Introduction to the History, Philosophy, and Science Conference Handbook

This forum received strong support from students and teachers at various colleges and universities in the Beijing area, and the students took part with great enthusiasm. On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to express our gratitude to all the students and teachers who participated in our forum in one way or another!

Because of everyone’s enthusiastic support, we ultimately received as many as 80 submissions. But in the end only a little over twenty could be presented at the conference, and the remaining articles could not be printed in full either (only abstracts would be included). If we have disappointed the enthusiasm of the students who submitted their work, we can only express our regret……

Although there were so many papers, this forum still did not set up parallel sessions. That is because the purpose of our forum is to build a platform for exchange among students of history of science, technology, and philosophy in the Beijing area, with the aim of breaking down the situation in which there is little communication in the fields of history of science, philosophy of technology, and philosophy, and in which colleges, universities, and specialties are separated from one another. Therefore, we do not want to create yet another barrier, but instead hope to bring together teachers and students from different specialties and different institutions as much as possible, so as to deepen mutual understanding.

With the same concern for promoting exchange, when selecting the papers to be presented, in addition to considering the academic value of the papers themselves, we also took into account the need to give articles from different institutions and of different styles and types as many opportunities for presentation as possible. Articles that were not selected do not necessarily lack quality. No matter how one balances the various considerations, one will always sacrifice one thing for another, and imperfections are inevitable; I ask the students for your understanding and indulgence.

In any case, a one-day conference is always very limited in time. In order to promote exchange among students from different schools, we have specially built a forum website: keshizhe.net. The reviewing work for this conference made use of the Internet for interaction: reviewers appointed by the various schools could comment and exchange views online, and the submitters also had the opportunity to see the reviewers’ opinions or remarks (of course, unless voluntarily made public, these articles and comments are all not public). I hope that after the conference ends, these discussions and exchanges can continue. Submitters can set permissions to make their articles appropriately public, or publish new articles and continue exchanging ideas with other students; those who did not have the opportunity to present at the conference can even showcase their articles in the online forum and spark discussion. Of course, people can also exchange academic information online about conferences, lectures, and the like from various institutions; even more, they can come simply to post casually and continue friendships.

Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.