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Year: 2006

[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”

Philosophy & Thought2006.02.18
[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”
[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: Your First Book of Philosophy, translated by Bao Shu, Contemporary China Publishing House, February 2005 Today I had a lot going on, and I didn’t finish the reading task I had planned. To barely make it up to one book a day, I dug out this tiniest of philosophy books and read it straight through. This book is really far too short. I found its English electronic edition online; the English text is just a little over 20,000 words, and the Chinese edition is priced at 15 yuan. Alas… Still, this book isn’t bad. You can tell from the Chinese title alone (the English title is What…
philosophy book reading notes reason
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2006年2月18日
Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”

Philosophy & Thought2006.02.03
Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”
Roger G. Newton, *What Is Scientific Truth?—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?*, translated by Wu Jike, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, May 2001 I had read this book already in my first year of high school. At the time I found it hard to understand, but reading it again now, I realize that it is in fact a book about the philosophy of science. Its author is a quantum physicist, yet his familiarity with the philosophy of science, including scientific epistemology, history of science, sociology of science, and so on, is quite broad. The author criticizes sociologists of science who hold relativistic social constructivist views, and he…
book reading philosophy of science notes Kuhn
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2006年2月3日
On the South China Tiger Incident

Life & Notes2006.01.08
On the South China Tiger Incident
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=282 Lately it’s felt a bit like repressed feelings have suddenly burst out in one concentrated explosion, with momentum gushing up from the stomach~ Maybe it’s borrowed from Schopenhauer’s stimulation? As for the South China tiger affair, I’d long wanted to say a few things, but had never managed to get them out. Taking the repost on the forum, and riding this surge of momentum, I finally can’t keep quiet anymore. This is a joke post—surely I can see that, can’t I? Of course I can. The moment I saw “reposted from XX forum” and “repost MP,” I knew it was only a joke, and a really brilliant one at…
everyday life internet public sphere responsibility
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2006年1月8日

Year: 2006

[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”

[U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”

Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”

Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”

On the South China Tiger Incident

On the South China Tiger Incident