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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Crossing Rivers, Crossing Minds: How Yu Became “Metaphor/Analogy” in Early China” by Prof. Zhou Boqun, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Crossing Rivers, Crossing Minds: How Yu Became “Metaphor/Analogy” in Early China” by Prof. Zhou Boqun, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/7mnk1eav Abstract Although sinologists have long debated the existence of metaphor in ancient China, the word often regarded as the classical Chinese equivalent of “metaphor/analogy,” yu 喻, has received relatively little scholarly attention. This lecture offers a new account of the semantic development of yu, drawing on recent paleographic studies of the etymology of yu 俞. In oracle bone inscriptions, yu originally denoted “traveling along a river in a boat” or “crossing a river.” This core meaning later differentiated into words within the same phonetic series expressing physical and abstract forms of “carrying over”: in the physical domain, yu 逾/踰 “to cross over” and shu 輸, “to transport”; in the abstract domain, yu 喻/諭 “to convey, to […]
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FAH/DPHIL Work-in-progress Seminar – “How to read Mafalda: An example of philosophical humor in Latin American comic strips” by Mr. Arqueles Estrada Cartagena
FAH/DPHIL Work-in-progress Seminar – “How to read Mafalda: An example of philosophical humor in Latin American comic strips” by Mr. Arqueles Estrada Cartagena
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/rx3pei7o Abstract The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is a paradigmatic case of graphic philosophical humor in Latin America. Drawing on theory of comics and sequential art, and on detailed comic strips analysis exemplified by Karasik and Newgarden’s How to Read Nancy, I argue that Mafalda’s childish enquiries confront adults’ discourse using a humorous and philosophical attitude. Through micro-analyses of selected strips, I want to show how Quino —Mafalda’s creator— uses graphic discourse to present questions about politics, ethics, and modernity in the everyday life of her drawn daughter. Comparative references to other strips like Nancy or Calvin & Hobbes will clarify what is distinctive about Mafalda: a humor grounded less in simplified gag mechanics or personal fantasy […]
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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Don’t Say Farewell to the Modal Theory of Luck ” by Prof. Jesse Hill, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Don’t Say Farewell to the Modal Theory of Luck ” by Prof. Jesse Hill, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/7mnk1eav Abstract It has recently been argued that Frankfurt-Style lottery cases are counterexamples to the modal account of luck, which claims that an event is lucky only if it is modally fragile. However, Frankfurt-Style lottery cases aren’t counterexamples to the modal or other accounts of luck. This is because lucky events are matters of chance and significant, but winning a Frankfurt-Style lottery is neither a matter of chance nor significant. While how one wins a Frankfurt-Style lottery (that is, with or without any interference from a Frankfurtian manipulator) is modally fragile, one isn’t lucky to win a lottery that one is guaranteed to win. Bio Jesse Hill is a Research Assistant Professor at Lingnan University and […]