Program 

Day 1: Friday, 16 October

• 9:30 Door opens

• 9:50-10:00 Opening remarks (Katsunori Miyahara)

• 10:00-12:00 Thematic session (1) "Attributing Minds to AI" (Chair: Chuang Liu)

  • Cappelen "AI Systems Can Have Emotions: A Conceptual-Engineering Argument"

  • Tony Cheng "Animals, AIs, and Awareness: A Project Introduced"

  • Zhang & Jiang: "Functional Concepts and Social Roles: repositioning virtue ethics in human-AI relationships" 

• 12:00-13:30 Lunch break [Program Committee 12:15-13:15]

• 13:30-15:30 Thematic session (2) "Bodies, Brains and AI" (Chair: Qiaoying Lu)

  • Rzepka "Mutual Shaping Needs a Third Term: Embodiment, Narrativity, and Inheritance in Artificial Selves"

  • Farina "6G and Embodied AI: Benefits and Risks of Increasingly Digitalized Ecosystems"

  • Ke "Emotional Responsibility in Affective Modulation Technologies"

• 15:30-16:00 Coffee break

• 16:00-17:30 Keynote lecture: Jun Otsuka (ZEN University)

• 18:30-20:30 Conference dinner (speakers, organizers, & committee members only)

Day 2: Saturday, 17 October

• 10:00 Door opens

• 10:30-12:30 Thematic session (3) "AI through Buddhist, Daoist and Kyoto School Philosophy" (Chair: Hayate Shimizu)

  • Mortimer "Co-reference between Humans and Language Models: A Buddhist Account"

  • Stone "The Redefinition of Interiority and Exteriority as a Problem for the Ethics of AI: Some Kyoto School Inspired Thoughts"

  • Zappulli "LLMs and the Tangling of the Mind"

• 12:30-14:00 Lunch break

• 14:00-16:30 Thematic session (4) "LLMs, Knowledge and Inquiry" (Chair: Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen)

  • Lin "Tracking the Perspectives of AI: Perspectival Gaps and Epistemic Harm"

  • Kong "'But It Looks Safe!': How Human Alignment Entrenches LLM Microaggressions"

  • Erler "From Homogenization to Thought Usurpation: Rethinking the Risks of LLM Use in Academic Research"

  • Miyazono "Philosophical Thought Experiments and Artificial Intelligence"

• 16:30-17:00 Coffee break

• 17:00-18:30 Round table: "Metaphilosophy of AI: Central questions and methodologies" (Chair: Yiwen Zhan)

  • Panelists: Sebastian Sunday Grève (Peking), Zhang Minjun (Fudan), Wouter Cohen (Peking), Rachel Sterken (HKU, zoom)

• 18:30-18:40 Closing remarks (Katsunori Miyahara)

Session structure

Below is a provisional plan for the session structures. They will be finalized together with the schedule.

Thematic sessions (120-150 mins)

Each of our four thematic sessions focuses on a specific core concept and is structured as follows to allow for both individual presentations and collective dialogue:

• Presentations (75-100 mins): Three invited speakers will deliver 20 minute presentations followed by a couple minutes for clarification questions.

• Break (5-10 mins): A short intermission to stretch and grab refreshments.

• Panel & Floor Discussion (40-50 mins): A combined session featuring a moderated panel discussion among the speakers, followed by an open Q&A with the audience.

Round table session "Metaphilosophy of AI: central questions and methodologies" (75 mins)

Our special roundtable session is designed as a dynamic, forward-looking forum focused on mapping out the future of the discipline:

• Lightning Talks (30 mins): Four speakers will deliver short, high-impact 5-minute opening remarks setting out their visions for the field.

• Floor Discussion (45 mins): An extended, interactive open-floor debate and panel discussion addressing central methodologies and future research agendas.