BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s\, East Asia Program presents \;Dan iel J. Stephens from \;University at Buffalo.Partly to support critici sms of the attention economy\, philosophers have recently begun to develop general frameworks for the ethics of attention. In this talk\, Daniel Ste phens makes the case that early Confucian ethics can make an important con tribution to these frameworks. Because the normative assessment of people’ s attention allocations is informed by the attentional demands inherent to their ethical lives\, and because the finite nature of human attention pl aces limits on people’s ability to meet those demands\, Stephens argues th at an ethics of attention should explain how people ought to collectively meet those demands. This means both that an ethics of attention should pro vide realistic\, collective expectations for how people allocate their att ention in attempting to meet those demands\, and that it should provide co llective practices that synergize these attempts. Stephens calls such a se t of collective practices a “social-attentional scheme” and proposes that one goal of an ethics of attention should be to develop effective social-a ttentional schemes. He concludes by discussing a social-attentional scheme developed within early Confucian thought\, proposing ways that this examp le can help develop a contemporary ethics of attention.Daniel \;Stephe ns \;is assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at the Univer sity at Buffalo. Before joining the department at Buffalo\, he was assista nt professor of philosophy at Duke Kunshan University. His research focuse s on ethical theory\, political philosophy\, epistemology\, and issues in ethics\, politics and the philosophy of language in pre-Han Chinese though t. His work has appeared in \;Philosophers’ Imprint\, The British Jour nal for the History of Philosophy\, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosop hy\, Philosophy East and West\, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy\, \; and \;Politics\, Philosophy\, and Economics. DTEND:20261008T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260922T024408Z DTSTART:20261008T163000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Confucian Contribution to the Ethics of Attention UID:RFCALITEM639256274483135776 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute’s\, East Asia Progra m presents \;Daniel J. Stephens from \;University at Buffalo.

Partly to support criticisms of the attention econom y\, philosophers have recently begun to develop general frameworks for the ethics of attention. In this talk\, Daniel Stephens makes the case that e arly Confucian ethics can make an important contribution to these framewor ks.

Because the normative assessment of people’s attention allocati ons is informed by the attentional demands inherent to their ethical lives \, and because the finite nature of human attention places limits on peopl e’s ability to meet those demands\, Stephens argues that an ethics of atte ntion should explain how people ought to collectively meet those demands. This means both that an ethics of attention should provide realistic\, col lective expectations for how people allocate their attention in attempting to meet those demands\, and that it should provide collective practices t hat synergize these attempts.

Stephens calls such a set of collecti ve practices a “social-attentional scheme” and proposes that one goal of a n ethics of attention should be to develop effective social-attentional sc hemes. He concludes by discussing a social-attentional scheme developed wi thin early Confucian thought\, proposing ways that this example can help d evelop a contemporary ethics of attention.

Daniel \;Step hens \;is assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at the University at Buffalo. Before joining the department at Buffalo\, he was assistant professor of philosophy at Duke Kunshan University. His rese arch focuses on ethical theory\, political philosophy\, epistemology\, and issues in ethics\, politics and the philosophy of language in pre-Han Chi nese thought. His work has appeared in \;Philosophers’ Imprint\, T he British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, Dao: A Journal of Compa rative Philosophy\, Philosophy East and West\, The Journal of Chinese Phil osophy\, \;and \;Politics\, Philosophy\, and Economics.

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