Dr. David Machek
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
SNF Projekt "Carving up moral motivation in ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman thought"
- Telefon
- +41 31 631 35 69
- david.machek@philo.unibe.ch
- Büro
- S 201, Lerchenweg 36
- Postadresse
- Universität Bern
Institut für Philosophie
Länggassstrasse 49a
3012 Bern
Werdegang
- Seit Januar 2019: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Ambizione, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds) am Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bern
- 2016-2018: Wissentschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (gestiftet von Schweizerischem Nationalfonds) bei Prof. Richard King (Geschichte der Philosophie, Universität Bern)
- 2009-2015: Doktorat in der Altchinesischen und Griechischen Philosophie an der Universität Toronto (Dissertation: "Virtuosos of the Ordinary: Comparative Interpretations of Stoic and Daoist Thought" betreut von Prof. Vincent Shen und Prof. Brad Inwood)
- 2003-2008: Studium der Philosophie und Sinologie an der Karlsuniversität in Prag (Magister)
Neueste Publikationen
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“Aristotle on Enkratic Ignorance.” Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming).
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“Did Seneca accede to μετριοπάθεια in his consolatory texts?” Ancient Philosophy 38.2, 383–408, 2018.
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“Carving, taming, or gardening? Plutarch on emotions, reason and virtue.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26.2, 255–275, 2018.
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“Stoics and Daoists on Freedom As Doing Necessary Things.” Philosophy East and West 68.1, 174–200, 2018.
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“Using our selves: An interpretation of the Stoic four-personae theory in Cicero’s De Officiis I.” Apeiron: A Journal of Ancient Philosophy and Science 49.2, 2016.
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“Beyond sincerity and pretense: role-playing and unstructured self in the Zhuangzi.” Asian Philosophy 26.1, 52–65, 2016.
Research Interests
I work in ancient philosophy, Græco-Roman and Chinese, from both comparative and non-comparative perspective. My research interests are mostly in ethics, and more specifically in moral psychology. So far, I have published mainly on Stoicism, Aristotle, Mengzi and Zhuangzi. I believe that doing history of philosophy across two wholly different philosophical traditions can be conducive to doing a better history of philosophy. My most current research project is a shorter book on early Chinese theories of ethical self-cultivation, provisionally entitled Nourishing the Heart. This book is envisaged as a part of a larger research project about moral motivation and motivational conflict in Græco-Roman and Chinese philosophical traditions.