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Sophia Feiyan Gao

Sophia Feiyan Gao

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

Email:?feiyan.gao@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors:?Karyn Lai, Ann Pang-White, Timothy O'Leary?

Sophia Feiyan Gao is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New South Wales (ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø), Sydney, Australia, where her research is guided by philosophers Karyn Lai and Timothy O¡¯Leary. She earned her MPhil in Philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Sophia¡¯s current research is devoted to pre-Qin Confucian philosophy, feminist moral philosophy, and comparative philosophy. Her current project aims to establish a hybrid Mencian-Feminist model of care ethics, with special attention to relationality in care.

  • Chinese Philosophy
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Comparative Philosophy

Publications

  • Confucianism and Democracy: Four Models of Compatibility, Journal of Chinese Humanities, 6 (2020) 213-234, (with Aaron J. Walayat).
  • The Compatibility of Confucianism and Law, Pace Law Review, (2020) Vol. 41.1, 234-258, (with Aaron J. Walayat).

Conference Presentations/Seminars

  • "Dynamics of Power and Relational Agency in Care: A Hybrid Mencian-Feminist Model of Care" 2023 Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada.
  • "Mencian Ceyin Encountering Nel Noddings¡¯ Receptive Empathy: A Hybrid Model of Mencian-Feminist Care Ethics" 2022 North-East Conference on Chinese Thought, Yale University, Connecticut. US.
  • "Sympathy and Empathy in Care Practice: A Hybrid Model of Noddings' Feminist Care Ethics and Mencian Philosophy" 2022 APA Eastern Division Meeting, Maryland, US.
  • "Is Confu-China a Realistic Utopia?" 2018 World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • "A Sentimentalist Account of Moral Intuition" 2018 Summer Seminars on Moral Epistemology, Central Europe University, Budapest, Hungary.
  • "How to Promote Religious Conversation in Higher Education" 2016 Association of Christian Universities and Colleges, Bandung, Indonesia.
  • "Traditional Chinese Thoughts and Management" 2013 Traditional Chinese Thoughts and Management Speech Contest, Lingnan University, HK, China.

Works in Progress

  • "Renovating Feminism: Theorizing Confucian Feminism in Times of Political Transformation" (with Brooke Ackerly and Li Wei, "Öؽ¨Å®ÐÔÖ÷Áx£ºÈå¼ÒÅ®ÐÔÖ÷ÁxêPì¶ÕþÖÎ׃¸ïµÄÀíÕ“»¯˜‹½¨," in Chinese).

Work Experience?

  • 2018, Applied Ethics, Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong? ?
  • 2018, Bioethics, Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong?
  • 2016-2019, IELTS Writing Program, IELTS Writing Teacher, Papa Education Inc.? ? ??
  • 2015, Presentation Delivery Skills Workshop, Teaching Assistant, Yeungnam University (South Korea) English Camp