APPA Annual Meeting, online via zoom
Saturday June 27, 2026, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST
9:00-9:15 a.m. Lou Marinoff (USA): Welcome
9:15-10:00 a.m. Ang Li (China) [Chaired by Lou Marinoff]
The Seven Virtues of the North Star: A Virtue-Based Ethical Framework for Philosophical Practice Grounded in the Liangzhi Tradition
10:00-10:45 a.m. Goutham AV (India) [Chaired by Lou Marinoff]
What Exactly Are We Training Students to Become? Rebuilding an Undergraduate Course in Philosophical Practice
10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:00-11:45 a.m. Tatiana Zdyb (Canada) [Chaired by Vaughana Feary]
Self-Esteem and the Philosophical Life: From Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Shame to Kantian Duty, Stoic Governance, and Existential Authorship
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Carolina Beaini (Canada) [Chaired by Vaughana Feary]
Cultivating Philosophical Intelligence: The PHICLARITY Method for Applied Philosophical Practice
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30-2:15 p.m. Ross Reed (USA) (Chaired by Rick Repetti)
Existential Philosophical Counseling, Part II: Therapeutic Hermeneutics and the Medical Pathologization of Existential Suffering
2:15-3:00 p.m. Susan Castro (USA) (Chaired by Rick Repetti)
Philosophical Counseling and Value Sensitive Design: first person plural, impure a priori conceptual investigations
3:00-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 p.m. Shanti Jones & Andrew Fitz-Gibbon (USA) [Chaired by Lou Marinoff]
The Moral Third: Love, Virtue, and the Ethics of the Between
4:00-4:45 p.m. Wang Zhiyuan (China) [Chaired by Lou Marinoff]
Nine Essential Practices for a Life Free from Disturbance: A Philosophical Perspective
4:45-5:00 p.m. Close of program
