Below is the audio recording of Kwong-loi Shun’s presidential address, “On the Idea of ‘No Self’,” given at the 2018 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“On the Idea of ‘No Self’,” by Kwong-loi Shun
Kwong-loi Shun is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a B. Phil. at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. at Stanford University. Shun specializes in Chinese philosophy and moral psychology, and his current research is a five-volume work on Confucian thought. The work starts with philological studies of early and later Confucian thought, then discusses methodological issues in transitioning from philological to philosophical studies, and then concludes with a philosophical study of Confucian moral psychology. He has also taught at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, New Asia College in Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He served as president of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2017–2018.
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
