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Plato’s Café

Life & Notes2006.04.16
Plato’s Café
Lately I’ve been haunting Plato Cafe quite often. It’s a newly opened cafe, next to Wan Sheng Bookstore, on the same floor as Bifengtang. This is a rather unusual coffee shop. To be honest, I’m really worried it won’t be able to stay open. I come here often precisely because of how empty it is—such a sharp contrast to the Bifengtang next door! What does it feel like to walk into Plato Cafe? Hmm… strange… really… it’s almost like a study room in a library! Besides the arrangement of the tables and chairs and the bright lighting, there’s even a whole wall of books here! There’s also…
everyday life culture Plato
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Apr 16, 2006
Modern Science and Religion (Research Plan)

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.16
Modern Science and Religion (Research Plan)
No matter what view one takes of the relation between science and religion, examining that relation is unquestionably an important topic in the history of science and in the study of religion. In today’s age of “big science,” and under the demand for dialogue between science and the humanities, discussing the relation between science and religion has a particularly special significance. It must be pointed out that the conflict and harmony between science and religion are not, first of all, something scholars have gone to great lengths to manufacture. Whether conflict or harmony, they are both real-world issues. Even as a purely objective inquiry, one cannot deny that there do…
philosophy science history of science God
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Apr 16, 2006
The 200th blog post~

Site Matters2006.04.13
The 200th blog post~
2005-07-31 14:45 The first post, “Philosophy of the Starry Sky,” marked the founding of this blog. On 2005-12-29 at 19:48, less than five months later, I posted “My 100th blog post” And again, less than five months later, this is my 200th blog post. (Some posts have been set to hidden by me.) I downloaded Yaku’s “blog export backup,” the size of the compressed package is: 507 KB (519,482 bytes) the text files inside amount to: 2.18 MB (2,294,819 bytes) Here are the word-count statistics (the file contains a lot of English code): Pages 783 Words 599,516 Characters (excluding spaces) 1,704,482 Characters (including spaces) 1,783,475 Paragraphs 6,247 Lines 34,424 Non-Chinese…
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Apr 13, 2006
Education, Reform, and Egalitarianism

Culture & Public Commentary2006.04.13
Education, Reform, and Egalitarianism
A while ago, the presidents of Renmin University and other universities raised the issue that the government’s policies toward Peking University and Tsinghua University are too heavily tilted in their favor. The government’s preference for Peking University and Tsinghua is indeed very obvious, showing up not only in financial support but mainly in the enormous tilt of admissions policy. This tilt in admissions is especially evident in Shanghai’s college entrance examination system: in Shanghai, Peking University and Tsinghua are the so-called “zero-choice” option, separate from the other preferences, with applications first processed for the zero-choice option and only afterward allocated among the others. In other words, you might as well…
culture China education mathematics
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Apr 13, 2006
Philosophy Has Become “Technique”

Philosophy & Thought2006.04.11
Philosophy Has Become “Technique”
Seeing Bohm say that the word philosophy originally meant the love of wisdom, and that now it has become a kind of technique. I also think that our age is deteriorating into reducing everything to various technologies, stripping every thing of its meaning; I believe people have already fallen into technicism…… (The Ghost in the Atom, p. 118) I have long known that Bohm inclines toward postmodernist philosophy, but his words still make sense: do the analytic philosophy and logical positivism of the Anglo-American world not amount to turning philosophy into a “technique”? Although they still retain philosophy’s emphasis on “questioning,” the “pursuit” behind the questioning has been muted, especially…
philosophy analytic philosophy meaning materialism
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Apr 11, 2006
If you can’t live without it, can’t you rebel against it?

Culture & Public Commentary2006.04.10
If you can’t live without it, can’t you rebel against it?
Many people are very disdainful of the so-called “anti-science cultural figures.” There is a very simple piece of logic: those who are always shouting about opposing science are themselves enjoying technology, using computers to write articles, and in no way can they do without technology—so isn’t opposing technology horribly hypocritical? This logic seems pretty reasonable? In fact, it is ridiculously childish. To use an analogy: we depend on tap water every day, but if there is a problem with water quality, should we not point it out and criticize it? Could a water company use this logic—“You criticize tap water, but can you do without tap water? You’re enjoying our…
culture technology scientism tech ethics
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Apr 10, 2006
[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

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.09
[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
[English] 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 I don’t really have much time to read light books, but just then I happened to be back in Shanghai and saw this book on the bookshelf. I picked it up for a quick look, and then I simply couldn’t put it down; I had to read it straight through in one go. It was absolutely wonderful. Although I had already learned something about the history surrounding Fermat’s Last Theorem through other reading, this book is a thematic treatment. It is very well…
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Apr 9, 2006
In Memory of My Maternal Grandfather

Life & Notes2006.04.08
In Memory of My Maternal Grandfather
My maternal grandfather passed away on the evening of the Qingming Festival. Today is his funeral service. My father only told me about it yesterday and asked me to go, which was only natural; my mother, worried it would affect my studies, had not wanted to let me come back, but that was clearly unreasonable. Though I was not especially close to my grandfather, how many grandfathers can I have? My mother and her sisters were not especially unable to accept his passing, because my grandfather had had uremia for eight years, and for more than the past half year his condition had been extremely dangerous; everyone had long since…
everyday life Confucianism death medicine
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Apr 8, 2006
Exercises in Philosophy of Science: Chapter 2 (Scientific Explanation)

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.07
Exercises in Philosophy of Science: Chapter 2 (Scientific Explanation)
Exercises for Chapter 2: 1. Defend or criticize: “The D-N model, or covering-law model, does not elucidate the nature of explanation. If someone wants to know why x occurs under condition y, being told what always occurs under condition y does not elucidate anything.” Science begins in wonder, and science seeks explanation in order to satisfy that wonder. (See textbook, p. 26.) The difference between scientific explanation and the explanations found in “the other trades” of human beings lies in method and norms, not in the object explained. What is called scientific explanation is directed toward “wonder,” that is, the quest for an answer to “why.” So we may as…
philosophy science philosophy of science scientific method
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Apr 7, 2006
Constructing a DN Account of Leopold’s Essay (Thinking Like a Mountain);

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.06
Constructing a DN Account of Leopold’s Essay (Thinking Like a Mountain);
1. Constructing a DN explanation for Leopold’s article “Thinking Like a Mountain”; For the original text, see http://www.pep.com.cn/200406/ca429154.htm 1) Any animal’s survival requires enough food. —— universal law 2) Any animal can obtain food only within its own range of activity. —— universal law 3) If there is not enough food within its range of activity, then that animal cannot obtain enough food. —— corollary of 2 4) If there is not enough food source within its range of activity, then that animal cannot maintain survival. —— corollary of 1 and 3 5) If a group of animals remains stable in a certain place, then there must be a stable…
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Apr 6, 2006

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