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Conference Announcement Theme: Analogies, Models and Images in Early Chinese and Graeco-Roman Ethics Type: Symposium Institution: Institute of Philosophy, University of Berne Location: Berne (Switzerland) Date: 12.–15.12.2014 __________________________________________________ Friday, December 12, 2014, 18:15 Room HS 220, University of Berne Hochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Berne Jeremy Tanner, Archaeology, University College London The Ethics and the Aesthetics of Tyrannicide in Classical Athens and Early Imperial China Saturday, December 13, 2014 Room F-121, University of Berne Lerchenweg 36, CH-3012 Berne 09:00 Lisa Raphals, Chinese and Comparative Literature, UC Riverside Which Self Image? 10:45 Yu Jiyuan, Philosophy, Buffalo Linking Man with Nature: Analogies, Models and Images in Stoic and Daoist Moral Naturalism 13:15 Jenny Jingyi Zhao, Classics, Cambridge, Models of Behaviour: Xunzi and Aristotle on the Politics of Moral Education 15:00 David Machek, Philosophy, Toronto, The Craft of Living According to Zhuangzi and Stoicism 16:45 Yumi Suzuki, Philosophy, Hong Kong, Mohist Fa and Platonic Ideas Sunday, December 14, 2014, Room F-121, University of Berne, Lerchenweg 36, CH-3012 Berne 09:00 Ralph Weber, Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, On Vagueness in Inquiry: The Cases of Analogy and Comparison and the Example of Early Chinese and Graeco-Roman Ethics 10:45 Wolfgang Behr, Sinology, Zurich, The Lexicon and Syntax of Equative/Similative Constructions in Early Chinese in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Typology, Etymology, and the Morphology of Ideas 13:15 Christopher Cullen, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge Changing Heaven and Earth: Observation, Calculation and Ideology in Early Imperial China. 15:00 Rafael Suter, Sinology, Zurich, Meaning and Structure: Argumentation in the Chunqiu Fanlu 16:45 Winnie Sung, Philosophy, NTU Singapore, Images in Jiebipian of the Xunzi 18:30 Mary Louise Gill, Philosophy, Brown University, Models in Plato's Statesman Monday, December 15, 2014, Room 205, University of Berne Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Berne 09:00 William Charlton, emeritus, Philosophy, Edinburgh, Some Uses of Analogy in Classical Greek Philosophy 10:45 Magdalena Hoffmann, Philosophy, Berne, Figures of Excellence. A Comparative Analysis of Plato's Philosopher Kings, Aristotle's Phronimos and the Stoic Sage 13:15 Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, FBA, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge Analogies, Images and Models in Ethics: Some First-Order and Second- Order Observations on Their Use in Ancient Greece and China 14:45 End of the symposium Discussants: Sarah Broadie, St Andrews; Karine Chemla CNRS; Gavin Lawrence, UCLA; Michael Lackner, Erlangen; Arnd Kerkhecker, Berne; Richard King, Berne; Georgia Tsouni, Berne; Oliver Weingarten, Prague Space is limited. Those interested in attending should register by contacting the convenor Prof. Richard King ([email protected]). __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
