Soraj Hongladarom is Director of the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology and an associate professor of philosophy at Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. His research interests include epistemology, philosophy of language, logic, as well as problems arising from the relationship between philosophy and literature. His major concern at the moment is on the problems arising from the interplay between modern science and Thai culture.
He can be reached at:
The Eighth Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC2007), March 19-23, 2007, Chulalongkorn University.
The Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (AP-CAP 2005)
International
Conference on
Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002)
Research Project on Science in Thai Culture
(This website is mostly in Thai, but contains some English research articles.)
You can download the entire book on Science in Thai Culture and Society right here.
(Unfortunately, the book is in Thai, though I am planning to write an English version of it quite soon.)
(The following material is no longer updated. Please look at my resume instead.)
Philosophy
of Language Right now there's only a syllabus, but more material
will come....
Cultural Issues Pertaining to
the Use of the Internet in Teaching and Learning in Thailand (195K)
This is a PowerPoint file. To read it you need a copy of PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer.
New Law Needs to Position
Chula as the Public's University
Here is a piece I wrote as a comment on the drafting of the new charter for Chulalongkorn University.
Public Understanding of Science
This piece (in Thai) recently appeared in Research Community, a newsletter published by the Thailand Research Fund.
Review of William J. Klausner's
Thai Culture in Transition
Global Culture, Local
Cultures and the Internet: The Thai Example
This paper was presented at the First International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Toward Communication and Technology (CATaC 98), Science Museum, London.
This paper examines Stevens' poetry and with an eye toward the age old philosophical problem of realism.
On the Internet and Cultural
Differences
This paper was published in the APA Computers and Philosophy Newsletter, Spring 1998, edited by Jon Dorbolo. (This is a PDF file. To view it you need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
Asian Philosophy and Critical
Thinking: Divergence or Convergence? (35K)
This paper was presented at the Second APPEND Conference at Chulalongkorn University, May 6-8, 1998. It will be published in an annual publication of APPEND, edited by Philip Cam and Mark Tamthai.
This file has been awarded with the "StudyWeb© Academic Excellence Award" by StudyWeb.com.
Critical Thinking and the Realism/Anti-realism
Debate (38K)
This paper looks at the problem arising when philosophical issues are introduced into the practical nature of teaching critical thinking.
Categories and Logical Forms
in Kant's Metaphysical Deduction (42K)
This paper was written back in 1991, as an offshoot from his Ph.D. dissertation on Kant's theory of imagination.
Sustainable Development
and the Mission of the University (45K)
This is the paper written for an Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning conference in July 1994.
Postmodernism in Thai Poetry:
Saksiri Meesomsueb's Tukta Roi Sai (42K)
This paper was published in Asian Review 1993.
Democracy and Culture: A Case
for Thailand (48K)
This is a paper presented at the Sixth East West Philosophers' Conference at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in January 1995.
Humanistic Education in
Today's and Tomorrow's World (41K)
This paper was read at a symposium on the humanities agenda for the next century organized by Sri Nakarinwirote University at Prasarnmit in July 1995.
How Is Thai Philosophy Possible?
(26K)
This paper was presented at the Sixth International Conference on Thai Studies in October, 1996.
Buddhism and Human Rights in the Thoughts of Sulak
Sivaraksa and Phra Dhammapidok (Prayudh Prayutto)
This paper was presented at the Online Conference on Buddhism and Human Rights in 1995 organized by the Journal of Buddhist Ethics. It eventually became part of the book, Buddhism and Human Rights, edited by Damien Keown and Wayne Prebish and published by Curzon Press.
Last updated on September 27, 2007
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