Seisuke Hayakawa joins Kyoto University as an Associate Professor of Ethics in October 2025. His recent research focuses on how the act of listening can promote agency, freedom, and relational autonomy. He has published widely in Japanese and English on topics in the philosophy of action, care ethics, clinical ethics, and virtue epistemology, and is currently working on a book entitled Receptivity and Human Agency.
Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and former Tanner lecturer at Stanford and Feng Qi lecturer at East China Normal University, he is the author of many books and articles on ethics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and moral education. His published works include The Ethics of Care and Empathy (2007), Moral Sentimentalism (2010), The Philosophy of Yin and Yang (2018), and Philosophical Essays East and West (2023, Palgrave Macmillan).