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Call for Papers
Theme: Reality, Argumentation, and Persuasion
Subtitle: Metaphysical Explorations and Epistemological Engagements
in Chinese Philosophy
Type: ISCP 21st International Conference on Chinese Philosophy
Institution: Institute of Philosophy, University of Berne
Location: Berne (Switzerland)
Date: 2.–5.7.2019
Deadline: 15.9.2018
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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.
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, Australia
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
Venue
University of Berne
Lerchenweg 36
CH-3000 Berne 12
Switzerland
Web: www.philosophie.unibe.ch
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 15, 2018
Acceptance by:
November 15, 2018
Final version of paper due:
February 1, 2019
Hotel registration deadline:
March 15, 2019
Organizers
R. A. H. King, University of Berne, Institute of Philosophy,
Switzerland
JeeLoo Liu, Department of Philosophy, California State University,
Fullerton, USA
Ann Pang-White, Department of Philosophy, The University of Scranton,
USA
Weimin Sun, Department of Philosophy, California State University,
Northridge, USA
Jinli He, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Trinity
University, USA
Genyou Wu, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China
Zemian Zheng, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Richard A. H. King
Institute of Philosophy
University of Berne
Länggassstrasse 49a
CH-3000 Berne 9
Switzerland
Email: richard.k...@philo.unibe.ch
Web: http://www.iscp-online.org
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