09:30-10:45 | Room 708 Saturday Onsite Presentation Session 1

Philosophy in Arts, Culture & Technology

Session Chair: Michael Michael

09:30-09:55

67513 | The Potential for Regional Opposition to Progressive ‘Universal’ Understandings of AI Acceptance

Haruka Yoshioka, Uppsala University, Sweden

The use of AI in public administration has become an important topic with each passing year. Indeed, a so-called 'universal' understanding of AI and its acceptance is being established at the international level, with UNESCO and the European Union presenting concrete recommendations and legislation for AI regulation in order to avoid ethical and practical concerns. However, as in other areas of international public administration, differences in national, religious, philosophical and traditional perspectives may lead to different views from the West on understanding and acceptance. This study examines psychological resistance to AI acceptance by literature review, with a focus on the delay in data utilisation in Japanese public administration and the scepticism of the Japanese public regarding the provision of privacy data to administrative bodies that underlies this delay. Specifically, the paper first reviews Japanese and global trends in AI administration, the content and progress of Japan's My Number system, the Japanese common number system which is essential for digital administration, and public reaction to it. It then confirms the existence and origins of Japan's unique public sentiment on privacy by the ethical and cross-cultural previous studies, and interprets the impact to the My Number system on public understanding from the angle of the self-construal, a theory of cross-cultural psychology. Finally, it concludes by identifying the extent to which these perspectives are present in current Japanese and global debates and legal norms. It aims to cast a new perspective on understanding the acceptance of AI to citizens on a global scale.

09:55-10:20

67941 | Between Consciousness and Unconsciousness: The Cut-and-Paste Ceramics Works of Master Chen San-huo

Min-Chia Young, Shu-Te University, Taiwan

Master Chen San-huo is a fourth generation of the Chinese popular arts, cut-and-paste ceramics of the Quan School. His works has been widely adopted throughout major temples in Taiwan. In 2020, the Ministry of Culture recognized Chen as a preserver of an important cultural heritage, that is, the cut-and-paste craft, and named him a National Living Treasure. This article explores and examines the creative works of Master Chen. It focuses on the process of how Chen perceives, constructs and maintains his unique style of art works, a process of what he claims to be in a conscious state encoded by unconscious mind. Through textual and field work enquiry, the article aims to demonstrate that the vibrant forms and materials of the Chinese cut-and-paste ceramics was originated from koji pottery works, depicting themes from legendary or historical stories for the general public to tell. It was later changed and transformed into different formations to accommodate the needs of the gradual changing society. That is to say, popular arts is sensitive, yet resilient, which could be easily adjusted, manipulated to meet any social needs.

10:20-10:45

67665 | Redefining the Body: People with Physical Disabilities in Transform! (2020) and Reunion with You (2021)

Xinyi Wang, Nagoya University, Japan

Disabled bodies are often constructed as negative images in films. This article argues that focusing on bodily performance and the body’s relations with other bodies in contemporary East Asian films offers alternative representations. This article identifies and explores how fluid relations among different bodies in films open up alternatives to ableist depictions of physical disabilities by textual analysis and field research. Starting with how people with physical disabilities have been represented in East Asia, a filmography has been made to provide data about film history and social contexts by collecting primary and secondary sources in film archives and online libraries, such as Korean Film Archive and National Film Archive of Japan. The field research has been conducted in Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021, Osaka Performing Arts Open College 2021 in International Communication Center for People with Disability and dance courses in NPO DANCE BOX (Kobe), including interviews with two dancers with disabilities and the director Ishita Tomoya with informed consent. From the perspective of cinema studies, I analyze how bodies resist an ableist perspective on disability in Transform! (dir. Ishita Tomoya, 2020) and Reunion with You (Yu Ni Chongfeng, dir. Liu Xiaojing, 2021). Transform! highlights the fluid relations of the bodies through film aesthetics, dance performances, and the filmmaking process, whereas Reunion with You rejects female disabled bodies as spectacles and emphasizes how women with physical disabilities use media platforms to express themselves.

10:45-11:10

68802 | Re-evaluating the Socratic Project: An Anti-Intellectualist Account of “Socratic Intellectualism”

Michael Michael, Yonsei University, South Korea

Socrates has long faced the criticism of being intellectualist – of focusing excessively on the intellectual side of human conduct without adequately considering the emotional side. In this paper, I offer a different perspective on this issue. Focusing on the Protagoras, and drawing on contemporary philosophical work on the emotions, I propose an interpretation of Socratic knowledge that conceives of knowledge and emotion as intimately connected. Through this, a sense of intellectualism emerges in which it is not Socrates who is guilty of intellectualism, but us. Indeed, under this sense, Socrates is anti-intellectualist. More importantly, this perspective leads to an re-evaluation of the Socratic project, with implications for the cultural role of philosophy today.

11:25-12:40

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