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  1. The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”
  2. Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
  3. Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
  4. From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
  5. The Future Did Not Attend the Project-Approval Meeting: From Unpaid Wastewater Plant Fees to Pre-Sold Apartment Buildings, Hu Yilin Discusses the Monetary Roots of “Afford to Build, but Not to Maintain”
  6. From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears
  7. Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
  8. Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
  9. AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age
  10. Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
  11. The whole world has erupted into a shouting match—what right does a museum have to step in and play peacemaker?
  12. If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
  13. Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?
  14. Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  15. Will AI Restructure the History of Science?
  16. How to Be a Punk Philosopher
  17. “Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09
  18. The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks
  19. Opening Remarks for the Brain-Computer Interface Forum: Interface or Port?
  20. Let Beibei Become Someone Different from Yang Weiwei
  21. The Media Matrix and the Livestream Preview
  22. Email Subscription Has Been Re-enabled
  23. The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
  24. The Network State and Its Technological Foundations
  25. How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New
  26. The Linguistics of the Life Sciences: From Mechanical Analogies to Teleological Analogies—Preface to the Recommended Chinese Translation of The Book of Life
  27. In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”
  28. Museums in a Changing Society
  29. Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
  30. Reading: A Bridge to the Future
  31. Talking About Trump
  32. On the Left’s Self-dug Grave
  33. In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?
  34. The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins
  35. Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism
  36. My blog keeps crashing, and I’ve had enough. I’m准备彻底 updating it. I’m currently troubleshooting the problem, so during this period the blog may look rather ugly.
  37. Common Knowledge as Life
  38. From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture
  39. The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO
  40. The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3
  41. Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed
  42. On “Fair Launch”
  43. Has NFT Failed?
  44. A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
  45. Memory Replacing Computation—A Review of Stiegler’s Technics and Time
  46. Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)
  47. Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch
  48. The Triple Greatness of the Crypto Renaissance
  49. Accelerationism vs. Alignmentism, Socialism(?)
  50. Cultivating a Cultural Atmosphere That Pursues Novelty and Interest — A Review of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  51. AI Is Sick; Web3 Is the Cure
  52. Notes on the “Network City-State”
  53. What Is Technology? (Transcript of the 25th Session of the Jishi Lecture Series)
  54. “Metaverse” from the Perspective of the History of Technology — The New Environment of the Information Revolution
  55. Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution
  56. Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)
  57. Commentary on the 2023 Exam Paper for “Media History and Media Philosophy”
  58. Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency
  59. Review of Radical Markets: Also on Why the Crypto Movement Should Be Radical
  60. Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
  61. How Is a History of Technological Thought Possible? — Mumford’s Historiographical Method as Seen in Technics and Civilization
  62. On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State
  63. On Transhumanism, the Logic of Blockchain, and Huawendao: A Dialogue at SeeDAO
  64. Treating People as People: An Introduction to Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings
  65. Introduction to “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile”
  66. Do We Still Need to “Read” in the Age of “Swiping”?
  67. Summary of the Course “A General History of Technology” (Fall 2022 Semester)
  68. Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)
  69. Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT
  70. The Structure of the Historiographical Revolution — An Introduction to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  71. Unemployment or Liberation? Artificial Intelligence’s Dual Revolution
  72. Play to Action—On Human Liberation in the Digital Age
  73. NFT Value Viewed Through The Philosophy of Money
  74. Excerpt from a Reading Group on The Human Condition: The Boundary Between the Public and the Private, the Distinction Between Property and Wealth, and the Meaning of DAO
  75. Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation
  76. Huawendao White Paper, Version 2.1.1
  77. Confronting “Complexity” — A Review of Big Science
  78. Augmented Reality or Augmented Rationality? The Multiple Ideals of Communication Technology
  79. NFT-ifying Behavioral Histories: The Return of Value to Meaning
  80. Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?
  81. “Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Technology” Course Summary for 2022
  82. Becoming Citizens Capable of Debate—Commencement Address for the 2022 Department of History of Science Graduation Ceremony
  83. In Memory of Master Xianglong
  84. Why Is the Cat Version of “The God of Medicine” Wrong?
  85. From a Snail Shell to the Metaverse—An Evolutionary Theory of Technological “Organs”
  86. The “Nonsense” that Scientifically Combats Scientific Nonsense — Preface to Recommending Exposing Data Nonsense
  87. Heavenly Endowment
  88. The Science Museum in the Metaverse: Looking Ahead to the Future of Digital Collectibles
  89. Creating Something Out of Nothing — How the Metaverse Inflates Big Bubbles
  90. An Interview Transcript on Research Failure
  91. The Metaverse: the “New Continent” of the Information World
  92. Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?
  93. Rebuilding the Threshold—Web3 Is Indeed a Kind of Regression into “Enclosure and Self-Exaltation,” but That May Not Necessarily Be a Bad Thing
  94. Will AI’s “Xiaowuxianggong” Go Berserk? — “Review of AI 3.0”
  95. From the Altar to the Forum: The Practical Significance of the History of Science (A Review of Modern History of Science)
  96. Historical Significance or Practical Significance? — “Science: The Endless Frontier”
  97. On VR (IV): If Houses Are Square, What’s So Strange About People Who See Squares? — On the Sensory Style of the Metaverse
  98. Course Summary for A General History of Technology, Fall 2021 (Questionnaire Summary)
  99. The Cost of Innovation: Another Kind of Lesson from the History of Technology — A Review of The Technology Trap
  100. Commentary on the Autumn 2021 Final Exam for A General History of Technology and Showcase of Outstanding Answer Papers
  101. A Guide to Understanding Media: Means Are the Measure
  102. “The World of Ideas,” “Lyceum”: An NFT Project I Imagined, 2 and 3
  103. “Investiture of the Gods”: An NFT Project I Envisioned
  104. Why Are NFTs Valuable? Rethinking NFTs and Tulips
  105. The Metaverse Is Hyperreality, Not Virtual Reality: From the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution to the Information Revolution
  106. From BTC to NFT: From Wealth to Power
  107. Biography of Things (Continued) — Educational Significance, Secondary-School Science and Technology Innovation, and the Bottleneck Problem
  108. The Biography of Objects: Methods and Significance in the History of Scientific Instruments
  109. Basic Skills in Studying Philosophy: Avoid Reifying Abstract Entities, Resist the Universalization of Holism
  110. In an increasingly impossible-to-take-seriously world, an earnest run-in with JD.com customer service
  111. NFTs and Tulip Mania
  112. “People Are Ends, Not Means” — A Critical Review of China on the Cloud
  113. Games and Its Mission
  114. On VR (3): Some VR Game Experiences and the “Auditory-Tactile Space”
  115. An Interview Transcript about Zhang Xiaoyu’s Technics and Civilization
  116. A Course Summary on Media History and Media Philosophy (Spring 2021)
  117. In the Age of Technology, What Use Is Philosophy? — On “An Introduction to Philosophy of Technology”
  118. A Few Recent Audio-Video Posts
  119. Course Summary for A General History of Technology (Fall 2020)
  120. On “What Is Technology?”: An Interview with China Science Daily
  121. Freedom of Speech and Social Media
  122. Bitcoin: Is There Little Time Left for Poor Students?
  123. “Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?
  124. The Unification of Information Technology and Information Science in the History of Information — A Review of Wu Jun’s Information Transmission
  125. The Growth History of the Scientific Spirit and the Unity of Personality
  126. Bitcoin’s New High Commemoration (II): How Far Are We from the Eternal Bull Market?
  127. Who Is the Worst in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
  128. Getting It Done in Advance — The Common Logic of Napier’s Bones and Logarithms
  129. Who Is the “Computer”? — Starting from the Relationship Between Computer and Calculator.
  130. A Conversation with Teacher Wu at the Yejiaxuan Reading Salon
  131. “A History of the Technology and Philosophical Study of Blockchain” Receives National Social Science Fund Grant
  132. In what sense is “basic science” the cause of “bottlenecking”?
  133. Is Digital Currency Beautiful? — A Review of *The New Currency War*
  134. An Interview with China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News on Questions of Science and Technology
  135. Course Outline: Philosophy of Science and Reading the Original Texts
  136. Rules for Authorship on Coauthored Papers
  137. Course Summary for General History of Technology (Spring 2020)
  138. Why Must Philosophy Be Obscure? — Reflections on a Perfect-Score Zhejiang Essay
  139. Driverless Driving: Transforming the World Like Automobiles Did? — A Review of “The Age of Automation”
  140. Hindsight in the Face of Technology—A Review of The Dark Side of Technology
  141. Can This Really Count as a General History? — The Publication of Extension of Man: A General History of Technology
  142. A Brief Q&A on Bitcoin Halving
  143. How to Write Good Reading Notes Assignments
  144. The “Atmosphere” of Online Teaching, or a New Paradigm
  145. Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis
  146. Rethinking Human Nature in the Age of Technology — A Review of Technics and Time 1
  147. Using Unequal Technology to Promote Equality
  148. Rumor: Seeking Rationality in an Absurd World
  149. Elevating the Enemy, or a Narrative Bigger Than the Grand
  150. The Meaning of “Conflation”: How the Public Can Participate in Scientific Communication
  151. Viruses: Nature’s Temper?
  152. “Preventable and Controllable” — the “Flag” of the Technological Age
  153. Why Has “From One to Infinity” Remained Popular for 70 Years?
  154. Why Is Innovation an Economic Question? — An Analysis of the Concept of Innovation from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology
  155. Is Philosophy of Technology Useful? — Applying Philosophy of Technology in Teaching the Philosophy of Technology Course
  156. From “Information Blocks” to “Blockchains”: Blockchain as a Completion of the Internet
  157. Is an E-cigarette a Cigarette?
  158. On the Swedish Climate Girl (The Decline of the Enlightenment Spirit)
  159. On Backwardness and Getting Beaten
  160. From Spirit Photography to Face-Swapping Apps: On the Popularization and Abuse of Technology
  161. Kant on “Not Lying”
  162. Was There Confucianism in the Ancient West?
  163. On the Amazon Fire and the Amazon Outage
  164. My Qualification to Recruit PhD Students Was Revoked (with an Attached Record of Communication with Prospective Applicants)
  165. Visiting for an Exchange at Jiangsu Province Qinghe Middle School (What Kind of “General Technology” Do Middle School Students Need?)
  166. The Responsibility of Intellectuals
  167. Am I “One” or “Many”? — A Review of I Encompass All Things
  168. Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Second Year)
  169. Technology and Garbage in a Race
  170. Suixuan Is Moving
  171. The “Two Cultures” Debate Is Long Outdated
  172. Should We ‘Bid’ to Snatch Up Talent?
  173. Humans and Technology in Evolution—Technology Also Needs “Protected Areas for Diversity”
  174. Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance
  175. Salute to the Strivers! — Striving for the Capitalist or Striving for All Humanity? (Comments on 996)
  176. Who Can Sell Black Hole Photos? Visual China Can, but So Can You
  177. Upgrading One’s Worldview Is Not So Easy—A Review of Worldview
  178. Writing Robot: The Conflict Between Education and Technology
  179. Don’t Universities for the Elderly Teach You How to Play Games?
  180. From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
  181. From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course
  182. A Compilation of Feedback on the Homework for Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
  183. Is Chinese Studies Anti-Science?
  184. Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
  185. How Can Ethics in the Technological Age Welcome the Future? [Fourth Commentary]
  186. Is Eugenics Justifiable? — A Delayed Judgment [Third Review]
  187. The Abdication of Royal Power and the Reform of the International System of Units
  188. The Disappearance of “Grace” — A Second Discussion of the He Jiankui Affair
  189. “Passing the Buck” Is the Greatest Danger Exposed by the He Jiankui Incident
  190. Can VR Save Us from Our Smartphone Addiction?
  191. Viète and the Transformation of Mathematics from Antiquity to Modernity
  192. AR Glasses and the “Brain in a Vat”
  193. Review of The Meaning of Science
  194. On the Backboard — A Phenomenology of Beat Saber
  195. Course Schedule for the 2018 Fall Semester (Introduction to Philosophy of Technology + Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science)
  196. Selected Commentary on the Anji Conference
  197. On VR (II): A Stage-by-Stage Summary of the Gaming Experience
  198. Newtonian Mechanics and Modern Currency
  199. Balancing Fairness and Efficiency—Can Smart Cities Solve Beijing’s “Hard Stations”?
  200. On Shanzhai: On the Advantages of Being a Latecomer
  201. On Sexual Harassment
  202. Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Student Comments and Summaries of Each Lecture)
  203. On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
  204. The Spirit of Science: Struggle or Harmony?
  205. Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology
  206. What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
  207. On VR (I): The Meaning of “Immersion”
  208. On VR (I): The Meaning of “Immersion”
  209. At what “time” do we need to “check the time”?
  210. History of Science as a Nature Reserve—A Darwinian View of Science
  211. The First Reading Group of This Semester
  212. Further Supplement to PhD Admissions Requirements (Actionable Questionnaire Version) [Expired]
  213. Undergraduate General Education Course: “A General History of Technology”
  214. The “Entrepreneurial Spirit” That Breaks the Balance
  215. The “Entrepreneurial Spirit” that Breaks the Balance
  216. An Interview on Science and Technology in the Magazine China Youth
  217. The Ontological Basis of ‘Scarcity Makes Things Valuable’—With a Discussion of Why Bitcoin Is Valuable
  218. Comments on the 2nd Tsinghua Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
  219. Selected Readings in Philosophy of Science: “Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of the Mind” (Post-Lecture Notes by the Lecturer, by Jalinus)
  220. The “King of Invention” wasn’t called that for nothing—he was the one who invented “invention” itself
  221. Selected Readings in the Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “Facts, Fiction, and Forecast” (Post-lecture Notes by Jiepo Qingshan)
  222. Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (Post-class Notes by the Lecturer, by Yiduo Xiong)
  223. Selected Readings from the Original Texts of Philosophy of Science: Reichenbach (Post-Class Notes by Zhuowu)
  224. Selected Readings in Classics of Philosophy of Science: Sample In-Class Questions
  225. The First Reading Group of the New Semester
  226. Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science: Introduction
  227. Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
  228. Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
  229. On ICOs: The Future of Stocks
  230. Less Habit, More Tracing Back to the Source — A Review of The Origin of Everything
  231. Galileo as an Artist
  232. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class
  233. [A Little Grumble] You Only Realize How Annoying Procrastination Is Once You Become a Teacher
  234. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Using the Toilet
  235. On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
  236. On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
  237. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast
  238. Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident
  239. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed
  240. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: An Introduction
  241. Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]
  242. Bitcoin: A Layperson’s Introduction
  243. Blog Update Basically Complete
  244. Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives
  245. The Blog Is Being Redesigned
  246. The Blame for “Health” Scams Shouldn’t Be Put on the Audience
  247. Science Popularization Should Stand on the Opposite Side of “Innovation”
  248. Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
  249. Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
  250. When Reading Joseph Needham, Do Not “Buy the Casket and Return the Pearl” — A Review of *The Titration of Civilization*
  251. Is the threshold for “learning” Bitcoin higher? — Also on the Different Levels of Technical Knowledge
  252. On Political Correctness (I): Political Correctness and the God’s-Eye View
  253. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage (Postdoctoral Exit Report): Lecture Notes
  254. Lecture Notes on The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage (Postdoctoral Exit Report)
  255. Commemorating Bitcoin’s New High
  256. On Phenomenology (I)
  257. My Course Plan for the History of Science Department
  258. The Origins of Technology
  259. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
  260. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
  261. Technology and Exploiting Loopholes—On Alibaba’s “Mooncake Snatching Incident”
  262. In Memory of Professor Ye Xiushan
  263. I cleaned up many registered users on the blog and temporarily disabled the registration function
  264. I Removed Many Registered Users from the Blog and Temporarily Closed Registration
  265. Is It Worth Building a Super-Large Collider?
  266. Is It Worth Building a Super-Large Particle Collider?
  267. Travel Notes from the Xichang Conference
  268. The knives are really starting to fly and cut people: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Technological Intentionality
  269. The knife really is about to fly up and cut people: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Technical Intentionality
  270. A Loose Phenomenological Discussion of “Artificial Intelligence”
  271. A “Transitional” Work — _Outmoded Wisdom_ (Afterword, Table of Contents, and Selected Images)
  272. The “Layers” of the World—A Few Words on Pokemon GO and AR
  273. “Our” Magazine, “Shared” Youth — A Commemorative Essay on “Gongqingyuan”
  274. When Results Obscure Process — “Scientific Literacy Standards” and Melamine
  275. Results Obscure Process—”Science Literacy Benchmarks” and Melamine
  276. I, Too, Will Take a Shot at the “Chinese Citizens’ Scientific Literacy Benchmark”
  277. “It Must Be Rectification of Names” — Politics, History, and Science
  278. The Self-Realization of Technology (Outline)
  279. On Mirrors (I): The Construction of Interfaces
  280. Internet + Real Estate = Free?
  281. Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo
  282. Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
  283. On Cities (1): What Is a City?
  284. The Inevitable Path to Decentralization—A Few Thoughts on Bitcoin Hard Forks, and, by the Way, on Central Bank Digital Currency
  285. On Garbage (1): From Discarded Things to Useless Things
  286. What Does the Mobile Phone Have to Do with Cooking? — The One and the Many of Technology
  287. The Structure of the Technological Revolution (Draft)
  288. Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Meeting (Benxi篇)
  289. Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Conference (Shenyang Section)
  290. Natural History or Natural Records?
  291. On Small-Class Teaching
  292. The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?
  293. Philosophical Commentary [Episode 2] “What Nice Weather” (Part I): The True Is the Point of Emphasis
  294. Philosophical Ramblings [Episode 1]: Freedom Is Like Treating Someone to a Meal
  295. Philosophical Commentary and Quips [Column Introduction] Philosophy and Life
  296. Stock Market Musings: Freedom and Stability
  297. How Should the General History of Science Be Told? — Course Summary for “General History of Science”
  298. On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course
  299. Compendium of Recommended Readings for a General History of Science
  300. A General History of Science 16: The Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
  301. Lectures on the General History of Science 15: A Special Topic in the History of Mathematics (The Mathematical Revolution)
  302. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 14: Science and the Industrial Revolution [Starting Next Week, We’ll Move to a Different Classroom]
  303. Lectures on the General History of Science 13: Science in the Age of Enlightenment
  304. Lectures on the General History of Science 12: Discussion Session
  305. Lectures on the General History of Science 11: Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution [Next Week’s Class Discussion]
  306. Lectures on the General History of Science 10: The Mechanics Revolution [Class Discussion the Week After Next]
  307. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 9: The Copernican Revolution
  308. Lectures on the General History of Science 8: Printing and the Scientific Revolution
  309. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science
  310. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 6: Special Topics in the History of Chinese Science
  311. Lectures on the General History of Science 5: Roman and Arabic Science
  312. Lectures on the General History of Science 4: Hellenistic Science
  313. Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]
  314. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 2: The Prehistory of Science
  315. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science (Introduction)
  316. This Semester’s Course Schedule
  317. On Genetically Modified Organisms
  318. Why We Don’t Need BitCNY
  319. Copernicus and Nakamoto — A Paradigm Shift in the Technological Revolution
  320. Inner Bodily Consciousness
  321. Supervisors as the Dissertation’s Imagined Adversary—Odds and Ends on Academic Papers
  322. A Summary of the Reading Group on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  323. On CC Licenses
  324. On Civil Servants
  325. An Outline of the General History of Technology
  326. Giving a Talk on the History of Science at Central China Normal University
  327. Course Outline: A Guide to Academic Research
  328. Course Outline: A General History of Science
  329. Bitcoin’s Value Depends on Holding It
  330. Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology
  331. Should Bitcoin Exchanges Have 100% Reserves?
  332. Application Scenarios for Bitcoin Multisignature Technology
  333. An Introduction to the Historiography of the General History of Technology
  334. Bitcoin and Mathematics: How Reliable Is Cryptography?
  335. Exploring the Dark Interstices — A Review of Speculation and Media
  336. Notes and Illustration Sources for “A Brief History of Scientific Culture”
  337. On the Historiographical Program for a General History of Science
  338. An Initial Exploration of Simmel’s Philosophy of Money
  339. Postscript to the Doctoral Dissertation
  340. Postdoctoral Research Plan (A History of “Trash” from the Perspective of Media Ecology)
  341. On the Bitcoin Ban Controversy
  342. MtGox Miscellany: If Something That Could Be Made Public Is Not Made Public, There Must Be Something Shady Behind It
  343. The Dark Forest and the Law of Evolution, Thought and Expression — Some Complaints about The Three-Body Problem
  344. Nandu Media’s “Bitcoin” Special Feature Interview Questionnaire
  345. Why Won’t Bitcoin Fall to Zero? — Random Thoughts on Bitcoin Market Trends
  346. On the Question of the Scientificity of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  347. Why Should Young People Publish Books?—Starting from Sounding the West, Striking the East
  348. Why Doesn’t Bitcoin Fit Gresham’s Law (Bad Money Drives Out Good)?
  349. Is Bitcoin Environmentally Friendly?
  350. Art: The Margin of Technology
  351. Toys, Mirrors, and Art (Reflections on a Seminar and a Preview)
  352. Some Thoughts on Teaching Assistants for Small-Group Discussion Sessions in General Education Elective Courses
  353. The Rationality of Whig History and the Possibility of an Anti-Whig Approach
  354. The Revolutionary History of Media
  355. Travel Notes on the Lushan Conference
  356. What Is Wrong with “Eugenics” — A Review of Against Perfection
  357. A Natural History of Media—McLuhan’s Method
  358. Bitcoin: Musings on Mining and Altcoins
  359. Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma
  360. Bitcoin: The Age of Exploration
  361. The Economic History of Media—From Marx to Innis
  362. An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike
  363. Miscellaneous Musings on Gambling
  364. Post-80s: The First Generation of Young People in an Age of Twilight
  365. Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
  366. Bitcoin: An Endless Scam
  367. Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
  368. Human-Centricity or Humble Solipsism? — A Discussion of Whether Heidegger’s Philosophy Is a Philosophy of Subjectivity
  369. A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition
  370. Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes
  371. Photography and Science
  372. On Page Charges
  373. On Delayed Graduation and Looking for a Job
  374. On NetEase Mail, Cookies, and Privacy in the Internet Age
  375. A Civilizational History of Technology—Using Mumford as an Example
  376. The First Weibo Post That Got Blocked~
  377. Updated the Blog Email Address
  378. The Paradox of Fairness—On Halting Ticket-Grabber Plugins
  379. The History of Work
  380. Contempt and Locality
  381. The Two Falls of the Concept of “Nature” and Nature as “Anti-Normative” in Its Original Sense
  382. Equality or Freedom: On the Question of Attending School Outside One’s Hometown
  383. Blog hosting moved to Aliyun~
  384. Travel Notes from the Guangzhou Conference
  385. A Supplement to “Media History as Transcendental Philosophy”: The Relation Between Ontology and Epistemology; Nature Is Naturally the Boundary of Technology
  386. On the Discussion of Intentional History and Actual History
  387. On Elitism and Esoteric Truth
  388. Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance
  389. [Reprint] Zhou Ruixuan: Lovers of wisdom, the things you don’t know — A note on Hu Yilin, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, Class of 2010
  390. A Philosophy of Cinema, Not a Philosophy About Cinema—Reading Technics and Time 3: The Problem of Cinema’s Time and the Pain of Existence
  391. On the Diaoyu Islands
  392. Media and Morality
  393. Olympiad Math: The Side Road to the Gaokao
  394. The Shameful Greek Spirit
  395. The Whole-Nation System and the Pursuit of Excellence
  396. Solving Problems and Institutional Reform
  397. Disasters and Despotism
  398. Chopsticks and Internet Addiction
  399. My Book-Writing Plan
  400. Youth and Politics
  401. 20120628
  402. The 1000th Blog Post
  403. A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”
  404. Christian Creationism and the Rise of Modern Science
  405. Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”
  406. Joining the Party Burdened by Guilt
  407. Knowledge Is Connection
  408. Recommended Introductory Reading on Phenomenology: “Studies in Lived Experience”
  409. The Flush Toilet: City, Civilization, Modernity
  410. Nature as Raw Meat or Bacon
  411. Patriotism and Hatred of Enemies
  412. On Choosing an English Translation of “The Critique of Pure Reason”
  413. The Left and Right, Chinese Style
  414. Do the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment
  415. Brazenly Shameless
  416. Switched the server back to Beijing dual-line
  417. The Spring and Autumn Annals Style or Scientific Research? — Is the Mission of the Media to Seek Truth?
  418. The Philosopher’s Profession, or the Professional Philosopher?
  419. Satisfaction and Choice—Reading Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants
  420. Recommended Chinese-Language Bibliography on Environmental Philosophy
  421. The Distanting and Severing of “This”
  422. In Praise of “Rumors”
  423. The Multiple Layers of Technological Embodiment (embodiment, incarnation, manifestation)
  424. Why Place Ads
  425. Technical Intentionality and the Unconscious
  426. The Re-Creation of the World: How Modern Science Came Into Being
  427. On “Gongqingyuan”
  428. [Weibo] Earth Hour
  429. The title doesn’t show up on the blog homepage, but it still exists~
  430. Let’s test posting a Weibo directly on the blog~
  431. Western Learning as Substance, Chinese Learning as Application
  432. Night Reading Mencius: The Traitor Faction
  433. Democracy Against the People-as-the-Basis: A Debate on Weibo
  434. The Mediality of “Natural Seeing”
  435. A History of Technological Thought Between the Legs
  436. Where Is the Journal Conservative? — A Brief Note on Submitting a Manuscript
  437. The “Natural Selection” of Technology—A Critique of Levinson’s Theory of Media Evolution
  438. Notes on “Being and Time” II: “Being and Media”?
  439. Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules
  440. Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light
  441. Black Bear and Virtue Ethics
  442. The Strong Program of Media History
  443. Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
  444. Bottom-Up Reform
  445. A Second Discussion of Fang Yaohan: Wild Animals and Freedom of Speech
  446. About Fang Yaohan
  447. “The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good
  448. Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak
  449. Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist
  450. [Repost] Call for Papers for the 6th National Academic Conference on Phenomenology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  451. “Internet Addiction” Stems from a Craving for the “Real World”
  452. From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website
  453. “Intentional History” and the Aim of Historiography
  454. On the Final Essay Question in the General History of Science Course: “The Key Machine of the Industrial Age Was Not the Steam Engine but the Clock”
  455. Regarding the Third Assignment for Ke Tong: “On Bacon’s Science”
  456. Love of Wisdom and Patriotism
  457. Schneider, What’s the Matter with You? Or, on the Thickness of Media—An Interpretation of “The Phenomenology of Perception” 1.3.8
  458. Cookbooks and the History of Science and Technology
  459. A Portal for the History of Science and Philosophy? A Library? — On the Future Fate of keshizhe.net
  460. On Communicating with Extraterrestrial Civilizations—A Snarky Commentary on Jiang Xiaoyuan’s Report
  461. Second Commentary on the Science and Technology Assignment (On the Revolutionary and Conservative Aspects of the Copernican System)
  462. Exchange First, Scholarship Second—A Summary of the Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
  463. Introduction to the History, Philosophy, and Science Conference Handbook
  464. Politics Is Dispute—Starting from the Smoke-Free Campus
  465. Mathematics, Education, and Machines
  466. What Is an “Eduroam-Free Address”?
  467. Huaxia Mingwang’s hosting failure rate is too high…
  468. Ye Men Gathering — Archived Old Essays
  469. Some Replies on the General History of Science BBS in the First Half of the Semester
  470. Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science
  471. Notes on the keshizhe.net submission area (and adding a “replies visible only to the original poster” feature)
  472. Beijing Region Graduate Student Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science Continues to Solicit Submissions~~
  473. On the First Assignment for History of Science and Technology: Basic Features of Hellenistic Science Seen Through Ptolemaic Astronomy
  474. Is the University a Public Sphere? — Further Thoughts on Publicly Posting Grades and Publicly Critiquing Assignments
  475. Arendt Reading Notes
  476. My New Mobile Device: HTC Flyer
  477. Revisiting “Natural History” (Natural Science) as a Historiographical Program
  478. Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
  479. What Does the Red Cross Do? What Do Public Welfare Organizations Do?
  480. On “Knowledge Changes One’s Destiny”
  481. The Difference Between Pirates and Heroes?
  482. Access Statistics of the History of Science, Philosophy, and Technology BBS Since Its Launch..
  483. Is High Speed a Good Thing?
  484. Recommended Introductory Readings in Philosophy of Technology
  485. The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet
  486. Why Create Such a Forum?
  487. Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History of Science and Philosophy
  488. Call for Papers, Meeting Summary, and BBS Homepage for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
  489. Why Not Revive Confucianism?
  490. On Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
  491. Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
  492. [Announcement] Starting to Try Weibo
  493. Some Thoughts on the People’s Congress System
  494. A Little Commemoration of English Class
  495. Why Is the Three Gorges Dam Said to Be the Culprit Behind the Drought?
  496. I Don’t Object to the “Jeanswest Building”
  497. Utensils and Ritual Vessels
  498. On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology
  499. Added a Subscription Feature
  500. Switched EzEngage to connect with Weibo via WordPress
  501. The Distinctiveness of China’s Written Culture and Print Culture
  502. Three Meta-Disagreements with Analytic Philosophy
  503. Art, Media, and the Space of Meaning in the Interstices
  504. SCI and Academic Fairness
  505. A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”
  506. Why Do We Need Protein? — The Pursuit of Relative Truth
  507. What Is Democracy? Livelihood? Equality? Democracy Is Article 35 of the Constitution
  508. Media Realism—Scientific Realism from the Perspective of Media Ontology
  509. Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin
  510. [Draft] Several Issues in the Philosophy of Science from the Perspective of Media Ontology—Scientific Method, Causality, and Realism
  511. This Issue’s Music: “Baba Yetu”
  512. [Reprint] One Against a Hundred—Those Internet Companies with Few Employees and Many Users
  513. A Talk on “Copyright” in the Internet Age
  514. Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media
  515. Some Thoughts on the Elements of History of Science in the Primary School “Science” Curriculum
  516. Plugins Currently in Use on the Blog (Updated 11-11-20)
  517. Music for This Issue: TiawTang (Thailand’s Music in Civilization V)
  518. The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition
  519. Switching Blogs Again!
  520. A Chat Record on Determinism and Free Will
  521. The Blind Spots of Modern Medicine as Seen from “Double-Blind Experiments”
  522. Some Thoughts on the Future of Energy
  523. The Handy and the In-Hand
  524. What Can Chinese Tradition Bring to Modern Politics?
  525. A Paragon of the History of Scientific Thought — Dijksterhuis’s The Mechanization of the World Picture
  526. Tracing the Origins of the “Mechanical View of Nature”—The Most Classic Whiggish Internal History of Science (A Review of *The Mechanization of the World Picture*)
  527. “Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism
  528. The Tower of Babel and the Accelerator — Reflections on Ma Boqiang’s Lecture
  529. Thought, History, Poetry — One of the Explanations of This Version of the Categorical Scheme
  530. Blogcn Really Does Have Log Review After All
  531. Initial Setup of the Suixuan Sub-Base Completed
  532. Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
  533. Blog Relocation Effective Today
  534. The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture
  535. The Capitalization of Technology — Reflections on Han Qide’s Lecture
  536. Hello, World!
  537. The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures
  538. Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry in Biology—Thoughts on Chang Zengyi’s Lecture
  539. On Reform of the Gaokao Guaranteed Admission System and the Jiaozhou Road Fire
  540. Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing
  541. Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”
  542. The Blog’s Indenture
  543. Natural History as a Historiographical Program—Reflections on Liu Huajie’s Lecture
  544. Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
  545. “Natural History” Should Be Translated as “Natural History”
  546. Reexamining Medicine, Reexamining Human Nature—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
  547. “The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture
  548. Civilization History as History of Science—A Review of Sarton’s Ancient Science in the Golden Age of Greece
  549. Tradition as the Condition for Creation—Reflections on Dong Guangbi’s Lecture
  550. Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
  551. Space and Geometry—Questions for Reflection and Suggestions for Discussion from Teacher Wang’s Lecture
  552. The benevolent are invincible: some associations
  553. The Secrets of the Turing Machine
  554. A Few Words on “What Is Science” at the Start of the Course
  555. Has the Yiku server apparently moved to the United States? …
  556. A Travelogue of the Hailar Conference
  557. ZZ Power Station Quietly Begins Construction / Nujiang Again in Crisis (Southern Metropolis Daily, 2008-03-17)
  558. Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology
  559. Theses on Media Ontology
  560. “Proof” and the Mathematical Spirit
  561. Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy
  562. How Should We Understand Why “Proof” Is the Core Concept of the “Foundations of Mathematics”?
  563. Has Chaos Theory Overturned the Determinism of Classical Physics? (Philosophy of Physics Assignment)
  564. What the Wang Hui Affair Reveals About the Climate in Chinese Academia
  565. Why Post Grades?
  566. Postscript After Grading the 2010 General History of Science Exam
  567. Answers to the Essay Questions on the Final Exam for History of Science
  568. The Political Mission of College Students?
  569. On the New Three Kingdoms and Artworks in the Age of Mass Media
  570. [Archive] Waiku Blog News
  571. The Road of the Azure Sky
  572. A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Media Ontology
  573. Two earthquake orphans on stage? What are you thinking?!
  574. Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand
  575. Doctoral Research Plan (Media Phenomenology)
  576. On CCTV’s Blocking of English Abbreviations
  577. Phenomenology Notes 3
  578. Quantum Mechanics: Did It Introduce the Observer, or Send God Away?
  579. Phenomenology Notes 2
  580. Who Has “Politicized” Google?
  581. Phenomenology Notes 1
  582. Winter Break Essay V: Love, or the Search for Certainty
  583. Winter Vacation Essays, No. 4: Green Dam—The Taboo of Eating Beef or the Taboo of Eating Pork
  584. Third Winter Vacation Essay: Will and Responsibility
  585. Winter Break Essay No. 2: Relativism
  586. Winter Vacation Miscellany I: What Is Modernity?
  587. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]
  588. The Naturalization of Mathematics — A Wordplay on the Mechanization of the World Picture
  589. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-09 [Penultimate Issue?]
  590. Miscellaneous Notes from This Issue’s Xindao Salon 10-01-02
  591. The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai
  592. On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions
  593. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-12-26
  594. 09-12-24 Walking on the Ice of Weiming Lake
  595. Grades and Comments on the First Question of the Second Assignment in General History of Science
  596. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12-12
  597. Jottings from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12–5
  598. Miscellaneous Notes from the Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Conference I
  599. November 2009 Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Photo Album
  600. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-11-21 [The Next Session May Be Paused Once]
  601. Media · Sensation · Space-Time — A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology
  602. Grade Record for Question 3 of the First Assignment in General History of Science
  603. (For the first assignment in the General History of Science—“Briefly describe the basic features of Greek cosmology and astronomy”) A few words before I’ve even graded the assignment~
  604. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-10-24
  605. Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?
  606. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-10-10 [Part 1 of the Special Topic on “Science and the View of Life”]
  607. Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-10-03
  608. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-26
  609. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-19
  610. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-09-12
  611. Communication and Chess
  612. 09-09-11
  613. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-08-29
  614. Xindao Salon Will Experimentally Resume on August 29
  615. Miscellaneous Thoughts on Marching in Step
  616. [Archive] Einstein on Parades
  617. What Is Temperamental Compatibility and Scattered Association
  618. zz Ministry of Justice: Lawyers Handling Sensitive Cases Must Pay Heed to Politics and the Bigger Picture
  619. [Announcement] The Xindao Salon Will Continue to Be Suspended Tomorrow
  620. A Cultural History, Technological History, and Intellectual History of Bathing
  621. zz Sender: SMG Solar Eclipse Live Broadcast Shockingly Absurd Quotations (Repost)
  622. Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”
  623. [Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed
  624. Ji Xianlin: “Ji Xianlin on Translation”
  625. When the End Seeps into the Process, So That the Means Too Become Ends
  626. On “Benefiting Others by Serving Oneself”
  627. zzA once-in-a-century astronomical feast: July 22 · the Yangtze River total solar eclipse
  628. How to Reason with Emotion
  629. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-07-04
  630. Solar Eclipse and Ritual
  631. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-06-27
  632. The Problem of Degrees of Freedom in Love
  633. Langdon Winner: Do Artifacts Have Politics? — Translated by Gu Chi
  634. Recollecting “Political Astronomy”
  635. Random Thoughts on Abacus and Numbers
  636. [Reprint] “History of Science and Technology” Graduate Entrance Exam Questions (2009)
  637. Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-06-20
  638. Mirror and Glass: Tactility and Reality (Postscript to “Aristotle’s Tactile World”)
  639. When Reading a Philosopher, One Must Pay Attention Not Only to What He Says on the Surface, but Also to the Emotions and Intentions Lurking Behind His Words.
  640. Aristotle’s Tactile World
  641. Reflections Inspired by Feeling
  642. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-06-13
  643. A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:
  644. This Issue’s Music: Jordi Savall: Celtic Double Bass: The Musical Priest / Scotch Mary [Traditional Irish]
  645. The God of Luck Appeared to Me~
  646. How wonderful it is to fly through the air and kiss the earth when it rains…
  647. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]
  648. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon, 09-05-30 [and a Preview of the Next Round of Salons]
  649. Notes from the New Island Salon, 09-05-23
  650. The Responsibility of the Communicator
  651. Contracts and Spells in Love
  652. Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys
  653. Philosophy and Poetry
  654. Today’s Xindao Salon Jottings 09-05-16
  655. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09
  656. Reading an Einstein Biography
  657. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02
  658. Latour: Drawing Things Together Class Report
  659. Reading Notes on “Science in Action” (Prepared for the classroom report on Latour: Drawing Things Together)
  660. Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25
  661. Translating “natural history” as “natural history” is also not bad
  662. Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18
  663. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-11
  664. [A Quick Science Explainer][Repost] Allergic Rhinitis
  665. On the Original Content of My Philosophy
  666. Remembering Illness While Ill
  667. On How to Write a Book Report
  668. My philosophy lacks healing power
  669. Speaking of Childhood’s First Dream
  670. Several Scenes from Childhood Memory: Cats, Rain, Streets, Beads, and Chess
  671. (Expired) Unless something comes up, every Saturday I’ll be in the window-side corner of the non-smoking area at Xindao
  672. On “Fate”
  673. Relationism and the Philosophy of Communication
  674. [German] Josef Pieper: “Leisure: The Basis of Culture” — ★
  675. Philosophical Style and Attitudes Toward Love
  676. Chen Jiaying: The Influence of Translations of Western Thought on Contemporary Chinese Reasoning
  677. [Let This Stand as a Record] Beijing Temperatures Are Skyrocketing; Today’s High Could Reach 23°C
  678. About Rainwater, Let Me Say a Few Mystical Things Too; I Haven’t Forgotten That I Am Rain
  679. This Issue’s Music: Händel Harp Concerto, Op. 4 No. 6 – Allegro
  680. On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy
  681. The Moral Law Above My Head and the Starry Sky in My Heart
  682. Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao
  683. New Island Dialogues, Zero: Cafés and Scholarship
  684. On “吐嘈”
  685. Yu Zemin: “Seeing Europe in Cafés,” Shandong Pictorial Publishing House, 2007
  686. Bach’s Cantata No. 211, “Coffee”
  687. zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society
  688. What Is Questioning? — On the Search for Possibility, Again
  689. This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”
  690. [Witness] A Rectification Campaign on the Chinese Internet: Lists of Websites Exposed in the Nationwide Crackdown on the Vulgar Trend on the Internet (Batches 1 through 9)
  691. I Won’t Date in Cafés.
  692. On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)
  693. Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007
  694. A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks
  695. A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival
  696. This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.
  697. How Do I Read?
  698. Four Readings of “Scholarship”
  699. JOKER! — The Clown, the One Who Tells Jokes, the Wild Card, the Big Joker, the King.
  700. The Structure of a Pirate Ship
  701. What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?
  702. How Is Scientific Realism Possible?
  703. On My Research Plan for the Next Few Years—Coursework for Reading and Writing
  704. Philosophy and Nudity
  705. Why Do You Read or Not Read My Articles?
  706. Preliminary Completion of Keyword Addition Work
  707. This Episode’s Music: Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
  708. There Are No Experts in Philosophy
  709. Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
  710. From Fisherman to Pirate
  711. [New Pinned] Message Board
  712. Classroom Presentation Script on Realism and Anti-Realism
  713. [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables
  714. I Recently Started Writing a Log on the Campus Network
  715. At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation
  716. An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm
  717. This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)
  718. How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper
  719. The Mechanization of “Force”
  720. “The Philosophy of Online Games”
  721. The Labyrinth of Concepts
  722. A reclusive thinker, an otaku thirsty for knowledge (an image test)
  723. My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…
  724. A Set of Questions About Falling in Love
  725. This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)
  726. Keke Forum Lecture 61: Zhang Qiqun, A Preliminary Exploration of the Turn from Astronomy to Astrology in Ancient China—Also on Jiang Xiaoyuan’s Claim of “Political Astronomy,” Which Does Not Hold Up
  727. A Collection of Questions on the Mung Bean Distribution Problem and a Summary
  728. [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 60: “Collapse”…
  729. Supplementary Notes and Self-Introduction Following “Zheng mm”
  730. Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival
  731. [Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese
  732. This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain
  733. Why Do I Need Ethics? — An Unconventional Introductory Book on Ethics
  734. 【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】
  735. The Hard Drive Broke…
  736. Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)
  737. Marxist Human Studies / Text Excerpts from a Philosophy of Technology Class Presentation
  738. The Joy of “Dissatisfaction”
  739. The Philosopher’s “Manifest” and “Hidden”
  740. [Unpinned][Pinned 2] An Introduction to Gu Chi, Contact Information, and Comments and Questions
  741. The replacement of “freedom” by “equality” is the common root of the predicament of modern science and modern democracy
  742. An Essay on Freedom of Speech
  743. [US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)
  744. How I Came to Approach Philosophy of Science (A Whig History)
  745. About My Private Residence
  746. [Spanish] Fernando Savater: “The Invitation to Ethics” —★
  747. ———————————Draw a dividing line———————————
  748. This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement
  749. Violent Sanctions Are a Helpless Compensation for the Limits of Reason
  750. Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”
  751. What Is “Ideal”?
  752. Revisiting the Meaning of “Suixuan”
  753. A Fourth Talk on the Olympics—Assorted Remarks and Miscellaneous Commentary
  754. Re-reading “Big Questions—A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
  755. This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
  756. A Third Discussion of the Olympics: Gold Medals and Patriotism
  757. [Repost] Yali’s piece about Liu Xiang’s withdrawal from the race is quite interesting~
  758. A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games
  759. Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)
  760. A Few Words on “Olympic” — “Olympic Game”
  761. A “Systematic Study” Plan for Philosophy of Science
  762. What Is the Difference Between Philosophy and Natural History?
  763. Thinking of EVA
  764. Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying
  765. Following the Grain and Finding Order: “Li means to work jade.”
  766. Scattered Reflections on Love and Hate During My Retreat
  767. “‘Pen’ Notes” During My Retreat in 2008
  768. Writing Is a Kind of Outpouring
  769. Seven Subjects of Moral Education (How to Do Moral Education?)
  770. A Brief Note on “Wandering in the Clouds” (1)
  771. This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)
  772. [Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong
  773. “United in Hatred Against the Enemy” and “Hating Evil as Though It Were an Enemy”: I Can’t Do That.
  774. A Tour Guide to the Mathematical World — “Two-Dimensional at Home and Abroad”
  775. A Loose Talk on “Reasonable” and “Lawful” — Why Is Violent Revolution Unreasonable?
  776. On BBS’s Suitability for Academic Exchange: Online Forums Should Replace Academic Conferences
  777. On the Fan Paopao Incident
  778. Reading and Freedom (I)
  779. Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree
  780. This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”
  781. [U.S.] Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving——☆
  782. An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)
  783. [U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★
  784. Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom
  785. Only when one can love the whole world and all people can one truly love a single person.
  786. Kantian Ethics and “Anthropocentrism” (Draft)
  787. On the Olympics on the Blogs of Two Teacher Wus
  788. Some of the Text I Posted on KKBBS During My Seclusion
  789. Comeback Preview~
  790. Secluding Myself and Shutting Down the Blog
  791. Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism
  792. Things This Semester
  793. The Inertia of the Bystander
  794. Philosophy of Media: An Introduction
  795. “Love” as the Ultimate Meaning
  796. What Logic Do We Use in Everyday Discussion?
  797. Philosophy of Love: Introduction
  798. Value and Rights—The Ethics of Reification
  799. Text Is Principle
  800. This Episode’s Music: “The Song of Scientism” (Super Star)
  801. The Benefits of Mathematical and Logical Training for Studying Philosophy
  802. What Exactly Does Philosophy Study?
  803. [Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆
  804. What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?
  805. Wishing Everyone a Happy Spring Festival!
  806. The Train Was 7 and a Half Hours Late…
  807. On Feyerabend Quotations 5 (Philosophy, Science, and Language Games)
  808. Sense of Responsibility
  809. Nonsense about “Feeling”
  810. The Difference Between “Argumentation” and “Bamboozling”
  811. On “Feyerabend Quotations”
  812. Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism
  813. The Politics and Jurisprudence Behind the Philosophy of Science
  814. [Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”
  815. How to “Persuade” Extreme Irrationalists?
  816. [Repost] What Is Whig History? (“Whig History” and “Contemporary History,” Whig History of Mathematics and Whig History of Philosophy, and So On)
  817. Singing Karaoke at 17 Mile, 2008-1-16
  818. The Search for “Possibility”
  819. Talking Again About Guo Degang
  820. Impressions and Notes on Heidegger and Schopenhauer
  821. Inner Sense, Outer Sense, Time, Space…
  822. A Tentative Discussion of Schopenhauer’s Spirit of Rationalism
  823. The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time
  824. This Issue’s Music: Elisha’s Smile — from Chuck Brown’s Deep Breath
  825. The 7th Beijing Forum on Philosophy of Technology and the 48th Lecture of the Peking University Forum on History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  826. On “Tian Song: Why Does a Human Animal Drink the Milk of a Cow Animal?”
  827. Relativism and Absolutism Are Birds of a Feather
  828. On “Feyerabend Quotations 3 and 4” (Prescribing Remedies for the Age and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Etc.)
  829. This Episode’s Music: BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Rejoice in God)
  830. Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
  831. Lecture 45 of the Keke Forum: A Casual Discussion of Transnational Research in the History of Science (December 14)
  832. Words and Fragments, Episode 5
  833. On “Quantification”
  834. Tsinghua Philosophy of Science and Technology Salon: What Are Environmental Problems? (December 7)
  835. Reflections on Revisiting an Old Piece
  836. [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology
  837. This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P
  838. In Praise of the Abacus?
  839. Lecture 44 of the Keke Forum: History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science (November 30)
  840. <An Interpretation of the Peking University Spirit> — Lecture Six in the School History and School Spirit Series, “Youthful Peking University, the Splendid Years of Yanyuan”
  841. This Week’s Music: Prokofiev _ Violin Concerto No. 1 _ I. Andantino
  842. Notes from Zhongguancun (1)
  843. Recent Miscellaneous Notes on Life (November 22, 2007)
  844. Whose Responsibility? — An Excerpt from a Case Study
  845. [Repost] Catholic and Orthodox Churches May Be Reunited; the Pope as “First Bishop”
  846. Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom
  847. Words and Fragments, Episode 4
  848. This Issue’s Music: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 881
  849. “Anthropocentrism” and “Pride” as the Root of Sin: A Collaborative Research Proposal
  850. Reading as a Way of Thinking
  851. Lecture 42 of the Science Forum: Science Matters (November 9)
  852. Philosophy and I: The Romance Chapter
  853. [U.S.] Daniel Hausman, ed.: The Philosophy of Economics
  854. [U.S.] Daniel Hausman, ed.: The Philosophy of Economics
  855. [Repost] Triangle Floor (Ceiling)
  856. [Repost] Teaching evaluation is irresistible / Tearing down Peking University’s Triangle Ground, the university says it is only dismantling an information board
  857. Fragments, Episode 3
  858. Keke Forum Lecture 41: Two Kinds of Local Knowledge (November 2)
  859. This Week’s Music: Harmonica Solo: The Dance Partner in My Dreams
  860. [Spanish] Fernando Savater: “An Invitation to Philosophy—The Questions of Life” —☆
  861. [U.S.] Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics
  862. Mathematics Is a Technical Craft… Some Additional Notes on Learning High School Mathematics
  863. The Philosopher’s Basics
  864. [English] John Lloyd, John Mitchinson: The Book of General Ignorance — 200 Questions People Commonly Overlook
  865. Music of This Issue: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  866. A Reading Report on Schopenhauer
  867. [Repost] Funeral Industry Launches Graduate In-Service Training Class; Practitioners Can Attend Peking University to Study Philosophy
  868. [Canada] Sergio Sismondo: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
  869. On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”
  870. Materials: A Four-Person Trip to Chuandixia–Lingshan in May 2005
  871. This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)
  872. [Repost] The CCP’s First Time Writing “Ecological Civilization” into a Party Congress Political Report
  873. On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi
  874. [France] Tony Anatrella: “The Forgotten Sex”
  875. [Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆
  876. [Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners
  877. Is the Struggle Aspect of Contradictions Absolute?
  878. [Repost] Notice of Results for Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Applicants
  879. This Episode’s Music: Azurite (Heroic Age ED)
  880. Is Literature Human Studies? — A Response
  881. What Is “Literature”?
  882. [France] Michel Manson: “The Eternal Toy”
  883. Peddling Philosophy of Science and Technology (III)
  884. Restating Scientific Pluralism from a Classical Starting Point
  885. This Episode’s Music: Bandari: Childhood
  886. I’m Still Just a Child~!
  887. Plans for My Senior Year~~
  888. [Repost] Do We Need a Revival of Faith? (Xu Youyu)
  889. Finally Done with the Interview~~
  890. The Question of Choosing a Secretary
  891. [Repost] Peking University Master’s Degree Admissions Program Directory
  892. The “Exchange Meeting Between New and Old Students” Is Really Depressing
  893. This Issue’s Music: The Wanderer’s Song of Joy from the Arab Song Feast
  894. Bits and Pieces, Episode Two
  895. Pitching Philosophy of Science and Technology (II)
  896. On the Principle of Sufficient Reason
  897. Peddling the Philosophy of Science
  898. On Smoking
  899. I’m out of quarantine~
  900. Ideal
  901. This Episode’s Music: Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009, 6. Gigue (Jig)
  902. Friend
  903. Peking University 2008 Admission of Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Students: Personal Statement
  904. [U.S.] Robert Fogelin: “Walking on the Tightrope of Reason”
  905. On the Peng Yu Case
  906. Doing Philosophy Is Like Building a House
  907. The stock market involves risks…
  908. Three Years of Undergraduate Transcripts
  909. This Issue’s Music: The Season of Love – from The Time Traveler Who Left My Heart in the Aegean Sea
  910. The Rainbow Beside Me
  911. [American] Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi: “The God Particle”
  912. On Certain Matters
  913. Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered
  914. On the Problem of Wealth Inequality in China
  915. On the “Ungrateful Poor College Student” Incident
  916. On the Current Situation of Suixuan
  917. This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement
  918. First Entering Yanyuan
  919. Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”
  920. Cooking, cooking~
  921. Reflections on the Social Practice Project “The Preservation of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism”
  922. Platonic Love
  923. Bits and Pieces, Episode 1
  924. [U.S.] Paul Woodruff: “Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue” (Reverence) —★
  925. At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled
  926. This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music
  927. A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
  928. On Protecting Tradition and What Tradition Is, and So On
  929. The legendary CET-6~~
  930. What Is the Olympics?
  931. On “To Exist Is to Be Perceived”
  932. [Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing
  933. James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
  934. This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope
  935. A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: East China Normal University Second Affiliated High School
  936. A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification
  937. Back in Shanghai~
  938. Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
  939. The Mathematics Circle Series, Hunan Science and Technology Press, June 2007
  940. [Eng] Brendan Wilson: “A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
  941. [U.S.] Dan Brown: Digital Fortress
  942. This Issue’s Music: БРАТЬЯ (Burāchiya) (Brothers) (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  943. Simon Critchley: “Hello, Humor”
  944. Chat Transcript on Marxist Philosophy and New Students
  945. The 500th blog post~!
  946. [U.S.] Robert M. Pirsig: “The World of Fathers and Sons” (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) — ☆
  947. [U.S.] Nicolas Darvas: “I Survived the Stock Market”
  948. [Korean] Zheng Zaicheng: “The Science Concert”
  949. [Repost] Is full English-language instruction in the philosophy department worth promoting?
  950. This Issue’s Music: Pachelbel, Canon
  951. [Eng] John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”
  952. [Eng.] Edited by Mick O’Hare: Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?
  953. [Reposted] The Influence of Color on People
  954. [US] T. Dantzig: “Numbers: The Language of Science”
  955. [ENG] Michael Gregoriou: “Kant’s Curse—A Murder Case of Pure Reason”
  956. [France] Brigitte Labbé, Michel Puech: “A Philosophy Primer for Children”
  957. [English] Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence
  958. “A Peking University Person”
  959. Music of This Issue: “A Torrential Downpour,” from the Belikaden Ensemble’s “Subverting Ireland”
  960. [Eng] G•H•Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology
  961. Yanyuan, Fourth Courtyard (Writing Plan)
  962. [U.S.] Margaret Visser: “All Depends on Dinner”
  963. Today’s Xindao Salon Notes, 09-07-11
  964. [Repost] The Philosophy Department’s 2008 Preliminary Selection Format for Recommending Postgraduate Students Exempt from Entrance Examinations
  965. This Issue’s Music: Spanish Dance (Classical Guitar)
  966. About the Papers I Have Written
  967. [Repost] Peking University’s Graduate Admissions Spark Controversy as More Than Half Are Recommended-Exemption Students
  968. [Repost] Ministry of Education: In principle, university students are not allowed to rent housing off campus
  969. Brief Notes on a Trip to Shanxi
  970. [American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
  971. [American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
  972. Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős
  973. Music for This Issue: Kreisler: Prelude and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani
  974. Religious Language and Its Relation to Reality and Truth
  975. On a Discussion on Teachers’ Blogs: the Criterion of Truth, Pluralism, and Other Matters
  976. Suixuan Has Been Put in Place
  977. What Is So Good About a Philosophy Department? — Written for Parents
  978. Zhu Haijun: Force Does Not Need Acquired Inheritance
  979. This Episode’s Music: Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Organ)
  980. Group research may be worth considering.
  981. Negative Ontology
  982. Repost: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions
  983. Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?
  984. Outline for Discussion on “Religious Knowledge”
  985. This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)
  986. Yangroupao Residence Renamed Winter-Cold-Summer-Hot Residence…
  987. The Poor Supporting Characters… Do You Still Remember These Three People?
  988. A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia
  989. The Starry Sky Belongs to Children
  990. This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
  991. Yilin’s Little Retreat
  992. [Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)
  993. [Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007
  994. [Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens
  995. “Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
  996. This Issue’s Music: Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk (guqin)
  997. [Repost] About Philosophy in Secondary School and Philosophy Departments
  998. A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
  999. The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
  1000. [English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★
  1001. Under Construction… Under Construction…
  1002. This Week’s Music: Sunshine On My Shoulders
  1003. The Mood for Going to a Café
  1004. [Repost] Since April, Various Places Have Been Strictly Cracking Down on the Illegal Terror-Related Publication Death Note
  1005. The Dialectics of Nature Course Taught by the Teachers
  1006. I Don’t Like Meditation; I Like Spacing Out
  1007. Everything Has Yet to Begin
  1008. This Issue’s Music: Prairie Dawn (Morin Khuur)
  1009. Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
  1010. The Eternal Dragon Ball
  1011. The Eternal Dragon Ball
  1012. In ordinary times, one should write more blog posts as an outlet
  1013. Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism
  1014. This Issue’s Music: Orff, Carmina Burana
  1015. Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)
  1016. Lawns Are Meant to Be Trampled!
  1017. This Issue’s Music: Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor for Strings (BWV 1052)
  1018. Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics
  1019. Theory Is Not Merely a Set of Propositions or Statements; A Theoretical System Cannot Be Self-Contained
  1020. Virtue, Reason, and Spirit
  1021. On “the Sublime”
  1022. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: An Interpretation of the University
  1023. This Issue’s Music: George Winston – The Earth – Holding Your Hand
  1024. [Repost] What Do Philosophy Graduates Go On to Do?
  1025. Outline for a Discussion of the Philosophy of Religion: Does the Sacred Reality in Religious Experience Really Exist? How Can We Know?
  1026. Chewing on Pure Critique by the Shores of Weiming Lake
  1027. This Issue’s Music: Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey)
  1028. Are There Hierarchies of Value, Higher and Lower, Noble and Mean?
  1029. Student salons are still worth doing
  1030. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Is Palmistry Materialism?
  1031. Is “Xincai” Being Released Again?
  1032. On Music and Poetry
  1033. This Issue’s Music: Peasant Dance
  1034. The 400th blog post~
  1035. Outline for the First Discussion in the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
  1036. Return to Weiming Lake!
  1037. Ethics Course on the Life-and-Death Question: Second Assignment — On the Value of Life
  1038. Celtic Civilization and Ireland
  1039. In the discussion on the teachers’ blogs: On “the freedom to engage in pseudoscience”
  1040. Useless Technology? — Reflections on Mumford’s Philosophy of Technology
  1041. I Got 100 Weilan Coupons…
  1042. Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
  1043. April Fool’s Day…
  1044. Planting Trees and Reforesting Is Not as Good as Preserving Wasteland
  1045. Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?
  1046. The Classic 28-Inch Bicycle
  1047. Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)
  1048. I am the man who will become the Pirate King!
  1049. The Difference Between Ethics and Moral Standards and Legal Norms
  1050. A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Science Communication from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Scientific Practice
  1051. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: The Dirty Books Sold by the Dangdang Online Bookstore
  1052. On the Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Tsinghua University Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology Salon, Session 61
  1053. On Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Zeller, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis
  1054. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Defining Is Not So Easy
  1055. A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: As Lao Zhao Put It
  1056. Highly Recommend “New Sayings from Peking University” — ★
  1057. First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE
  1058. Reflections on a Japanese Anime Series: Introduction: How Should We View Japanese Culture and Eastern Character?
  1059. Supplementary Questions from the Marx Lecture in the Philosophy of Technology Class
  1060. Jiang Xiaoyuan, Liu Bing: “A Babel of Voices—A Dialogue on the Relationship between Science and Culture”
  1061. [U.S.] Steve Silverman: “Einstein’s Refrigerator—A Different Kind of Story Collection”
  1062. Excerpts from My Reading of Marx in the Philosophy of Technology Course
  1063. Going to Tsinghua to Hear Teacher Wu Talk About Philosophy of Technology
  1064. Philosophy of Science as a Disciplinary Philosophy and as a Philosophical Character?
  1065. On Feminism
  1066. Finally Conquered CET-4
  1067. What Is the Story Behind Kant’s Hundred Thalers?
  1068. [Eng] Thomas Marent: “The Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps”
  1069. [U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein”
  1070. On CCTV Airing a Paranormal Video
  1071. [Eng] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion
  1072. Jiang Xiaoyuan: “Sex Appeal—A Cultural Interpretation”
  1073. [French] R. Shep et al. (interview): “The Empire of Technology”
  1074. [Dutch] R. Hooykaas: “Religion and the Rise of Modern Science”
  1075. [Japan] Naoki Komuro: “For Those Who Dislike Mathematics—An Engaging Reader That Reveals the Mysteries of Mathematics”
  1076. [EN] Frank Furedi: “Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?” —☆
  1077. [U.S.] Stephen J. Pyne: “A Brief History of Fire”
  1078. [English] John Barrow: “Art and the Universe”
  1079. Robert E.D. Clark: “Science and Christian Faith”
  1080. [U.S.] Charles Simpson: “Doing Scholarship Honestly—From Freshman to Professor”
  1081. [U.S.] George Marsden: “Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism”
  1082. Tension Is Harmony
  1083. [U.S.] George O. Abel et al., Science and the Weird
  1084. [U.S.] Neil Postman: “The Disappearance of Childhood” —☆
  1085. [Japan] Yamazaki Shigeaki: Misconduct by Scientists—Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism
  1086. [Eng] Merrill Davis: “Darwin and Fundamentalism”
  1087. [French] Émile Noël: “Darwinism Today”
  1088. [U.S.] Joseph Mazur: “Euclid in the Rainforest—A Narrative Brief History of Mathematics”—★
  1089. [English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”
  1090. [Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”
  1091. Comments on the Introduction to Religious Studies Course
  1092. “The Soul of Science,” “The Dragon-Slaying Saber of Calculus,” “The Stolen Harvest”
  1093. Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto
  1094. The Lamb Stew Dwelling
  1095. Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?
  1096. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
  1097. Kuhn’s Historicism as a Rebuttal to Popper’s Philosophy of History
  1098. How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)
  1099. How Am I a Marxist?
  1100. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Can All Problems Brought by Science Be Solved by Science?
  1101. The Religious Questions I Care About
  1102. The Reformation and the Scientific Revolution
  1103. The First Snow of 2006.
  1104. Run Lola Run and the Age of Games
  1105. The Globalization of Media Culture
  1106. Recently in seclusion…
  1107. Christianity as I Have Seen It & Christianity as I Understand It & Christianity as I Imagine It
  1108. In the Epistle to the Romans, how did Paul understand Jesus’ Passion?
  1109. Similarities and Differences Between Modern Science and Classical Greek Science
  1110. A Brief Discussion of the Popularization of Philosophy (Final Published Version)
  1111. A Very Comprehensive Analysis of Scorpio
  1112. Why Should We Have “Cultural Self-Awareness”?
  1113. Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore
  1114. Film and Television Appreciation Midterm Assignment
  1115. Some Loose Thoughts on “Democracy”
  1116. Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death, translated by Zhang Yan, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004
  1117. What Day Is November 10?
  1118. A Supplement on “Preserving Common Ground While Seeking Differences”
  1119. A Discussion of the Question of Abolishing Traditional Chinese Medicine
  1120. When the Fisherman Meets the Shepherd
  1121. Preserving Common Ground, Seeking Difference—A Pluralist View of Dialogue
  1122. [Eng.] McGrath: Introduction to Christianity, translated by Ma Shulin and Sun Yi, Peking University Press, 2003
  1123. What Is Art? — On Whether “Super Girl” Is Art
  1124. A Frog Metaphor for Ancient Chinese Science
  1125. Actuality and Possibility; and the Question of Academic Norms
  1126. What Do the Mythic Theology, Civic Theology, and Natural Theology of Ancient Greece and Rome Refer To, and How Are They Related?
  1127. Draft of the First Three Parts of Popper’s Essay on the Philosophy of History
  1128. Some Questions from the Classroom Discussion on “Studies of Globalization Issues”
  1129. The Basic Features of Hellenistic Science as Seen from Ptolemaic Astronomy
  1130. What Should “Commodity” Be?
  1131. On the A Yi “Crying Poor” Incident
  1132. On Learning Middle School Mathematics
  1133. The Tautology of “Survival of the Fittest”
  1134. From “Pursuit” to “Demand” — The Idea of “Truth, Goodness, and Beauty”
  1135. The Philosophy of History Is Quite Interesting
  1136. Recent Life Jottings (October 1, 2006)
  1137. Let me post a few earlier photos (the frozen Weiming Lake, heavy snow, a 28-inch bicycle)
  1138. From “Life Is Like a Play” to “Money Worship”
  1139. Nineteen Eighty-Four
  1140. The Guangling Melody
  1141. The Actual Effect of the Philosophy Popularization Display Boards
  1142. In Deep Mourning for Hu Gende: Memorial Service—Words of Thanks
  1143. Grandfather
  1144. Grandpa, rest in peace
  1145. A Casual Repost from Teacher Liu’s Blog on Agriculture, Industrial Civilization, and “Progress”
  1146. On Patent and Copyright Protection
  1147. Revere Without Worshipping, Believe Without Reciting, Transmit Without Teaching
  1148. Stream of Consciousness (Old Post)
  1149. Some Fun Problems, Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
  1150. Selected Philosophical Aphorisms
  1151. It is when the sky is darkest that people see the stars. — Emerson
  1152. Everything Is Unprepared, Yet the East Wind Blows Quite Fiercely—Disappointed Once Again in Education Reform
  1153. A Complete Guide to Buying Books in Shanghai, Beijing, and Online
  1154. Draft Text for a Philosophy Popularization Display Board
  1155. Wristwatch
  1156. Constellations and Self-Confidence
  1157. The Mathematical Roots of Postmodern Thought
  1158. Do Not Forget Popularization
  1159. Spoofs, Media, and Random Reflections
  1160. Better to Be a Hypocrite Than a Real Villain
  1161. A Sand County Almanac
  1162. Brave New World
  1163. Remembering the Observatorium of Gezhi Middle School
  1164. Can You See a Rainbow Over the Sea?
  1165. In Defense of Intuitionism
  1166. Some Interesting Problems, II: To Change or Not to Change?
  1167. You chose it yourself, and you’ll still refuse to admit you were wrong
  1168. God and Immortality
  1169. On “Gu Chi”
  1170. Preliminary Thoughts on “Intuitionism”
  1171. One of a Few Puzzlers: The Three-Person Peach Juice Problem
  1172. A Dialogue on the Fourth Floor of a Building Without a Fourth Floor
  1173. Reason and Ultimate Concern—An Attempt to Examine Why Mature Rational People Seek Religion
  1174. The Paradox of Boring Games
  1175. A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing
  1176. A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up: An Interlude on Games
  1177. A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: Donggezhi Middle School
  1178. To Get Thoroughly Soaked in the Rain
  1179. A Few Random Recollections of My Growing Up: An Interlude on My Hometown
  1180. An Email about “Sociology of Religion”
  1181. Summer Reading Notes, 2006
  1182. Predetermination as Vast as the Sea, Freedom as Small as a Boat
  1183. A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years (Part Two: Cao Guangbiao Primary School)
  1184. An Analysis of “The Half-Fee Lawsuit”
  1185. Long live Italy!
  1186. A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up (Part 1: Before Fourth Grade in Elementary School)
  1187. Kant’s Significance for the Philosophy of Science
  1188. Some Casual Notes Before the World Cup Semifinals
  1189. Application for “Friends of Nature”
  1190. Stray——Wolf’s Rain Opening Theme Song
  1191. A Classified Summary of Reference Works on Science and Religion
  1192. Faith in Science and Finding a Wife
  1193. An Analysis of the “Sudden Drill Paradox”
  1194. My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active
  1195. Defending Science with Religion.
  1196. A Discussion of “Shuangfei” — Reposting an Earlier Article and Comments from Teacher Liu’s Blog
  1197. A Tentative Account of the Problems Facing Contemporary Philosophy of Nature and Its Possible Directions of Development
  1198. Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker, translated by Wang Delun, Chongqing Publishing House and Hainan Publishing House, May 2005
  1199. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  1200. A Survey of the Books I Scored on Kongfuzi This Semester
  1201. When one has not yet encountered perplexity, it is enough to act by instinct and feeling; when one encounters bewilderment, one must appeal to reason; and when one meets perplexities that reason still cannot resolve, one has no choice but to appeal once again to instinct and feeling.
  1202. How Can We Promote Technological Innovation?
  1203. We Should Not Deny the Progress of Science
  1204. From Afar It Looks Like Art, Up Close It Looks Like Religion
  1205. Old-School Peanut Butter Instant Cold Noodles~
  1206. How to Fall in Love with Mathematics
  1207. Science and Judgment
  1208. I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!
  1209. A Preliminary Analysis of the “Surprise Drill Paradox”
  1210. Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions
  1211. Expanded Bibliography on Science and Religion
  1212. Philosophy of Science Assignment 060519
  1213. [Repost][Recommended] Recommended Websites for High-Quality Design Resources
  1214. Preface to the Fortieth Issue of “Gongqingyuan”
  1215. The Spirit of Sport and Human Culture
  1216. Not a Fool
  1217. The Reference Books Related to “Science and Religion” Currently on My Bookshelf
  1218. Demonstrating Chaos with Excel!
  1219. The Expansion of “Matter”
  1220. Ode to Wind and Sand
  1221. A Rambling Talk on Science pp
  1222. Natural History and History
  1223. Plato’s Café
  1224. Modern Science and Religion (Research Plan)
  1225. The 200th blog post~
  1226. Education, Reform, and Egalitarianism
  1227. Philosophy Has Become “Technique”
  1228. If you can’t live without it, can’t you rebel against it?
  1229. [Eng] Peter Singer: “Fermat’s Last Theorem—A Mystery That Puzzled the Wise of the World for 358 Years,” translated by Xue Mi, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, February 1998
  1230. In Memory of My Maternal Grandfather
  1231. Exercises in Philosophy of Science: Chapter 2 (Scientific Explanation)
  1232. Constructing a DN Account of Leopold’s Essay (Thinking Like a Mountain);
  1233. A Disappointing Marxist Philosophy Forum
  1234. Xiao Gu Talks Quantum Physics (Colloquial Edition) — Lecture One: The Gains of Not Understanding
  1235. Human Nature and Human Essence—A Discussion in Everyday Language
  1236. Science—Seen from a Religious Perspective
  1237. Xu Jinhua’s Lecture
  1238. Some Counterfactual Conditionals in the Natural Sciences
  1239. The Religious Views of Great Scientists: Quotation Piling
  1240. What Does Scientific Explanation Explain?
  1241. Further Thoughts on Guo Degang
  1242. On “Preaching the Gospel and Popularizing Science”
  1243. The Thinker Fixated on Expectation
  1244. Causality and Scientific Explanation
  1245. Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit
  1246. Starting with Lottery Predictions
  1247. Colors of the Wind
  1248. Causality, Premonition, Free Will, Paranormal Powers, Scientific Explanation
  1249. The Superstition of Economics
  1250. On Zhang Weiying and Reform
  1251. “A Pitch-Black Void”
  1252. A Scientific Explanation of Rainbows
  1253. Revering Science
  1254. Finding Life’s Truths in Scientific Laws (I)
  1255. Some Reflections on Confucius’s Birthday and China’s Teachers’ Day
  1256. Could It Be That My Article “Gongqingyuan” Cannot Be Used?
  1257. Exercises for Philosophy of Science: Chapter One
  1258. Four Ways of Understanding the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
  1259. I read a crank-science paper… @_@
  1260. G. E. R. Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle
  1261. Medicine and Science—A Reflection on the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
  1262. Liu Huajie: “Not Everything Enshrined in the Hall Is a Buddha” (Including Some Free Thoughts on Needham’s Question)
  1263. Does Life Have Meaning or Not?
  1264. Preliminary Thoughts on Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
  1265. The Significance of Psychology for the Philosophy of Science and Technology
  1266. Brief Notes from the First/Third/Fourth Day of Classes in the New Semester
  1267. The Significance of Mathematics and Logic for Philosophy of Science
  1268. Liu Huajie: “China-like Science—From the Perspectives of Philosophy and Sociology”
  1269. A Few Metaphors About “Drawing Boundaries”—Reflections Organized from My Winter Vacation Reading in 2006 (1)
  1270. Winter Vacation Reading Notes, 2006: Introduction / Conclusion / Contents
  1271. Huang Aihe (Interview): “Drift—The Story of Peking University Scholar Liu Huajie”
  1272. [U.S.] Gerald Holton: “Science and Anti-Science”
  1273. [Austrian] Erwin Schrödinger: “Nature and Ancient Greece”
  1274. [French] Jean Ladrière: “The Challenge of Science and Technology to Culture”
  1275. [U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”
  1276. Wang Hongbo and Ma Jianbo, eds., Crossing the Chasm—Science in a Cultural Perspective
  1277. [U.S.] Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: “Tilted Truth—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution”
  1278. [U.S.] Edwin Arthur Burtt: “The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science”
  1279. A Call for Submissions for “Gongqingyuan”～～
  1280. [Eng] F. Bacon: Essays
  1281. [German] Rickert: “Cultural Science and Natural Science”
  1282. [Eng.] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong
  1283. Noya Keiichi: “Kuhn—Paradigm”
  1284. Two Leisurely Books: “The Shards of God” and “The Universe of Spirit”
  1285. [Fr.] Poincaré: “Last Thoughts”
  1286. Tian Song: “Don Quixote’s Lance”
  1287. It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese
  1288. Jin Kemu: “Candle Flame Ashes—The Melody of Thought”
  1289. [German] Feuerbach: “The Essence of Religion”
  1290. “A Philosophical History of Poetry”: “A Feast of Thought”
  1291. Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”
  1292. A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”
  1293. Fang Zhouzi: “Ulcer—Confronting Academic Corruption in China”
  1294. [Eng] Martin Oliver: “The History of Philosophy”
  1295. [German] Ernst Cassirer: An Essay on Man
  1296. [German] Luckmann: “The Invisible Religion”
  1297. Zhao Lin: “Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion,” Wuhan University Press, April 2005
  1298. Sun Xiaoli, editor: Philosophical Debates on Modern Science
  1299. [U.S.] Tom Rockmore: “Hegel: Before and After”
  1300. Deng Xiaomang: Lectures on Hegel’s Dialectic
  1301. Selected Diary Entries of Kierkegaard
  1302. Zhao Tingyang: “On Possible Life”
  1303. Cao Tianyuan (Capo): “Does God Play Dice? — A History of Quantum Physics”
  1304. A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun
  1305. Some Discussions on Politics and Education
  1306. Ice Skating Is So Fun~~
  1307. On the South China Tiger Incident
  1308. I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)
  1309. Two Marxist-Philosophy Short-Answer Questions I Didn’t Want to Answer by the Book + A Supplement to Short Answer Question 5 in Marxist Philosophy (Part II)
  1310. What Do I “Want” to Do?
  1311. Keep a Proper Mindset!
  1312. The Greatest Root of Nihilism
  1313. “Keyword Fever Syndrome”
  1314. Caution in Speech and Writing
  1315. The 100th Blog Post~
  1316. My View of Life (and Supplement)
  1317. Why I Chose Philosophy of Science
  1318. Philosophy’s Critical Spirit and the “Critical” Spirit of Folk Philosophy
  1319. Under the Same Starry Sky—Kant’s Views on Science and Religion
  1320. Kant: On a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky…
  1321. On the Attitude Toward “Chinese Traditional Values” and “Western Modern Values”
  1322. Kant and Husserl—Scattered Affinities from Reading the History of Philosophy
  1323. The Difference Between Me and Dogmatism or Relativism—Please Pay Attention to the Basis of All My Arguments
  1324. Arrogant Humility?
  1325. Collected Final Exam Essay Questions for the Modern Western Philosophy Course (Combined)
  1326. He Qinglian: “We Are Still Looking Up at the Starry Sky”
  1327. A SWOT Analysis of a Double Degree…
  1328. “I Can Do It” and True Courage
  1329. Annotations on the Analects…………
  1330. Annotations on the Analects…………
  1331. Annotations on the Analects…………
  1332. Pearls and Strings
  1333. Knowing—Thinking—Saying—Writing—Doing
  1334. [U.S.] R. P. Feynman: “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
  1335. I’ve kind of regained the feeling of writing essays in high school~
  1336. Let me explain why this place is called “Suixuan”~
  1337. Heh-heh, an essay from middle school days…
  1338. Is Science and Technology the Primary Productive Force?
  1339. If You Fall Behind, Do You Get Beaten?
  1340. The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity
  1341. Kant’s Space-Time and Hawking’s Universe — Kant’s View of Science and Modern Physics
  1342. Kant’s Space-Time and Hawking’s Universe — Kant’s View of Science and Modern Physics
  1343. The Shortcomings of “Eradicating Feudal Superstition”
  1344. Science Has No Absolute Truth… But Is There Absolute Error? (And a Supplement)
  1345. Science Has No Absolute Truth… But Is There Absolute Error? (And a Supplement)
  1346. What I Want to Build Is a Garden
  1347. What I Want to Build Is a Garden
  1348. I despise plagiarism in academic papers!
  1349. On Fate
  1350. Three Stages of Reading Philosophy: “Seeing Mountains as Mountains”
  1351. The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang
  1352. What makes us human is, quite simply, that only humans can restrain beastliness with reason, thereby sublimating human nature into sensibility.
  1353. The Starry Sky in My Heart
  1354. Remove the dross, keep the essence?
  1355. The Tree of Philosophy [US] Pang Sifen / author Zhai Pengxiao / translator Wang Lingyun / proofreader Guangxi Normal University Press 2005.5
  1356. Silent Wonder
  1357. Silent Wonder
  1358. A Post and My Reply (About Speaking Out Online)
  1359. Supplementary Ideological Report for Party Membership Confirmation
  1360. On “Speaking of Principles”
  1361. Returning from Military Training
  1362. Feynman: Poets Always Say That Scientists Cannot See the Beauty of the Planets—
  1363. Compiled Q&A for Philosophy Department Freshmen
  1364. TV science education is a stronghold for spreading pseudoscience!
  1365. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by
  1366. Constellations, Easter Island, and the Predicament of Popular Science
  1367. The Demon-Haunted World [U.S.] Carl Sagan / author
  1368. Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song
  1369. A Short History of Nearly Everything [U.S.] Bill Bryson / by
  1370. A Letter to First-Year Philosophy Students
  1371. A Letter to First-Year Philosophy Students
  1372. Reference Bibliography for Ecology Philosophy
  1373. Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra for Destroying All Evil Destinies
  1374. Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra for Destroying All Evil Destinies
  1375. The Best Formation…
  1376. Transcendent Amid the Mundane World
  1377. On Looking Down from on High
  1378. Speak Less
  1379. An Introductory Philosophy Paper
  1380. An Introductory Philosophy Paper
  1381. The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy
  1382. My View of the Germination of Capitalism in China (An Article from My High School Years)
  1383. My View of the Germination of Capitalism in China (An Article from My High School Years)
  1384. A Brief Discussion of Political Culture and Social Forms in the Mongol-Yuan Period
  1385. A Brief Discussion of Political Culture and Social Forms in the Mongol-Yuan Period
  1386. Summer Vacation Notes from 2002
  1387. The Grand Unification of Philosophy (an essay from my high school years): Excerpts and Notes
  1388. Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
  1389. Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
  1390. Application for Confirmation of Party Membership
  1391. Application for Confirmation of Party Membership
  1392. Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)
  1393. A Complex of Rain
  1394. Philosophy of the Starry Sky