VENUES

Friday

University of Berne Main Building, Room HS 220

Hochschulsstrasse 4, bus stop Universitt or Schanzenstrasse

Saturday &
Sunday

University of Berne Unitobler, Room F-121

Lerchenweg 36, bus stop Unitobler

Monday
University of Berne, Room 205

Hallerstrasse 6, bus stop Universitt

All bus stops are on the bus line 12
Contact:

Richard King: richard.king@philo.unibe.ch

Nadine Schindler: nadine.schindler@philo.unibe.ch

Friday, December 12, 2014, 18:15

Room HS 220, University of Berne
Hochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Berne

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Room F-121, University of Berne
Lerchenweg 36, CH-3012 Berne

Martin Tuber, Rector, University of Berne

Welcome

09:00

Ralph Weber, Institute for European Global Studies, Basel

On Vagueness in Inquiry: The Cases of Analogy and Comparison and
the Example of Early Chinese and Grco-Roman Ethics

10:30

Coffee break

R.A.H. King, Philosophy, University of Berne

Introduction
Jeremy Tanner, Archaeology, University College London
The Ethics and the Aesthetics of Tyrannicide in Classical Athens and Early
Imperial China
Drinks
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?

10:30

Coffee break

10:45

Yu Jiyuan, Philosophy, Buffalo

Linking Man with Nature: Analogies, Models and Images in Stoic and Daoist Moral Naturalism

12:15

Lunch break, Restaurant Lnggass-Stbli

13:15

Jenny Jingyi Zhao, Classics, Cambridge

Models of Behaviour: Xunzi and Aristotle on the Politics of Moral Education

14:45

Coffee break

15:00

16:30

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

Coffee break

Discussants

Sarah Broadie, St Andrews, Karine Chemla, CNRS,

Gavin Lawrence, UCLA, Arnd Kerkhecker, Berne, Richard King, Berne,
Georgia Tsouni, Berne, Oliver Weingarten, Prague

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

12:15
Lunch break, Restaurant Warteck
13:15

Christopher Cullen, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge

Changing Heaven and Earth: Observation, Calculation and Ideology in Early Imperial China.

14:45

Coffee break

15:00
Rafael Suter, Sinology, Zurich

Meaning and Structure: Argumentation in the Chunqiu Fanlu

16:30
Coffee break
16:45

Winnie Sung, Philosophy, NTU Singapore

Images in Jiebipian of the Xunzi

18:15

Mary Louise Gill, Philosophy, Brown University

Models in Platos Statesman

20.00

Symposium Dinner, Restaurant Beaulieu

Monday, December 15, 2014

Room 205, University of Berne
Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Berne
09:00


10:30

William Charlton, Philosophy, Edinburgh

Some Uses of Analogy in Classical Greek Philosophy

10:45



12:15

Magdalena Hoffmann, Philosophy, Berne

Figures of Excellence. A Comparative Analysis of Platos Philosopher Kings, Aristotles 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

Coffee break

Lunch break, Bistro UNIess