2025 PHI PRO

1. Oidinposha Pulatovna Imamkhodjaeva, Assistant Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
   Title: The Garden in the Boardroom: Exploring Epicurean Ethics for Sustainable Business Practices.
2. Johan Buitendag, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
   Title: Fifty Years of Growing Concern about the Resilience of Planet Earth: A Call for Degrowth, Rewilding, and a New Ethic to Restore Earth’s Biodiversity.
3. Michael Buckley, Associate Professor, City University of New York, Lehman College, USA.
   Title: Constructing Global Norms: Lessons from the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

1. Tennyson Samraj, Professor, Burman University, Canada.
   Title: Delineating Consciousness and Freedom as an Ontological Entanglement and Existential Phenomenon: Implication to Life and Liberties.
2. Stuart Dalton, Professor, Western Connecticut State University, USA.
   Title: The Apophatic Argument in Kierkegaard’s Repetition.
3. Zoltan Gyenge, Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary.
   Title: The Emergence of the Modern Concept of Existence-Schelling / Kierkegaard.

1. Edwin Gantt, Professor, Brigham Young University, USA.
   Samuel Major, Adjunct Professor, Utah Valley University, USA.
   Title: The Consequence of a Category Mistake: Merleau-Ponty, Embodied Agency, and The Explanatory Failure of Psychology’s Newtonian Project.
2. Malcolm Murray, Professor, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
   Title: Glaucon Meets Darwin.
3. Maya Subrahmanian, Associate Professor, North-Eastern Hill University Meghalaya, India.
   Title: Making the History of Philosophy: A Feminist Critical Analysis.

1. Jinmei Yuan, Professor, Creighton University, USA.
   Title: Could Set-Thinking Help AI? Exploring the Gaps between Probability and Certainty from the Perspective of Chinese Logic.
2. Marilu Rojas Salazar, Professor, La Salle University, Mexico.
   Title: Decolonial and Clandestine Eroecojustice from Bio-Zoe-Geo-Techno Mediated Bodies: A Queer/Cuir Ecofeminist Theological Look.
3. Rafal Szopa, Assistant Professor, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.
   Title: Pancomputationalism and the Non-Computational Nature of Consciousness.

1. Robert Bishop, Professor, Wheaton Collete, USA.
   Title: Laws of Human Behavior? The Problem of the One and Many.
2. Bo Chen, Professor, Wuhan University, China.
   Title: Why Do We “Must” and “Should”? To Bridge the Gap from “Is” to “Ought”.
3. Maricel Mena Lopez, Professor and Researcher, Saint Thomas University, Colombia.
   Title: Imperial Cult vs Afro-Asian and Afro-Diasporic Ancestral Cult: An Intertextual Reading of Jezebel in the Bible and in Popular Afro-Catholicism. “I have against you that you tolerate that woman, the prophetess Jezebel” (Rev. 2:20).

1. Quanhua Liu, Professor, Gonzaga University, USA.
   Title: The Roots of the Disagreement between Glaucon and Socrates on the Nature of Justice in the Republic.
2. Denita Chungkham, Research Scholar, North Eastern Hill University Shillong (NEHU), India.
   Title: The Meitei Mythic Facet as an Epistemic Entity.
3. Montse Sobral, PhD Candidate, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain.
   Title: Beyond Causality: Our Aesthetic Experiences as Complex Systems.

1. Derrick Lemons, Professor and Department Head, University of Georgia, USA.
   Title: Between Relativism and Reproach: Making Value Judgements about Human Flourishing within Theologically Engaged Anthropology.
2. Alexandre Maia, Professor, Law School, University of Vitória, Brazil.
   Daury César Fabriz, Professor, Law School, University of Vitória, Brazil.
   Title: The Anti-Asylum Movement and Fundamental Rights in Brazil: Legal and Philosophical Aspects.

1. Roderick Long, Professor, Auburn University, USA.
   Title: Everyone Who Goes to India Becomes Rich”: Hindu Epistemology Meets Jewish Theology in Saadya Gaon’s Book of Beliefs and Opinions.
2. Sujata Kar, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.
   Title: Dharma, The Science of Being and Becoming.
3. Kalman Kelemen, PhD Candidate, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
   Title: Ethical Teachings of Vedic Rooted Management Concepts in Anthropocene-Rajarshi & Vedic Leadership.

1. Ryo Tashiro, Adjunct Lecturer, Gakushuin University, Japan.
   Title: The Relationship between Philosophers and Democracy in Plato’s Republic.
2. Cornelius Nevradakis, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist/Psychiatrist in Private Practice, Former Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield Medical School, UK.
   Title: The Philosophers’ Party in Bonneval 1946. What Can We Make of It in Athens 2025?
3. Dandan Zhang, PhD Candidate, Zhejiang University, China.
   Title: The Triple Interpretation of German Historicism and its Theoretical Contribution to Historical Materialism.

1. Vlayudhan Babu Chankarankumarath, Professor, University of Delhi, India.
   Anshuman Patra, Research Scholar, University of Delhi, India.
   Title: Heidegger and AI: Reinterpreting Technology in the Digital Age.
2. Eric B. Litwack, Affiliated Faculty, Syracuse University London & Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK.
   Title: The World in Chains Scenario: Future AI, Robots, and Totalitarianism.
3. Wasim Sifo, Assistant Professor, Al-Hawash Private University, Syria.
   Title: Systems Theory towards a New Interpretive Paradigm: From the Concept of Component to the Concept of Action.

Moderator: Gregory T. Papanikos, President, Athens Institute.

1. Mark Migotti, Professor, University of Calgary, Canada.
   Title: Fallibilism Then and Now.
2. Soren Gosvig Olesen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
   Title: On Kripke, on Tradition, and on Deconstruction of the Tradition.
3. Emese Mogyorodi, Associate Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary.
   Title: The Androgynous Philosophy of Socrates.

1. Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca, Faculty Member, European University Cyprus, Cyprus.
   Title: Psychology vs. Theology: Friends or Foes?
2. Steven S. Gouveia, Research Fellow, MLAG, Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto, Portugal.
   Title: Medical AI and Trust: An Abductive Proposal.
3. Eduard Davila, PhD Student, University of Valladolid, Spain.
   Title: Exploring Typicality Through the Reference Class of Observers in Cosmology.

1. Ori Z Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
   Title: The Linguistics and Theology of Defining, Understanding, Misunderstanding, Liking and Disliking Jews and Judaism.
2. Peter Vranas, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
   Title: When is a Set of Rules Inconsistent?
3. Nadja Furlan Stante, Full Professor, ZRS Koper (Science and Research Centre Koper), Slovenia.
   Title: Emotions in the Judeo-Christian Tradition.

1. Hala Arar, Assistant Professor, Al Hussein Technical University, Jordan.
   Title: The Morality of Machines: AI and Foucault’s Concept of Decentralized Power.
2. Robert O’Connor, Associate Professor, Texas State University, USA.
   Title: The Texas Heartbeat Act: An Historical Comparison, Its Implications, and Moral Objections.
3. Marta Nagy, Associate Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary.
   Title: Freedom of Artistic Expression in Philosophical Discourse.

1. Jennifer Ellen Good, Associate Professor, Brock University, Canada.
   Title: Eco-Spirituality and the Climate Crisis: A “Re-Turning” from the Precipice.
2. Annalie Steenkamp-Nel, Research Fellow, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
   Title: Trails and Transformations of African Spirituality Research Methodologies.
3. Hyung Jin An, PhD Candidate, University of Delhi, India.
   Title: Daimonion and Tathāgatagarbha: The Nature of the Human Consciences as Understood Through Eastern and Western Tradition.

1. Claudia Simone Dorchain, Postgraduate Researcher, ILS Institute for Learning Systems, Germany.
   Title: Heterotopia, Ritual, Egregor – Mass Manipulation by Rooms of Normativity.
2. Anshuman Patra, Research Scholar, University of Delhi, India.
   Title: Abstract or Contextual: Decoding the Nature of Numbers.
3. Maria Rosaria D’Acierno Canonici Cammino, Associate Professor, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy.
   Title: The Idea of Time in Art: Life and Death.

1. Xavier Pavie, Professor, ESSEC Business School, France.
   Title: Facing Heideggerian Being-Towards-Death: Why Choose Sobriety?
2. Mikko Arevuo, Senior Lecturer, Cranfield School of Management, UK.
   Title: Sympathy in the Political Economy of David Hume and Adam Smith.
3. Abduljaleel Kadhim Alwali, Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UAE.
   Title: Ethics in Humanities and Social Sciences.
4. James Downey, Associate Professor, Hollins University, USA.
   Title: We Are Souls.