Supakwadee Amatayakul

Academic Positions

2016- Official Teaching Officer, Chair of Gender Theory, IULM University, Milan, Italy

2010-13 Deputy Director, Centre for Buddhist Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

1998-2013 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

2003-07 Special Professor, Women's Studies Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiangmai

University, Chiangmai, Thailand

2003-07 Special Professor, Woman and Youth Studies Program, Faculty of Social Sciences,

Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

2013-16 Visiting Professor, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National

Research Council, Rome, Italy

2015 Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

2014 Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

2012 Visiting Professor, The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation/University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Editorship

2010- Editor-in-Chief, The Chulalongkorn Journal of Buddhist Studies, Published by The Centre for Buddhist Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

2009 Guest Editor, Manusya: Journal of Humanities - An international journal in the humanities published by Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

2010- Editorial Board, Journal of Buddhist Studies, Published by the Centre for Buddhist Studies,

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

2008 Editorial Board, Manusya: Journal of Humanities, Published by Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

2003-08 Editorial Board, Faculty of Arts Journal, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Education

2003 Ph.D., Philosophy, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA

Dissertation: The History of Philosophy through a Feminist Magnifying Glass: Distortion or Clarification?

1997 M.A., Philosophy, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, USA

1993 B.A. (First Class Honors), Philosophy and English, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Research Projects and Grants

2017- Principal Investigator, "Gender Diversity in Contemporary Public Discourses: Philosophical

and Communicational Approaches", IULM University, Milan, Italy

2015 - Principal Investigator, "Descartes's Method", Thailand Research Fund, Bangkok, Thailand

2013-16 Visiting Professor, "Women's Studies in Asia", National Research Council, Italy

2011-12 Principal Investigator, "Knowledge and Virtue in Greek Ethics", Alexander S. Onassis Public

Benefit Foundation, Athens, Greece

2011-12 Principal Investigator, "Prohairesis: Things that are 'up to us' and the Happy Life in

Epictetus' Ethics", Thailand Research Fund, Bangkok, Thailand

2009-10 Principal Investigator, "Générosité: Controlling the Emotions and Overcoming Fate in

Descartes's Ethics", Thailand Research Fund, Bangkok, Thailand

2006-09 Principal Investigator, "Philosophy or Literature? Irony through Metaphor in Philosophical

Texts in Richard Rorty's Neo-Pragmatism", Thailand Research Fund, Bangkok, Thailand

2004-05 Principal Investigator, "Mind-Body-Emotion: Morality in Descartes's Philosophy", Thailand

Research Fund, Bangkok, Thailand

2003-04 Principal Investigator, "Philosophy and Its History: A Necessary Relation?", The Faculty of

Arts Research Grant, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Scholarly Appointments and Memberships

2015- Committee for Gender Issues, International Federation for Philosophical Societies (FISP)

2012- Member, The International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD)

2007- Member, The Asian Association of Women's Studies (AAWS), Ewha Womans University,

Seoul, Korea

2006- Member, The Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand (PARST)

Main areas of scientific interest

Gender Theories, Feminist Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Greek Philosophy

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In English

(2018 forthcoming) A Global Reader in Feminist Philosophy. Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press (In

English and Chinese)

(2014) “Women in Science: Some Observations”, in S. Avveduto and L. Pisacane, eds. Portrait of a Lady –

Women in Science: Issues and Perspectives in a Globalized Research System. Rome: Gangemi.

(2013) “Introduction”, in S. Amatayakul, ed. The Emergence and Heritage of Asian Women Intellectuals.

Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, pp.ix-xi.

(2013) Amatayakul, S., ed. The Emergence and Heritage of Asian Women Intellectuals. Bangkok:

Chulalongkorn University Press.

(2013) “Overcoming Emotions, Conquering Fate: Reflections on Descartes’s Ethics”, Diogenes 60/1

(2013): 78-85.

(2006) “Severing Body from the Mind: The Cartesian Model Revisited”. The Asian Review 19 (2006), 155-

169. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.

(2004) “The Postmodern Trend in Feminist Philosophical Writings”, Creating Women’s Knowledge in Asia

            Conference Proceeding. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press.

(1999) “Reinterpreting the ‘Body’ in The Second Sex”, Manusya: Journal of Humanities 3 (March 1999):

1-12. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.

In Thai

(2017) “Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: Philosophical Exchanges in Friendship”, in As

Carved and Polished: Essays in Honor of 60 Years of Professor Suwanna Satha-Anand. Bangkok:

Sommadhi Publications.

(2016) “Prohairesis: Things that are ‘up to us’ and the Happy Life in Epictetus’ Ethics”, in S. Satha-Anand,

ed. Mapping Ethics. Bangkok: Vibhasa Publications.

(2010) “J.S Mill’s Radical Feminism in The Subjection of Women”. Faculty of Arts Journal 39:1 (January-

June 2010), 74-90. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.

(2008) Ethics: Theories and Applications. Faculty of Arts Textbooks Projects. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn

University Press.

(2007) Amatayakul, S., Chotudompan, S., Pakdeepasuk, S., Panphothong, N., Pradittassanee, D. “H. M.

King Bhumibhol’s Royal Birthday Speeches: Textual and Linguistic Analyses”, in His Majesty King

Bhumibhol of Thailand and the Humanities. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.

(2005) “Descartes’s Meditations and the Masculinization of Thought”, Journal of Liberal Arts 8:2 (July-

December 2005), 18-33. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press.

(2003) “Plato and the Female Nature”, Faculty of Arts Journal 32:1 (January-June 2003), 36-49.

Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.

In French

(2012) "Surmonter ses émotions, conquérir son destin : réflexions sur l’éthique de Descartes", Diogène

237 (Jan 2012), 109-120.

In Chinese

(2014) “克服情感,征服命运:对于笛卡尔伦理学的反思”, 第欧根尼, 59/1 (2014): 126-138.

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