International Conference

How Legitimate is the Philosophical Canon?
Concrete Applications from Greek and Chinese Philosophies
Thessaloniki, October 30-31, 2023

The International Conference on Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese Philosophy will be held in Thessaloniki, on October 30-31, 2023, with invited distinguished speakers from academic or research institutions in Greece, Europe, America and Asia.

The proceedings of the Conference aim both at a more complete understanding of the philosophical activity in the ancient Greek and Chinese world and at diagnosing the philosophicalness of the criteria based on which an ancient thought is included in the philosophical canon.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
No canon, no dice? Does philosophy use a canon at all?
Prof. Richard King, Professor ordinarius with focus on history of philosophy at the University of Bern
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Canon-making in the age of cross-cultural philosophy
Dr Curie Virág, Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
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Diversifying the Philosophical Canon Through Sino-Hellenic Comparative Philosophy: Reflections on the Nature of Philosophical Practice
Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao, Needham Research Fellow at Clare Hall (University of Cambridge)
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Problematizing the Canon by Redeeming the Black Sheep: The Chinese and Greek Sophists arguing with tradition
Prof. Lisa Indracollo, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tallinn University
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Ancient philosophy within a global purview: from historiography to first-order philosophical interpretation
Dr Lea Cantor, Research Fellow in philosophy at Peterhouse (University of Cambridge)
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What should be the focal points for philosophical theorizing? A test case from early Chinese thought
Prof. Hagop Sarkissian, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the City University of New York (Baruch College)
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Should Mohist views on politics be considered as part of the philosophical canon?
Prof. Georgios Steiris, Professor at the Department of Philosophy (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
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Is Xenophon a philosophos? Reflections on the refusal of the Moderns to recognize him as a philosopher
Prof. Louis-André Dorion, Chair of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy (University of Montreal)
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Who counts as a philosopher? The case of Marcus Aurelius
Prof. John Sellars, Reader in the History of Philosophy at Royal Holloway (University of London)
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Aristotle and Xunzi on the Good Life
Prof. Chris Fraser, Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture (University of Toronto)
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A cross-cultural perspective on the Confucian “li” 禮 and the Stoic decorum
Dr David Machek, Lecturer at University of Bern / Research fellow at Charles University in Prague
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Cross-Cultural Reflections on ‘Bodily Excellence’
Prof. Matthew Walker, Associate Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College (Singapore)