11.17: Prof. Michael Beaney Lecture Series-5
Lecture 5:
Pulling and Pushing Mohist Logic
Mohist logic can be seen as concerned with one-step inferences involving the compounding of names—inferences of the form ‘A is B; so FA is FB’. Some of these are good inferences and some are bad, and this lecture will explore the ways in which the Mohists established their claims about the validity or invalidity of such inferences. Their explicit argumentation may seem analytically suspect but on deeper analysis, we can often find arguments that can be defended, or at least can make better sense of what might otherwise seem implausible. [In this lecture I will substantially develop the ideas summarized in §2 (entitled ‘The problem of Chinese logic’) of my article, ‘Swimming Happily in Chinese Logic’.]
[This lecture will develop the ideas in my article ‘Swimming Happily in Chinese Logic’, which looked solely at the famous happy fish dialogue.]
讲座信息
题目
Pulling and Pushing Mohist Logic
主讲人
Michael Beaney毕明安教授
主持人
Han Linhe 韩林合教授
时间
11月17日（周五）15:00-17:00（北京时间）
地点
燕园22楼212室
主讲人简介
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Michael Beaney（毕明安），德国柏林洪堡大学“分析哲学史”教席持有人，清华大学客座教授。现有职务包括国际分析哲学史学会（Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy）会长、英国哲学史协会（British Society for the History of Philosophy）常任理事、《英国哲学史杂志》（British Journal for the History of Philosophy）主编。毕明安教授生于1959年，自1990年从牛津大学取得博士学位以来，先后任教于约克大学、曼彻斯特大学、耶拿大学、纽伦堡大学和洪堡大学等，曾担任北京大学及北京师范大学客座教授。出版关于弗雷格哲学和分析哲学史研究专著3部、编著9部，在Philosophical Studies和Mind 等顶级哲学刊物上发表论文20余篇。
Michael Beaney (毕明安) is Professor of History of Analytic Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Regius Chair of Logic at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and Visiting He Lin Chair Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Educated at Oxford, he taught at various universities in London and Yorkshire before taking up his current posts. His books include Frege: Making Sense (London, 1996), The Frege Reader (edited, Blackwell, 1997), Imagination and Creativity (Open University, Milton Keynes, 2005), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy (edited, OUP, 2013), Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2017), and a new translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus in the Oxford World’s Classics series (OUP, 2023). He was Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy from 2011 to 2020, and remains on the Editorial Board. He is General Editor of the series on history of analytic philosophy published by Palgrave Macmillan (40+ volumes), and one of the General Editors of the British Society for the History of Philosophy series New Texts in the History of Philosophy published by Oxford University Press (10+ volumes). As well as the history of analytic philosophy, his research interests include Chinese philosophy (especially ancient Chinese philosophy of language and logic), creativity, philosophical methodology (especially analysis), historiography, and philosophical translation.
His recent paper on Chinese logic is available at:https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoab010; and his paper on ‘Open-mindedness and Ajar-mindedness in History of Philosophy’ is available at:https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12614.
主持人简介
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韩林合，北京大学外国哲学研究所教授、博士生导师，山西大学名誉教授。研究领域为西方哲学、道家哲学。
主要著作有《〈逻辑哲学论〉研究》、《分析的形而上学》《虚己以游世——〈庄子〉哲学研究》《维特根斯坦〈哲学研究〉解读》《游外以冥内——郭象哲学研究》等；主持编译八卷本《维特根斯坦文集》；主要译作有《逻辑哲学论》、《哲学研究》、《纯粹理性批判》等。
