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Call for Papers Theme: Reality, Argumentation, and Persuasion Subtitle: Metaphysical Explorations and Epistemological Engagements in Chinese Philosophy Type: 21st International Conference on Chinese Philosophy Institution: International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) Institute of Philosophy, University of Berne Location: Berne (Switzerland) Date: 2.–5.7.2019 Deadline: 15.9.2018 __________________________________________________ Chinese philosophy has since its pre-Imperial beginnings been concerned with knowledge – witness Zhuangzi’s argument with Hui Shi about knowing about the happiness of the fish. Furthermore, as this famous story makes clear, there is argument about what people know and what they do not know. And there are things known, in this story, the happiness of the fish, more usually, the character of rulers, the rites, how to act, right and wrong, history, cosmology, the unifying principle of the world, medicine, and mathematics. Yet these aspects of the Chinese tradition have hardly received the attention they deserve from philosophers — questions of what can be known, what the concept of knowledge is taken to be, what role it plays within various conceptual frameworks, as well as the sceptical challenges made to knowledge, beginning, once again, with the Zhuangzi. Scepticism makes room for persuasion, and for clarifying what makes a sound argument, as opposed to mere persuasion. But there are also systematic collections of knowledge (mathematical, medical, cosmological, scientific, for example) which are prominent in the tradition, and they have close connections with philosophy proper. We invite proposals for papers and panels to deepen our understanding of these issues, and carry Chinese philosophy forward into the new millennium. Topics Reality: - Yin-yang, Five elements, and Yijing (and other similar systems) as systems of classification - Chinese ontology (you/wu—being/nonbeing) - Chinese idea of the Ultimate Reality: Dao, Li, Taiji, the relation between One and Many - Chinese cosmology - Philosophical anthropology—Man’s relation to Heaven/Nature - Chinese Philosophy of Mind—nature, mind, emotion, desire. Knowledge: - Theories of knowledge, perception and experience in Chinese philosophy - Epistemic reasoning and justification in Chinese philosophy - Theories of truth in Chinese philosophy - Concerns over scepticism - Knowledge and virtues - Knowledge, skills, and values - Moral knowledge - Early Encounters with Western Sciences: 16th-18th Centuries - Modernization and Westernization in the early 20th Century - Technology of the 21st Century: Chinese Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Argumentation and Persuasion: - Argument and knowledge - Analysis of particular arguments in philosophical texts from Pre-Qin to Contemporary - Persuasion and therapy - Persuasion and knowledge - Persuasion and power - Rhetoric – political, ethical, religious, legal, aesthetic - Of particular interest: Mohist Theories of argumentation, Theory of Names, Daoist methodology of debate, and specific argumentation in Buddhism Timeline Paper abstract/panel proposal (with all paper abstracts) due (500 words)—English or Chinese: September 15th, 2018 Final version of paper due: February 1st, 2019 Hotel registration deadline: March 15th, 2019 End of registration hello for conference: May 1st 2019 Send proposals to: [email protected] Invited Speakers Karine Chemla, SPHERE, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, France Anne Cheng, Collège de France, France Karyn Lai, School of Humanities & Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Austria Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, Scholar in Residence, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK Paul Unschuld, Institute for Chinese Life Sciences, Charité-Medical University, Berlin, Germany Yang Guorong, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University, China Jenny Zhao, Lloyd-Dan David Research Fellow, Needham Research Institute and Darwin College, Cambridge, UK Contact: Prof Dr Richard King Institute of Philosophy University of Berne Länggassstrasse 49a 3012 Bern Switzerland Email: [email protected] Web: http://iscp2019.philo.unibe.ch __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
