HOLIC Workshop 2022 “Textual Analysis as the Basis for Understanding Chinese Logical Thought”
Time: January 15-17, 2022
Location: Tsinghua University, Online
Conveners: Yinlin Guan, Jeremy Seligman and Ai Yuan
There is a wealth of early Chinese philosophical texts from the Hundred Schools of Thought, dating from the 6th century BC to 221 BC. These texts are one of the main sources for understanding a wide variety of subjects in Chinese culture. For ideas on logic, the most important texts include the classics of Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, Names, as well as works of military science. These texts contain profound ideas on how to think, reason, and conduct argumentation, as well as the relationship between ming 名 (name) and shi 实 (object/reality), language and logic. Many ideas of these texts continued to be influential throughout Chinese history, and are still of great relevance to today’s world.
Prominent scholars have made great contributions in analysing and interpreting these texts, such as the ground-breaking works by A. C. Graham, Christoph Harbsmeier, and Chad Hansen. In China, Sun Yirang started the tradition of textual analysis in the late Qing Dynasty, and it has been continued by Hu Shi, Feng Youlan, Shen Youding, Wu Yujiang, among many others.
The HOLIC workshops are carrying on this tradition with particular attention to logical thought and to facilitate the Handbook project. Some of the previous events can be found at the website: www.holicnet.net. The workshop holds that any idea or theories presented should be firmly based on textual evidence, yet we are open to a variety of methodological approaches.
诸子百家的文本是我们理解中国文化中各种哲学问题的主要依据。就逻辑思想而言,重要的文本包括儒家、道家、墨家、法家、名家的经典,以及关于军事和策略的文本。这些文本不仅包含了关于如何思维、推理和论证的深刻思想,也涵盖了名实关系、语言与逻辑之间的关系的深入讨论。其中,有很多观念和思想对当今世界仍有重大的启发意义。
在国际汉学界,葛瑞汉(A. C. Graham)、瓦格纳(Rudolf G. Wagner)、何莫邪(Christoph Harbsmeier)和陈汉生(Chad Hansen)等著名学者在分析和解释哲学文本方面做出了巨大的贡献。在中国,孙诒让在晚清时期开创了文本分析的传统,胡适、冯友兰、沈有鼎、吴毓江等学者也继承了这一传统。
我们组织的中国逻辑史研讨会秉承重视文本分析的传统,通过文本分析对逻辑、哲学、思维方式等话题进行研讨,同时推动《中国逻辑思想史手册》项目的开展。(之前的学术活动,见网站:www.holicnet.net)在我们看来,文本是任何想法或理论的坚实基础。但同时,我们对各种研究方法秉持开放态度,积极与当代学者们对话。

Yiu-ming Fung
东海大学, 中国台湾
Tunghai University, Taiwan
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Christoph Harbsmeier
奥斯陆大学
University of Oslo
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Jana Rošker
卢布尔雅那大学
University of Ljubljana
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Dirk Meyer
牛津大学
University of Oxford
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Joachim Gentz
爱丁堡大学
University of Edinburgh
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