sin-aps goes to Zürich (11–13 July, 2025)
Two sin-aps members, Eva Henke and Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard will participate in a workshop on Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy organized by Polina Lukicheva (University of Zurich), Kai Marchal (National Chengchi University Taipei), Grzegorz Polak (Maria Sklodowska-Curie University Lublin, UMCS), and Rafael Suter (University of Zurich). The workshop explores how processes of thinking and reasoning are reflected in traditional Chinese philosophy — including forms that are not easily captured by formal or discursive logic. One avenue we pursue is the connection between vision and thought as developed in Chinese philosophical traditions. While the metaphor of vision in the European context often represents intellectual clarity or timeless truths, Chinese philosophical texts engage vision differently: as a means of attending to change, process, and the situatedness of the observer. The workshop brings together perspectives from Chinese philosophy, Buddhist studies, and related fields to examine how distinctions between discursive and non-discursive modes of thought are articulated — or problematized — in Chinese traditions, and how these approaches may offer alternative ways of understanding reasoning itself.
Registration for online-attendance: http://www.aoi.uzh.ch/registration
For a detailed program, see here.