management of Forest Resources under the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand.
2015 “Strategy Formulation in Support of Non-Timber Uses and Conservation of Trees under the Three Forests, Four Benefits Principle,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand.
2015 “Ethics of Big Data,” funded by the World Class University Project, Chulalongkorn University.
2014 “Information Technology, Human Security and Global Justice,” funded by the Silver Jubilee Fund, Chulalongkorn University.
2012 “Ethics of Sex Change Surgery: When Biology becomes a Choice,” funded by the Silver Jubilee Fund, Chulalongkorn University.
2012 “The Philosophy of Intellectual Property Rights,” funded by the Thailand Research Fund.
2012 “Buddhism in World Literature,” funded by the 100th Anniversary Academic Project, Chulalongkorn University.
2010 “Aging and Health: Social and Spiritual Dimensions,” funded by World Class University Project, Chulalongkorn University.
2009-2012 “Ethical implications of Aging,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand (contd.)
2009-2012 “Nanotechnology and Asian Values,” part of the Nanoethics Research Group funded by Chulalongkorn University (contd.)
2008 Traveling grant for research and teaching, Erasmus Mundus MA in Applied Ethics Program, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway and Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
2008 Research Group on Information Ethics, funded by the Commission on Higher Education, Thailand
2008 “Ethical implications of Aging,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand
2008 “Nanotechnology and Asian Values,” part of the Nanoethics Research Group funded by Chulalongkorn University
2007 Grant for organizing the Asia-Europe Workshop on Technology and Culture, provided by the International Institute of Asian Studies and the Asia-Europe Foundation.
2007 Grant for organizing the 8th Asian Bioethics Conference, funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK.
2007 Grant for organizing the 3rd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference, granted by the Commission on Higher Education.
2006-2009 “Privacy in Information Technology and Biotechnology,” funded by the Thailand Research Fund
2007 “Development of Retirement Index for Government Workers,” funded by the National Economic and Social Advisory Board of Thailand.
2005-2008 Local Societies Initiative grant, for the Thousand Stars Buddhism and Science Group. The grant is administered by the Local Societies Initiative, Metanexus Institute, with the objective of promoting dialogs on science and religion.
2006-2007 “Development of Teaching Program for the Development of Quality of Life of the Thai Elderly,” funded by the National Economic and Social Advisory Council, Thailand.
2006-2007 “The Role of the Universities in Information Technology Development in Asia,” funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, in cooperation with the Center for Internet Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. More details.
2004-2006 “ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE,” Project for development of a curriculum on bioethics, funded through the Asean-EU University Network Programme, the European Commission.
2003-2006 “Ethics of the Global Digital Divide,” funded by the Thailand Research Fund
2003-2006 Co-ordinator for the Project on “Science in Thai Culture and Society,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand.
2002 DAAD Fellowship for a research stay at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, April 17 to June 17, 2002.
2001-2003 “Desirable Thai Labor Skills in the Future,” funded by the Thailand Research Fund.
2001-2003 “Computer-mediated Communication and Thai Culture: A Philosophical Exploration,” funded by the Thailand Research Fund.
2001-2002 “Chulalongkorn University and the Society,” funded by Research Division, Chulalongkorn University.
1998-2000 “Science in Thai Culture,” funded by the Thailand Research Fund.
1998-1999 “Critical Thinking and Thai Culture,” funded by the Silver Jubilee Fund, Chulalongkorn University.
1998 “Science Education for the Next Century,” funded by the Thailand Research Fund.
1996-1997 “Directions for Philosophy in Thailand,” funded by the National Research Council of Thailand.
Publications
Books
2021 Hongladarom, S., & Joaquin, J. J. (eds.) Love and Friendship Across Cultures. Springer.
2020 The Ethics of AI and Robotics: A Buddhist Viewpoint (Rowman and Littlefield).
2017 General Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University Press [in Thai].
2016 The Online Self, Springer.
2016 A Buddhist Theory of Privacy, Springer.
2015 (Editor), Food Security and Food Safety in the Twenty-First Century, Springer.
2015 Philosophy of Language. 2nd Edition. Chulalongkorn University Press [in Thai].
2010 Dechung Rinpoche. Three Levels of Spiritual Perception. Translated by Soraj Hongladarom. Bangkok: The Thousand Stars Press [in Thai].
2008 Nagarjuna. Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way. Translated by Soraj Hongladarom. Bangkok: The Thousand Stars Press [in Thai].
2007 (Editor with Charles Ess). Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives. Hershey, PA: Idea-Group.
2007 (Editor.) Computing and Philosophy in Asia: Selected Papers from the Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference, Cambridge Scholar Press, 2007.
2007 Shantideva. A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life. Translated from an edition by Alan Wallace and Vesna B. Wallace by Soraj Hongladarom. Bangkok: The Thousand Stars Press [in Thai].
2005 (Editor). Death and Dying: Perspectives from Science and Religion. Bangkok: The Thousand Stars Press [in Thai].
2003 (Editor.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002). Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.
2002 Science in Thai Society and Culture. Bangkok: Institute for Academic Development [in Thai].
2001 Symbolic Logic. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press [in Thai].
Research Monograph
1998 “Horizon of Philosophy: Knowledge, Philosophy and Thai Society.” Unpublished monograph of research funded by the National Research Council of Thailand.
Articles and Book Chapters
2022 Hongladarom, S., Vanichaka, P. A brief history of western philosophy in Thailand: mid seventeenth to the end of twentieth century. AJPH 1, 24 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-022-00030-6
2022 The Humanities, Interdisciplinarity, and the Mission of the University. Darshika: Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities, 2(1), 7–18. Retrieved from https://so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJIIH/article/view/1210
2021 Nano-ethics: A view from a developing country, In: Marcel Van de Voorde and Gunjan Jeswani, Ethics in Nanotechnology: Social Sciences and Philosophical Aspects. Walter de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719932
2021 Thailand national AI ethics guideline: an analysis, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 480-491. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0005
2021 Buddhist Perspectives on Gestational Surrogacy. In: Tham, J., Garcia Gómez, A., Lunstroth, J. (eds) Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction. Religion and Human Rights, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86938-0_6
2021 Charles Ess's Pros Hen Ethical Pluralism: An Interpretation. Journal of Contemporary East Asia, 20(1), 120-133.
2021 Buddhism and Abortion. In: Bagheri, A. (eds) Abortion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63023-2_15
2020 Review of Shoshana Zuboff, The age of surveillance capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01100-0.
2020 Machine hermeneutics, postphenomenology, and facial recognition technology. AI & SOCIETY, 1-8.
2020 Trust and Reputation in the Sharing Economy: Toward a Peer-to-Peer Ethics. The International Review of Information Ethics, 28.
2020 Normativity in Buddhism and its Application in Bioethics. In Dealing with Bioethical Issues in a Globalized World (pp. 95-113). Springer, Cham.
2019 “Anonymity and commitment: how do Kierkegaard and Dreyfus fare in the era of Facebook and “post-truth”?” AI and Society 34.2: 289-299.
2018 “Meditation or medication? A Buddhist response.” Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes and the Self. Routledge, 49-53.
2018 “Rights Can Coexist with Buddhism: A Buddhist Response to Ellen Zhang.” Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health. Springer, Cham, 27-32.
2018 “Food, Technology, and Identity.” Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective. Springer, Cham, 2018. 213-221.
2017 “A Buddhist Response to Ellen Zhang’s ‘On Human Rights and Freedom in Biomedical Ethics’.” Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights. Springer, Cham, 2017. 91-96.
2017 “Learning and interdependence: Towards a Buddhism-inspired theory of learning.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU) 6.2.
2017 “Internet Research Ethicsin Non-Western Context.” Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age.
2017 “Big Data, Digital Traces and the Metaphysics of the Self.” In Thomas Powers (ed.), Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics, Springer.
2017 “Searle and Buddhism on the Non-Self.” Comparative Philosophy 8 (1).
2016 “Critical Thinking and Culture: Shared Values, Different Guises,” in Göran Collste (Editor), Ethics and Communication: Global Perspectives, Rowman & Littlefield, 125-142.
2016 “Intercultural Information Ethics: A Pragmatic Consideration,” in Matthew Kelly and Jared Bielby (Editors), Information Cultures in the Digital Age: A Festschrift in Honor of Rafael Capurro, Springer, 191-206.
2015 “Brain-Brain Integration in 2035: Metaphysical and Ethical Implications,” Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 13(3-4), 205-217.
2015 “Spinoza and Buddhism on the Self,” The Oxford Philosopher. Available at https://theoxfordphilosopher.com/2015/07/29/spinoza-buddhism-on-the-self/
2015 “Information Technology: Ethics,” in Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, Springer.
2015 “Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security: The Role of External Relations,” in Soraj Hongladarom (Ed.) Food Security and Food Safety in the Twenty-first Century, Springer.
2015 “Buddhism,” in Handbook of Global Bioethics, Springer, 2015.
2013 Review of Tamar Szabo Gendler, Intuition, Imagination & Philosophical Methodology. Minds and Machines, 23(4), 509-513.
2013 “Ubiquitous Computing, Empathy and the Self,” AI and Society, 28, 227-236.
2012 Review of Don Ihde, Heidegger’s Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives. Minds and Machines. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-012-9296-9/fulltext.html
2012 “Editorial: Nanoethics in the Asian Context.” NanoEthics 6(2), 117-118.
2011 “Personal Identity and the Self in the Online and Offline World,” Minds and Machines 21(4), 533-548.
2011 “The Overman and the Arahant: Models of Human Perfection in Nietzsche and Buddhism,” Asian Philosophy 21(1), 53-69.
2009 “Privacy, the Individual and Genetic Information: A Buddhist Perspective,” Bioethics 23(7), 403-412.
2011 “Cyber-Buddhism: Fundamentalism, the Internet and Public Sphere in Thailand,” in Ulrika Martensson and Priscilla Ringrose (Editors), Reflections of Fundamentalism in the Public Sphere: Knowledge, State Power, and Media Communication, I. B. Taurus Publisher 216-236 (with Krisadawan Hongladarom).
2009 “Nanotechnology, Development and Buddhist Values,” Nanoethics 3(2), 97-107.
2008 “Universalism and Particularism Debate in ‘Asian Bioethics’,” Asian Bioethics Review. Inaugural Edition, 1-14.
2008 “Floridi and Spinoza on Global Information Ethics,” Ethics and Information Technology, 10, 175–187.
2008 “Privacy, Contingency, Identity and the Group,” in R. Luppicini and Rebecca Adell (Editors), Handbook of Research on Technoethics. Vol. II. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 496-511.
2007 “Can Knowledge be Owned and Commodified?” In Cushla Kapitzke and Michael A. Peters (Editors), Global knowledge Cultures, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 25-40.
2008 “Searle and Buddhism on the Mind and the Non-Self,” in Bo Mou (Editor), Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy, Leiden: Brill, 169-188.
2007 “Eighth Asian Bioethics Conference,” Personalized Medicine 4(3), 373-377.
2007 “Global Digital Divide, Global Justice, Cultures and Epistemology,” in Emma Rooksby and John Weckert (Editors), Information Technology and Social Justice. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, 93-110.
2007 “Information Divide, Information Flow and Global Justice,” International Review of Information Ethics 7, available at http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/007/08-hongladarom.pdf.
2006 “Love in the Age of High Technology: How are Metta and Karuna Possible?” Prajna Vihara: Journal of Philosophy and Religion 7(2), 141-156.
2006 “Ethics of Bioinformatics: A Convergence between Bioethics and Computer Ethics,” Asian Biotechnology and Development Review 9(1), 37-44.
2005 “The Asian Information Society and the Aims of Education,” Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 9(1), 151-162.
2005 “Categories and Logical Forms in Kant’s Metaphysical Deduction,” MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities 8(1), 22-37.
2005 “Cultures and Global Justice,” in Warayuth Srivorakuel et al (Editors), Cultural Traditions and Contemporary Challenges in Southeast Asia: Hindu and Buddhist, Washington, DC: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 313-326.
2005 “Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: A Buddhist Perspective,” in John Weckert (Editor), Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Controversies and Solutions, Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 208-226.
2005 “Politeness in Thai Computer-mediated Communication,” [with Krisadawan Hongladarom]. In Robin Lakoff and Sachiko Ide (Editors), Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness. John Benjamins, 145-162.
2004 “Human Cloning in a Thai Novel: Wimon Sainimnuan’s Amata and Thai Cultural Attitudes Toward Biotechnology,” in Margaret Sleeboom (Editor), Genomics in Asia: A Clash of Bioethical Interests?, London: Kegan Paul, 85-106.
2004 “Introduction: the ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project,” Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 14(6), 193-194.
2004 “Asian Bioethics Revisited: What Is It?, and Is There Such a Thing?” Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 14(6), 194-197.
2004 “Time, Technology and Globalization,” [with Mike Kelly]. Journal of Philosophy in the Contemporary World 11(2), 55-62.
2004 “Turning Digital Divide into Digital Dividend: Anticipating Thailand's Demographic Dividend,” [with Achara Entz]. In Kua Wongbunsin (Editor), Six Last Golden Years of Economic Competitiveness: Results of Demographic Change. Bangkok: Thailand Research Fund, 135-146. [in Thai].
2004 “Making Information Transparent as a Means to Close the Global Digital Divide,” Minds and Machines 14(1), 85-99.
2004 “Growing Science in Thai Soil: Culture and Development of Scientific and Technological Capabilities in Thailand,” Science, Technology and Society 9(1), 51-73.
2003 “Exploring the Philosophical Terrain of the Digital Divide,” in J. Weckert and Y. Al-Saggaf (Editors), Computers and Philosophy 2003: Selected Papers from the Computers and Philosophy Conference (CAP 2003). Volume 37 in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series. Sydney: Australian Computer Society, 85-90.
2003 “Looking Forward: Overcoming the Genetic Divide through Information Technology,” Biotechnology and Development Monitor 50, 44.
2002 “The Web of Time and the Dilemma of Globalization,” The Information Society 18, 241-249.
2002 “Cross-cultural Epistemic Practices,” Social Epistemology 16(1), 83-92.
2002 “Globalization, Bioethics and the Cultures of Developing World,” Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 12(3), 103-105.
2002 “Hope in the Information Society,” in Hopefully Yours: Interdisciplinary Essays on Hope from Scientific and Religious Perspectives. Pune: Jnanam, 2002.
2001 “Kulturelle Differenz als kulturelles Konstrukt,” in Reinhard Düssel, Geert Edel und Ulrich Schödlbauer (Hrsg.), Die Macht der Differenzen. Heidelberg: Synchron, 71-79.
2001 “Cultures and Global Justice,” Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophizing 2, 1-34, available at http://www.polylog.org/them/2/fcs2-en.htm.
2000 “Democracy and Culture in Thailand,” Humanitas Asiatica 1(1), 47-67.
2000 “Humanistic Learning and the Medical Curriculum,” Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 83(8), 969-974 (with Sukhit Phaosawasdi, Surasak Taneepanichskul, Yuen Tannirandorn, Henry Wilde, and Chumsak Pruksapong).
2000 “Negotiating the Global and the Local: How Thai Culture Co-opts the Internet,” First Monday 5(8), available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_8/hongladarom/index.html .
1999 “A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves: A Note on Wallace Stevens’ ‘The Man With the Blue Guitar,’” Thoughts, 64-71.
1999 “Medical Ethics in the Changing Cultural Milieu or Thai Society,” Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 82(11), 1174-1180.
1999 “Global Culture, Local Cultures, and the Internet: the Thai Example,” AI & Society 13, 389-401. Also published in Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeksds (Editors), Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001, 307-324.
1999 “Review of Wendy Griswold, Cultures and Societies in the Changing World,” AI & Society 13, 450-451.
1999 “Review of Ray Billington, Understanding Eastern Philosophy,” Philosophy in Review, 19(1), 3-4.
1998 “Buddhism and Human Rights in the Thoughts of Sulak Sivaraksa and Phra Dhammapidok (Prayudh Prayutto),” In Damien V. Keown, Charles S. Prebish, and Wayne R. Husted (Editors), Buddhism and Human Rights. Curzon Press, 97-109.
1998 “On the Internet and Cultural Differences,” APA Newsletters on Computer and Philosophy. Jon Darbolo (Editor), 97(2), 46-48.
1998 “Humanistic Education in Today's and Tomorrow’s World,” Manusya: Journal of Humanities 1(1), 47-58.
1997 “Review of Josef Niznik and John T. Sanders, eds., Debate on the Status of Philosophy,” Philosophy in Review. 15(4), 271-272.
1997 “Artistic Creation and Scientific Investigation,” Chula Research 16(9), 8-9 [in Thai].
1996 “Buddhism and the Solution of Philosophical Problems,” Journal of Buddhist Studies 4(1), 71-87 [in Thai].
1996 “Global Media and Democracy: A Reply to Gwynne Dyer,” Dianoia: A Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Journal 5(1), 1-8.
1994 “Postmodernism in Thai Poetry,” Asian Review 1994, 8, 21-40.
1993 “Reflections on Literature and Philosohy upon Reading Saksiri Meesomsueb’s Mue Nan Si Khao,” Journal of Thai Language and Literature 10(2), 1-15 [in Thai].
1992 “Language, Meaning and Truth,” Journal of Thai Language and Literature 9(1), 1-21 [in Thai].
1992 “Philosophical Problems Concerning Color,” Journal of the Faculty of Arts 24(1), 95-106 [in Thai].
Presented at Meetings (no longer updated as of June 2022)
2016 A Buddhist Response to Ellen Zhang’s Neurogenomics and Neuro-Eudaimonics: Bioethical Challenges from Buddhist Perspectives. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion, on “Bioethical Challenges of Neurogenomics,” MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, November 14-16, 2016.
2016 Ethical Aspects of Citizen Science. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference ASIALICS, October 3-4, 2016.
2016 Surrogacy in Thailand. Paper presented at an internaiontal workshop on Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy, University of Hong Kong, September 9-10, 2016.
2016 Normativity in Buddhism and its Application in Bioethics. Paper presented at a Symposium and Book Project on “Normativity in Bioethics,” Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, May 10-11, 2016.
2016 Possible Eclectivism in the Reception of Western Knowledge in Mid-Nineteenth Century Siam. Paper presented at an international meeting: “Great Confrontations,” February 9-10, 2016, Osaka University, Japan.
2015 The Online Self as a Construct. Paper presented at the International Seminar: “Identities: Environment, Language, Literature,” Lady Keane College, Shillong, India, August 7-8, 2015.
2015 Big Data, Digital Traces and the Metaphysics of the Self. Paper presented at a CEPE/ETHICOMP Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, June 22-26, 2015.
2015 Buddhism and Spinoza on the Self. Paper presented at the International Symposium on “Philosophies in Dialogue: Bridging the Great Philosophical Divides,” Chulalongkorn University, March 26-28, 2015.
2015 Love Potion in the 21st Century. Paper presented at the Asian Bioethics Colloquium 2015, National University of Singapore, February 8-10, 2015.
2014 A Buddhist Response to Ellen Zhang’s Paper on “Social Responsibility and Healthcare: A Buddhist Perspective.” Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion, Anahuac University, Mexico city, November 10-12, 2014.
2014 Creating Synergies between Academia and Industry: A View from Thailand. Presented at a meeting on Research Partnerships and Collaboration Forum 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 12-13, 2014.
2014 Metaphysical and Ethical Implications of Mind-Machine Integration in 2035. Paper presented at the CEPE/ETHICOMP Conference, Paris, France, June 23-27, 2014.
2014 The Online Self: Thai Construction of Online Identity and its Philosophical Ramifications. Paper presented at the Global STS Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 14-15, 2014.
2013 A Response to Ellen Zhang’s “On Human Rights and Freedom in Biomedical Ethics: A Philosophical Inquiry in Light of Buddhism.” Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion, Hong Kong SAR, December 3-5, 2013.
2013 Asian Bioethics, or Bioethics in Asia: New Directions, New Challenges. Paper presented at a series of meetings organized by the Japanese Bioethics Association, October 14-23, 2013.
2013 Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security: The Role of External Relations. Keynote Paper Presented at the 11th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSAFE), Uppsala, Sweden, September 11-14, 2013.
2013 A Reflection on Nalanda Monastery as an Inspiration for Promoting Scientific and Technological Capabilities in Asia. Presented at a seminar on “Bright Dark Ages: Comparative and Connective Perspectives,” National University of Singapore, February 27-28, 2013.
2013 The Creation of the Self in the Online World, and the Possibilities to Make Information Active and Meaningful. Presented at the meeting on The Power of Information, Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium, January 23-24, 2013.
2012 How Buddhist Philosophy is Unique: Content, Orientation and Paradox. Presented at the meeting of the International Society for Buddhist Philosophy (ISBP) at the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December 27 – 30, 2012.
2012 Introduction to Net Neutrality. Presented at the First Digital Democracy Conference, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, November 20, 2012.
2012 Buddhist Perspective on Privacy. Presented at the Tsukuba Workshop on Information Ethics, organized by the Laboratory of Advanced Research, University of Tsukuba, Japan, October 4 – 5, 2012.
2012 Introduction to Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology. Keynote address at the workshop on “Ethics of Nanotechnology - Research and applications,” Colombo, Sri Lanka, organized by the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, September 11, 2012.
2012 The Extended Lifespan and the Meaning of Life. Presented at the World Congress of Bioethics. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 26 – 29, 2012.
2012 Facebook and Thai Politics. Presented at the Fourth ICT and Society Conference, “Critique, Democracy and Philosophy,” May 2 – 4, 2012, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2012 Synthetic Biology, Intellectual Property and Buddhism: A Response to Gregory Kaebnick. Presented at the Fourth GABEX International Meeting, January 7 – 9, 2012, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 Genetic Information: Direct to Consumers or Gatekeeping?. Presented at the Fourth GABEX International Meeting, January 7 – 9, 2012, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 A Buddhist Perspective on Four Vulnerable Groups: Children, Women, the Elderly and the Disabled. Presented at Second International Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion Workshop and Conference on Human Vulnerability, Facoltà di Bioetica, Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum, Rome, Italy, October 9 – 11, 2011.
2011 Intellectual Property Rights and Compassion. Presented at the Conference of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy, July 4 – 6, 2011, Aarhus, Denmark.
2011 Free Speech and Hate Speech. Talk organized by the Thai Netizen Network and Heinrich Böll Foundation, Chulalongkorn University, June 16, 2011.
2011 Limits of Variety in Information Ethics. Keynote panel presented at the CEPE 2011 Conference, “Crossing Boundaries, May 31 – June 3, 2011, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2011 Information Technology and Human Security. Presented at the Society of Philosophy of Technology Meeting, Denton, Texas, May 26 – 29, 2011.
2011 Learning and Interdependence: Towards a Buddhism-Inspired Theory of Learning. Presented at the International Conference on “Exploring Leadership and Learning Theories in Asia Conference 2011 (ELLTA), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, February 15 – 17, 2011.
2011 Biotechnology as a Tool for Equality and Justice. Presented at the International Workshop on “Asian Biopoleis: Biotechnology & Biomedicine as Emergent Forms of Life & Practice,” National University of Singapore, January 6 – 7, 2011.
2010 A Path toward Genuine Political Pluralism in Thailand. Presented at the International Conference on Rethinking Realities, Reimagining Pluralism: Future Landscapes of Pluralism for Democratic Societies, December 14 – 15, 2010, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
2010 Nietzsche on “The Question Mark”: A Note on The Gay Science, Book Five, Section 346. Presented at the Chulalongkorn International Conference of Oriental Studies (CHICOS) In Commemoration of the Centenary of King Chulalongkorn’s Death, November 23 – 25, 2010.
2010 Genetic Information, Personal Identity and the Self: A Social and Pragmatic Consideration. Presented at the Tenth World Congress of Bioethics, Singapore, July 28 – 31, 2010.
2010 A Reflection on Nalanda Monastery as an Inspiration for Promoting Scientific and Technological Capabilities in Asia. Presented at the Conference on the Bright Dark Ages: Rethinking Needham’s Question, May 20 – 21, 2010, Singapore.
2010 Buddhist Perspective on Self and Identity. Presented at the Workshop on “Who am I Online?”, Aarhus, Denmark, May 10 – 11, 2010.
2009 Ethical Considerations in Nanotechnology and Aging. Presented at the Tenth Asian Bioethics Conference, Tehran, Iran, April 27 – 30, 2009.
2008 Nanotechnology and Buddhist Values. Presented at the Workshop on “Ethics and Society,” Center for Applied Ethics. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 24 – 25 November 2008.
2008 Privacy from a Buddhist Perspective. Presented at the 2nd European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Tartu, Estonia, 20 – 23 August 2008.
2008 Language, Reality, Emptiness and Laughs. Presented at the 17th Annual Symposium of the Academie-du-Midi, Alet-les-Bains, France, May 12-16, 2008.
2008 Global Culture, Local Cultures and the Internet: Ten Years After. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication, Nimes, France, June 24 – 27, 2008.
2008 Nanotechnology and Asian Values. Presented at the International Conference on Science, Technology and Human Values in the Context of Asian Development, National University of Singapore, April 27 – 29, 2008.
2008 Privacy in Asia and Pacific. Presented at the 1st Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Ethical Dimensions of Information Society, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 12 – 14, 2008.
2007 Floridi and Spinoza on Global Information Ethics. Presented at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference, November 2 – 4 2007.
2006 Metaphysics of Change and Continuity: Exactly what is changing and what gets continued?. This paper was prepared for “Continuity + Change: Perspectives on Science and Religion,” June 3-7, 2006, in Philadelphia, PA, USA, a program of the Metanexus Institute
2006 The Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference, presentation at Stella Maris College, Chennai, India, Feb. 8-9, 2006.
2005 Capacity Building in Research Ethics: Experiences from Thailand, presentation at the International Conference on Research and Health Ethics, Jakarta, Indonesia, 28 November to 2 December 2005, organized by the WHO and the NIH and University of Bergen
2005 The ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project: Introduction, Best Practices and Lessons Learned. Presented at the AUNP Grant Holders' Meeting, University of the Philippines, Diliman, August 25-26, 2005.
2005 Transforming Universities: University-Industry Partnerships and Governance of Higher Education Institutions in the ASEAN region. Presented at the AUNP Roundtable Meeting on Regional Cooperation in a Globalizing World, UP Diliman, August 29-31, 2005.
2005 Bioethics and Interdisciplinarity. Presented at the First Bangkok Bioethics Roundtable, September 11-15, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand.
2005 The Digital Divide, Epistemology and Global Justice, presented at the Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (AP-CAP 2005), January 7-9, 2005, Novotel Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.
2004 The Asian Information Society and the Aims of Education, presented at the Ninth International Conference of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, Namseoul University, South Korea, August 19-20, 2004.
2003 Exploring the Philosophical Terrain of the Digital Divide. Presented at the Computing and Philosophy Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, October 31 to November 2, 2003.
2003 Is there Asian Bioethics?. Presented at the International Symposium - Dialogue and Promotion of Bioethics in Asia, Kyoto, September 20-14, 2003.
2003 Organ Transplantation: A Buddhist Perspective. Presented at the International Symposium - Dialogue and Promotion of Bioethics in Asia, Kyoto, September 20-14, 2003.
2003 Cultural Politics of the Global Digital Divide. Presented at the Third International Convention of Asia Scholars, ICAS3, Singapore, August 19-22, 2003.
2003 Bangfai Payanak: Science, Belief and Thai Society. Presented at an International Workshop on Thailand Today: New Perspectives and Approaches, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, February 18-19, 2003.
2002 Science, Technology and the Millennium Goals. Presented at an International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation: Emerging International Policy Issues, Harvard University, September 23-24, 2002. First draft of the paper is "Community-based Science and Third World Development".
2002 Buddhist Attitude toward Research Ethics. Presented at the International Workshop on Dialogue and Promotion of Bioethics in Asia, Manila Diamond Hotel, The Philippines, 14-16 October, 2002
2002 The Thai Situation in Bioethics. Presented at the International Workshop on Dialogue and Promotion of Bioethics in Asia, Manila Diamond Hotel, The Philippines, 14-16 October, 2002
2002 The Internet, Globalization and Local Cultures. Presented at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 7, 2002.
2002 The Internet, Globalization and Local Cultures. Presented at the European Generation of the European Academy of Arts and Science, Kuenstlerhaus, Lenbachplatz, Munich, Germany, June 6, 2002.
2002 Toward A Buddhist Contribution to the Problem of Clash of Cultures: Religions and Globalization in Thailand. Presented at the International Colloquium on "Creative Peace through Encounter of World Cultures", Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany, May 4, 2002.
2002 Human Cloning in a Thai Novel: Wimon Sainimnuan's Amata and the Thai Cultural Attitude toward Biotechnology. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Asian Genomics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, March 28-29, 2002.
2002 Technology, Science, Design and Control. Paper presented at an international conference on Living with the Genie: Governing Scientific and Technological Transformations of the World in the 21st Century. Columbia University, March 5-7, 2002 (See http://www.livingwiththegenie.org/ ).
2001 Time, Nature, Technology and Globalization. Paper presented at the 12th Biannual Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 9-11, 2001.
2001 Cultures and Global Justice. Paper presented at the International Conference on Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, on May 9-11, 2001.
2001 Growing Science from Indigenous Source: Science, Globalization and Cultural Identity. Paper presented at the International Conference on Knowledge and East-West Transitions, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, December 11-14, 2000.
2001 Science War in Thailand: Clashes Between Traditional and Modernized Belief Systems in the Thai Media. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, "Worlds in Transition: Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture in the 21st Century", University of Vienna, Austria, September 27-30, 2000.
2000 Global Network, Local Cultures and Cognitive Evaluation. Paper to be presented at the Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference, CAP 2000, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 10 -12 August 2000.
2000 Negotiating the Global and the Local: Some Philosophical Reflections on the Role of the Internet in Local Cultures. Paper Presented at the Eighth East-West Philosophers' Conference, Univerisity of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 9-21, 2000.
1999 Politeness in Thai Computer-mediated Communication. Paper Presented at the First International Symposium on Linguistic Politeness, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, December 7-9, 1999.
1999 Science, Civil Society, and the Preservation of Culture. Paper Presented at the Seventh International Conference on Thai Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 5-9, 1999.
1998 Global Culture, Local Cultures, and the Internet: the Thai Example. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communication. In Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks eds., Proceedings of the First International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communication, Science Museum, London, 1-3 August 1998: 187-201.
1998 Asian Philosophy and Critical Thinking: Divergence or Convergence? Paper presented at the Third APPEND Seminar on Philosophy Education for the Next Millennium, May 6-8 1998, Chulalongkorn University.
1997 Knowledge, Community and Culture: A Preliminary Study of the Epistemological Status of Thai Belief System. Research Conference in Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Chulalongkorn University. October 1997.
1997 Is there Thai Philosophy? Keynote Address at the Philosophical and Religious Club of Thailand, October 10, 1997.
1996 Descartes, Rorty and the Future of Philosophy. Annual Meeting of the Philosophical and Religious Club of Thailand, October 25, 1996.
1996 Critical Thinking and Teaching Philosophy. Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Prince of Songkhla University, Pattani Campus, August 22-23, 1996.
1996 How is Thai Philosophy Possible? Paper Presented at the Sixth International Thai Studies Conference, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, October 14-17, 1996. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies Theme VII Toward a New Frontier of Thai Studies. (Chiang Mai, Thailand, 14-17 October 1996): 43-52.
1995 Democracy and Culture: A Case for Thailand. Paper presented at the Seventh East-West Philosophers' Conference, January 9-23 1995, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
1995 Humanistic Education in Today's and Tomorrow’s World. Paper presented at The First Srinakharinwirot University Round Table on the Humanities Agenda, The Humanities in a Braver and Newer World: Future Mission and New Vision, July 17-19, 1995. Mercure Hotel Bangkok.
1993 Sustainable Development and the Mission of the University. Paper presented at ASAIHL Seminar on Sustainable Development Challenges for the Asia-Pacific Region in the 21st Century, July 6-8 1993, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia, 1993.
1992 Historical Contingency of the Fact and Value Distinction. Conference on the Humanities: Present Borders and Paths to the Future, Thammasat University, December 1-3 1992 (in Thai).