19.10.2020AOI LECTURE: Body and Mind in Early China: Embodied Cognition, Digital Humanities, and the Project of Comparative Philosophy

Referent

Prof. Dr. Edward Slingerland (University of British Columbia)

Datum, Zeit und Ort

Montag, 19. Oktober 2020, 17:00–19:00 MESZ

Inhalt

It is commonly claimed that mind-body dualism is entirely foreign to China—or “the East” more gener­ally. In his lecture, Professor Slingerland will embrace an embodied view of human cognition and will use digital humanities methods to demonstrate that und how the early Chinese saw the mind and body as separate.