Series
Shaw Foundation Lecture
Humanitarian Intervention as Responsibility: A Confucian Perspective on War and Peace
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Open To
SMU Community
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Synopsis
The figure above demonstrates the Müller-Lyer illusion, where equal-length lines appear different due to cognitive processing, illustrating how perceptions can mislead us – a key concept in Behavioural Economics. This field explores how psychological attributes affect economic decisions. Our lecture will first examine examples of how these attributes lead to seemingly irrational decisions. Then we will discuss leveraging an understanding of behavioural biases to subtly influence decision-making contexts, nudging individuals towards more desirable choices.
Speaker
Speaker Details
Sungmoon Kim
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Sungmoon Kim is professor of political theory in the Department of Public Policy at the City University of Hong Kong where he also serves as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Kim received his PhD in political science from the University of Maryland at College Park and taught previously at the University of Richmond (USA) and Yonsei University (South Korea). As 2017-18 Berggruen Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center Ethics, Kim published four solo-authored books including Democracy after Virtue: Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy (Oxford UP 2018) and Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi (Cambridge UP 2020), along with numerous articles and book chapters on Confucian democratic and constitutional theory, comparative political theory, and the history of East Asian political thought. Kim’s new book entitled Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy will be published by Oxford University Press. |
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