VENUES

Friday University of Berne Main Building, Room HS 220 Hochschulsstrasse 4, bus stop Universität or Schanzenstrasse

Saturday & University of Berne Unitobler, Room F-121 Sunday Lerchenweg 36, bus stop Unitobler

Monday University of Berne, Room 205 Hallerstrasse 6, bus stop Universität 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, 18:15Room HS 220, University of BerneHochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Berne

Martin Täuber, Rector, University of BerneWelcome

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

Jeremy Tanner, Archaeology, University College LondonThe Ethics and the Aesthetics of Tyrannicide in Classical Athens and Early Imperial China

Drinks

Saturday, December 13, 2014Room F-121, University of BerneLerchenweg 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 Länggass-Stübli

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 David Machek, Philosophy, Toronto The Craft of Living According to Zhuangzi and Stoicism 16:30 Coffee break

16:45 Yumi Suzuki, Philosophy, Hong Kong Mohist Fa and Platonic Ideas

Discussants Sarah Broadie, St Andrews, Karine Chemla, CNRS, Gavin Lawrence, UCLA, Arnd Kerkhecker, Berne, Richard King, Berne, Georgia Tsouni, Berne, Oliver Weingarten, Prague

Sunday, December 14, 2014Room F-121, University of BerneLerchenweg 36, CH-3012 Berne

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 Græco-Roman Ethics

10:30 Coffee break

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 Plato’s Statesman

20.00 Symposium Dinner, Restaurant Beaulieu

Monday, December 15, 2014Room 205, University of BerneHallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Berne

09:00 William Charlton, Philosophy, Edinburgh Some Uses of Analogy in Classical Greek Philosophy 10:30 Coffee break 10:45 Magdalena Hoffmann, Philosophy, Berne Figures of Excellence. A Comparative Analysis of Plato‘s Philosopher Kings, Aristotle‘s Phronimos and the Stoic Sage 12:15 Lunch break, Bistro UNIess

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