TBA

The assessment is based on regular attendance at the seminar, active participation in discussions, the presentation of individual philosophical ideas in the form of short interventions, and the final term paper (in English or Chinese).  

Carnap, Rudolf, The Logical Structure of the World, Illinois 2003;

Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Volume One: Language. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955;

Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Volume Two: Mythical Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955;

Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Volume Three: The Phenomenology of Knowledge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957;

Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 1978;

Hampe, Michael. What Philosophy Is For, transl. by Michael Winkler, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018;

Langer, Susan. Philosophy in a New Key. A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1957;

Ma, Lin, van Brakel, Jaap. Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy, New York: SUNY, 2016;

Steineck, Raji. Kritik der symbolischen Formen I: Symbolische Form und Funktion, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2014;

Steineck, Raji. Kritik Der symbolischen Formen II: Zur Konfiguration Altjapanischer Mythologien, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2017;

Van Norden, Bryan W., Ivanhoe, Philip J., eds. Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2023 (third edition);

Whitehead, Alfred N. Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect, New York: Fordham University Press, 1985;

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Tractatus logico-philosophicus, London 1947.