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- After Academic Fraud, Public Trust Should Be Reduced to Zero: On the Jiang Fangzhou Incident, University Autonomy, and a High-Trust Society
- A Self-Account & Guide (2026 Edition)
- The Blog Has Been Refreshed
- A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism
- The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again
- From “Whether There Is a Mind” to “How to Establish the Mind” — The Broader Question of Heart-Mind Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”
- Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
- Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
- From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
- 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”
- From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears
- Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
- Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
- AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age
- Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
- The whole world has erupted into a shouting match—what right does a museum have to step in and play peacemaker?
- If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
- Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?
- Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Will AI Restructure the History of Science?
- How to Be a Punk Philosopher
- “Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09
- The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks
- Opening Remarks for the Brain-Computer Interface Forum: Interface or Port?
- Let Beibei Become Someone Different from Yang Weiwei
- The Media Matrix and the Livestream Preview
- Email Subscription Has Been Re-enabled
- The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
- The Network State and Its Technological Foundations
- How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New
- The Linguistics of the Life Sciences: From Mechanical Analogies to Teleological Analogies—Preface to the Recommended Chinese Translation of The Book of Life
- In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”
- Museums in a Changing Society
- Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
- Reading: A Bridge to the Future
- Talking About Trump
- On the Left’s Self-dug Grave
- In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?
- The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins
- Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism
- My blog keeps crashing, and I have had enough — I am going to overhaul it completely. While I troubleshoot, the blog may look rather ugly.
- Common Knowledge as Life
- From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture
- The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO
- The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3
- Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed
- On “Fair Launch”
- Has NFT Failed?
- A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
- Memory Replacing Computation—A Review of Stiegler’s Technics and Time
- Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)
- Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch
- The Triple Greatness of the Crypto Renaissance
- Accelerationism vs. Alignmentism, Socialism(?)
- Cultivating a Cultural Atmosphere That Pursues Novelty and Interest — A Review of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
- AI Is Sick; Web3 Is the Cure
- Notes on the “Network City-State”
- What Is Technology? (Transcript of the 25th Session of the Jishi Lecture Series)
- “Metaverse” from the Perspective of the History of Technology — The New Environment of the Information Revolution
- Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution
- Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)
- Commentary on the 2023 Exam Paper for “Media History and Media Philosophy”
- Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency
- Review of Radical Markets: Also on Why the Crypto Movement Should Be Radical
- Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
- How Is a History of Technological Thought Possible? — Mumford’s Historiographical Method as Seen in Technics and Civilization
- On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State
- On Transhumanism, the Logic of Blockchain, and Huawendao: A Dialogue at SeeDAO
- Treating People as People: An Introduction to Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings
- Introduction to “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile”
- Do We Still Need to “Read” in the Age of “Swiping”?
- Summary of the Course “A General History of Technology” (Fall 2022 Semester)
- Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)
- Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT
- The Structure of the Historiographical Revolution — An Introduction to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Unemployment or Liberation? Artificial Intelligence’s Dual Revolution
- Play to Action—On Human Liberation in the Digital Age
- NFT Value Viewed Through The Philosophy of Money
- 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
- Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation
- Huawendao White Paper, Version 2.1.1
- Confronting “Complexity” — A Review of Big Science
- Augmented Reality or Augmented Rationality? The Multiple Ideals of Communication Technology
- NFT-ifying Behavioral Histories: The Return of Value to Meaning
- Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?
- “Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Technology” Course Summary for 2022
- Becoming Citizens Capable of Debate—Commencement Address for the 2022 Department of History of Science Graduation Ceremony
- In Memory of Master Xianglong
- Why Is the Cat Version of “The God of Medicine” Wrong?
- From a Snail Shell to the Metaverse—An Evolutionary Theory of Technological “Organs”
- The “Nonsense” that Scientifically Combats Scientific Nonsense — Preface to Recommending Exposing Data Nonsense
- Heavenly Endowment
- The Science Museum in the Metaverse: Looking Ahead to the Future of Digital Collectibles
- Creating Something Out of Nothing — How the Metaverse Inflates Big Bubbles
- An Interview Transcript on Research Failure
- The Metaverse: the “New Continent” of the Information World
- Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?
- Rebuilding the Threshold—Web3 Is Indeed a Kind of Regression into “Enclosure and Self-Exaltation,” but That May Not Necessarily Be a Bad Thing
- Will AI’s “Xiaowuxianggong” Go Berserk? — “Review of AI 3.0”
- From the Altar to the Forum: The Practical Significance of the History of Science (A Review of Modern History of Science)
- Historical Significance or Practical Significance? — “Science: The Endless Frontier”
- On VR (IV): If Houses Are Square, What’s So Strange About People Who See Squares? — On the Sensory Style of the Metaverse
- Course Summary for A General History of Technology, Fall 2021 (Questionnaire Summary)
- The Cost of Innovation: Another Kind of Lesson from the History of Technology — A Review of The Technology Trap
- Commentary on the Autumn 2021 Final Exam for A General History of Technology and Showcase of Outstanding Answer Papers
- A Guide to Understanding Media: Means Are the Measure
- “The World of Ideas,” “Lyceum”: An NFT Project I Imagined, 2 and 3
- “Investiture of the Gods”: An NFT Project I Envisioned
- Why Are NFTs Valuable? Rethinking NFTs and Tulips
- The Metaverse Is Hyperreality, Not Virtual Reality: From the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution to the Information Revolution
- From BTC to NFT: From Wealth to Power
- Biography of Things (Continued) — Educational Significance, Secondary-School Science and Technology Innovation, and the Bottleneck Problem
- The Biography of Objects: Methods and Significance in the History of Scientific Instruments
- Basic Skills in Studying Philosophy: Avoid Reifying Abstract Entities, Resist the Universalization of Holism
- In an increasingly impossible-to-take-seriously world, an earnest run-in with JD.com customer service
- NFTs and Tulip Mania
- “People Are Ends, Not Means” — A Critical Review of China on the Cloud
- Games and Its Mission
- On VR (3): Some VR Game Experiences and the “Auditory-Tactile Space”
- An Interview Transcript about Zhang Xiaoyu’s Technics and Civilization
- A Course Summary on Media History and Media Philosophy (Spring 2021)
- In the Age of Technology, What Use Is Philosophy? — On “An Introduction to Philosophy of Technology”
- A Few Recent Audio-Video Posts
- Course Summary for A General History of Technology (Fall 2020)
- On “What Is Technology?”: An Interview with China Science Daily
- Freedom of Speech and Social Media
- Bitcoin: Is There Little Time Left for Poor Students?
- “Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?
- The Unification of Information Technology and Information Science in the History of Information — A Review of Wu Jun’s Information Transmission
- The Growth History of the Scientific Spirit and the Unity of Personality
- Bitcoin’s New High Commemoration (II): How Far Are We from the Eternal Bull Market?
- Who Is the Worst in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
- Getting It Done in Advance — The Common Logic of Napier’s Bones and Logarithms
- Who Is the “Computer”? — Starting from the Relationship Between Computer and Calculator.
- A Conversation with Teacher Wu at the Yejiaxuan Reading Salon
- “A History of the Technology and Philosophical Study of Blockchain” Receives National Social Science Fund Grant
- In what sense is “basic science” the cause of “bottlenecking”?
- Is Digital Currency Beautiful? — A Review of *The New Currency War*
- An Interview with China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News on Questions of Science and Technology
- Course Outline: Philosophy of Science and Reading the Original Texts
- Rules for Authorship on Coauthored Papers
- Course Summary for General History of Technology (Spring 2020)
- Why Must Philosophy Be Obscure? — Reflections on a Perfect-Score Zhejiang Essay
- Driverless Driving: Transforming the World Like Automobiles Did? — A Review of “The Age of Automation”
- Hindsight in the Face of Technology—A Review of The Dark Side of Technology
- Can This Really Count as a General History? — The Publication of Extension of Man: A General History of Technology
- A Brief Q&A on Bitcoin Halving
- How to Write Good Reading Notes Assignments
- The “Atmosphere” of Online Teaching, or a New Paradigm
- Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis
- Rethinking Human Nature in the Age of Technology — A Review of Technics and Time 1
- Using Unequal Technology to Promote Equality
- Rumor: Seeking Rationality in an Absurd World
- Elevating the Enemy, or a Narrative Bigger Than the Grand
- The Meaning of “Conflation”: How the Public Can Participate in Scientific Communication
- Viruses: Nature’s Temper?
- “Preventable and Controllable” — the “Flag” of the Technological Age
- Why Has “From One to Infinity” Remained Popular for 70 Years?
- Why Is Innovation an Economic Question? — An Analysis of the Concept of Innovation from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology
- Is Philosophy of Technology Useful? — Applying Philosophy of Technology in Teaching the Philosophy of Technology Course
- From “Information Blocks” to “Blockchains”: Blockchain as a Completion of the Internet
- Is an E-cigarette a Cigarette?
- On the Swedish Climate Girl (The Decline of the Enlightenment Spirit)
- On Backwardness and Getting Beaten
- From Spirit Photography to Face-Swapping Apps: On the Popularization and Abuse of Technology
- Kant on “Not Lying”
- Was There Confucianism in the Ancient West?
- On the Amazon Fire and the Amazon Outage
- My Qualification to Recruit PhD Students Was Revoked (with an Attached Record of Communication with Prospective Applicants)
- Visiting for an Exchange at Jiangsu Province Qinghe Middle School (What Kind of “General Technology” Do Middle School Students Need?)
- The Responsibility of Intellectuals
- Am I “One” or “Many”? — A Review of I Encompass All Things
- Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Second Year)
- Technology and Garbage in a Race
- Suixuan Is Moving
- The “Two Cultures” Debate Is Long Outdated
- Should We ‘Bid’ to Snatch Up Talent?
- Humans and Technology in Evolution—Technology Also Needs “Protected Areas for Diversity”
- Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance
- Salute to the Strivers! — Striving for the Capitalist or Striving for All Humanity? (Comments on 996)
- Who Can Sell Black Hole Photos? Visual China Can, but So Can You
- Upgrading One’s Worldview Is Not So Easy—A Review of Worldview
- Writing Robot: The Conflict Between Education and Technology
- Don’t Universities for the Elderly Teach You How to Play Games?
- From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
- From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course
- A Compilation of Feedback on the Homework for Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
- Is Chinese Studies Anti-Science?
- Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
- How Can Ethics in the Technological Age Welcome the Future? [Fourth Commentary]
- Is Eugenics Justifiable? — A Delayed Judgment [Third Review]
- The Abdication of Royal Power and the Reform of the International System of Units
- The Disappearance of “Grace” — A Second Discussion of the He Jiankui Affair
- “Passing the Buck” Is the Greatest Danger Exposed by the He Jiankui Incident
- Can VR Save Us from Our Smartphone Addiction?
- Viète and the Transformation of Mathematics from Antiquity to Modernity
- AR Glasses and the “Brain in a Vat”
- Review of The Meaning of Science
- On the Backboard — A Phenomenology of Beat Saber
- Course Schedule for the 2018 Fall Semester (Introduction to Philosophy of Technology + Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science)
- Selected Commentary on the Anji Conference
- On VR (II): A Stage-by-Stage Summary of the Gaming Experience
- Newtonian Mechanics and Modern Currency
- Balancing Fairness and Efficiency—Can Smart Cities Solve Beijing’s “Hard Stations”?
- On Shanzhai: On the Advantages of Being a Latecomer
- On Sexual Harassment
- Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Student Comments and Summaries of Each Lecture)
- On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
- The Spirit of Science: Struggle or Harmony?
- Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology
- What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
- On VR (I): The Meaning of “Immersion”
- On VR (I): The Meaning of “Immersion”
- At what “time” do we need to “check the time”?
- History of Science as a Nature Reserve—A Darwinian View of Science
- The First Reading Group of This Semester
- Further Supplement to PhD Admissions Requirements (Actionable Questionnaire Version) [Expired]
- Undergraduate General Education Course: “A General History of Technology”
- The “Entrepreneurial Spirit” That Breaks the Balance
- The “Entrepreneurial Spirit” that Breaks the Balance
- An Interview on Science and Technology in the Magazine China Youth
- The Ontological Basis of ‘Scarcity Makes Things Valuable’—With a Discussion of Why Bitcoin Is Valuable
- Comments on the 2nd Tsinghua Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
- Selected Readings in Philosophy of Science: “Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of the Mind” (Post-Lecture Notes by the Lecturer, by Jalinus)
- The “King of Invention” wasn’t called that for nothing—he was the one who invented “invention” itself
- Selected Readings in the Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “Facts, Fiction, and Forecast” (Post-lecture Notes by Jiepo Qingshan)
- Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (Post-class Notes by the Lecturer, by Yiduo Xiong)
- Selected Readings from the Original Texts of Philosophy of Science: Reichenbach (Post-Class Notes by Zhuowu)
- Selected Readings in Classics of Philosophy of Science: Sample In-Class Questions
- The First Reading Group of the New Semester
- Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science: Introduction
- Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
- Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
- On ICOs: The Future of Stocks
- Less Habit, More Tracing Back to the Source — A Review of The Origin of Everything
- Galileo as an Artist
- How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class
- [A Little Grumble] You Only Realize How Annoying Procrastination Is Once You Become a Teacher
- How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Using the Toilet
- On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
- On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
- How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast
- Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident
- How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed
- How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: An Introduction
- Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]
- Bitcoin: A Layperson’s Introduction
- Blog Update Basically Complete
- Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives
- The Blog Is Being Redesigned
- The Blame for “Health” Scams Shouldn’t Be Put on the Audience
- Science Popularization Should Stand on the Opposite Side of “Innovation”
- Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
- Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
- When Reading Joseph Needham, Do Not “Buy the Casket and Return the Pearl” — A Review of *The Titration of Civilization*
- Is the threshold for “learning” Bitcoin higher? — Also on the Different Levels of Technical Knowledge
- On Political Correctness (I): Political Correctness and the God’s-Eye View
- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage (Postdoctoral Exit Report): Lecture Notes
- Lecture Notes on The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage (Postdoctoral Exit Report)
- Commemorating Bitcoin’s New High
- On Phenomenology (I)
- My Course Plan for the History of Science Department
- The Origins of Technology
- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
- Technology and Exploiting Loopholes—On Alibaba’s “Mooncake Snatching Incident”
- In Memory of Professor Ye Xiushan
- I cleaned up many registered users on the blog and temporarily disabled the registration function
- I Removed Many Registered Users from the Blog and Temporarily Closed Registration
- Is It Worth Building a Super-Large Collider?
- Is It Worth Building a Super-Large Particle Collider?
- Travel Notes from the Xichang Conference
- The knives are really starting to fly and cut people: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Technological Intentionality
- The knife really is about to fly up and cut people: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Technical Intentionality
- A Loose Phenomenological Discussion of “Artificial Intelligence”
- A “Transitional” Work — _Outmoded Wisdom_ (Afterword, Table of Contents, and Selected Images)
- The “Layers” of the World—A Few Words on Pokemon GO and AR
- “Our” Magazine, “Shared” Youth — A Commemorative Essay on “Gongqingyuan”
- Results Obscure Process—”Science Literacy Benchmarks” and Melamine
- When Results Obscure Process — “Scientific Literacy Standards” and Melamine
- I, Too, Will Take a Shot at the “Chinese Citizens’ Scientific Literacy Benchmark”
- “It Must Be Rectification of Names” — Politics, History, and Science
- The Self-Realization of Technology (Outline)
- On Mirrors (I): The Construction of Interfaces
- Internet + Real Estate = Free?
- Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo
- Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
- On Cities (1): What Is a City?
- The Inevitable Path to Decentralization—A Few Thoughts on Bitcoin Hard Forks, and, by the Way, on Central Bank Digital Currency
- On Garbage (1): From Discarded Things to Useless Things
- What Does the Mobile Phone Have to Do with Cooking? — The One and the Many of Technology
- The Structure of the Technological Revolution (Draft)
- Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Meeting (Benxi Part)
- Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Conference (Shenyang Section)
- Natural History or Natural Records?
- On Small-Class Teaching
- The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?
- Philosophical Commentary [Episode 2] “What Nice Weather” (Part I): The True Is the Point of Emphasis
- Philosophical Ramblings [Episode 1]: Freedom Is Like Treating Someone to a Meal
- Philosophical Commentary and Quips [Column Introduction] Philosophy and Life
- Stock Market Musings: Freedom and Stability
- How Should the General History of Science Be Told? — Course Summary for “General History of Science”
- On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course
- Compendium of Recommended Readings for a General History of Science
- A General History of Science 16: The Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
- Lectures on the General History of Science 15: A Special Topic in the History of Mathematics (The Mathematical Revolution)
- Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 14: Science and the Industrial Revolution [Starting Next Week, We’ll Move to a Different Classroom]
- Lectures on the General History of Science 13: Science in the Age of Enlightenment
- Lectures on the General History of Science 12: Discussion Session
- Lectures on the General History of Science 11: Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution [Next Week’s Class Discussion]
- Lectures on the General History of Science 10: The Mechanics Revolution [Class Discussion the Week After Next]
- Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 9: The Copernican Revolution
- Lectures on the General History of Science 8: Printing and the Scientific Revolution
- Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science
- Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 6: Special Topics in the History of Chinese Science
- Lectures on the General History of Science 5: Roman and Arabic Science
- Lectures on the General History of Science 4: Hellenistic Science
- Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]
- Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 2: The Prehistory of Science
- Lecture Notes on the General History of Science (Introduction)
- This Semester’s Course Schedule
- On Genetically Modified Organisms
- Why We Don’t Need BitCNY
- Copernicus and Nakamoto — A Paradigm Shift in the Technological Revolution
- Inner Bodily Consciousness
- Supervisors as the Dissertation’s Imagined Adversary—Odds and Ends on Academic Papers
- A Summary of the Reading Group on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- On CC Licenses
- On Civil Servants
- An Outline of the General History of Technology
- Giving a Talk on the History of Science at Central China Normal University
- Course Outline: A Guide to Academic Research
- Course Outline: A General History of Science
- Bitcoin’s Value Depends on Holding It
- Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology
- Should Bitcoin Exchanges Have 100% Reserves?
- Application Scenarios for Bitcoin Multisignature Technology
- An Introduction to the Historiography of the General History of Technology
- Bitcoin and Mathematics: How Reliable Is Cryptography?
- Exploring the Dark Interstices — A Review of Speculation and Media
- Notes and Illustration Sources for “A Brief History of Scientific Culture”
- On the Historiographical Program for a General History of Science
- An Initial Exploration of Simmel’s Philosophy of Money
- Postscript to the Doctoral Dissertation
- Postdoctoral Research Plan (A History of “Trash” from the Perspective of Media Ecology)
- On the Bitcoin Ban Controversy
- MtGox Miscellany: If Something That Could Be Made Public Is Not Made Public, There Must Be Something Shady Behind It
- The Dark Forest and the Law of Evolution, Thought and Expression — Some Complaints about The Three-Body Problem
- Nandu Media’s “Bitcoin” Special Feature Interview Questionnaire
- Why Won’t Bitcoin Fall to Zero? — Random Thoughts on Bitcoin Market Trends
- On the Question of the Scientificity of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Why Should Young People Publish Books?—Starting from Sounding the West, Striking the East
- Why Doesn’t Bitcoin Fit Gresham’s Law (Bad Money Drives Out Good)?
- Is Bitcoin Environmentally Friendly?
- Art: The Margin of Technology
- Toys, Mirrors, and Art (Reflections on a Seminar and a Preview)
- Some Thoughts on Teaching Assistants for Small-Group Discussion Sessions in General Education Elective Courses
- The Rationality of Whig History and the Possibility of an Anti-Whig Approach
- The Revolutionary History of Media
- Travel Notes on the Lushan Conference
- What Is Wrong with “Eugenics” — A Review of Against Perfection
- A Natural History of Media—McLuhan’s Method
- Bitcoin: Musings on Mining and Altcoins
- Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma
- Bitcoin: The Age of Exploration
- The Economic History of Media—From Marx to Innis
- An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike
- Miscellaneous Musings on Gambling
- Post-80s: The First Generation of Young People in an Age of Twilight
- Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
- Bitcoin: An Endless Scam
- Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
- Human-Centricity or Humble Solipsism? — A Discussion of Whether Heidegger’s Philosophy Is a Philosophy of Subjectivity
- A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition
- Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes
- Photography and Science
- On Page Charges
- On Delayed Graduation and Looking for a Job
- On NetEase Mail, Cookies, and Privacy in the Internet Age
- A Civilizational History of Technology—Using Mumford as an Example
- The First Weibo Post That Got Blocked~
- Updated the Blog Email Address
- The Paradox of Fairness—On Halting Ticket-Grabber Plugins
- The History of Work
- Contempt and Locality
- The Two Falls of the Concept of “Nature” and Nature as “Anti-Normative” in Its Original Sense
- Equality or Freedom: On the Question of Attending School Outside One’s Hometown
- Blog hosting moved to Aliyun~
- Travel Notes on the Guangzhou Conference
- A Supplement to “Media History as Transcendental Philosophy”: The Relation Between Ontology and Epistemology; Nature Is Naturally the Boundary of Technology
- On the Discussion of Intentional History and Actual History
- On Elitism and Esoteric Truth
- Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance
- [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
- 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
- On the Diaoyu Islands
- Media and Morality
- Olympiad Math: The Side Road to the Gaokao
- The Shameful Greek Spirit
- The Whole-Nation System and the Pursuit of Excellence
- Solving Problems and Institutional Reform
- Disasters and Despotism
- Chopsticks and Internet Addiction
- My Book-Writing Plan
- Youth and Politics
- 20120628
- The 1000th Blog Post
- A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”
- Christian Creationism and the Rise of Modern Science
- Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”
- Joining the Party Burdened by Guilt
- Knowledge Is Connection
- Recommended Introductory Reading on Phenomenology: “Studies in Lived Experience”
- The Flush Toilet: City, Civilization, Modernity
- Nature as Raw Meat or Bacon
- Patriotism and Hatred of Enemies
- On Choosing an English Translation of “The Critique of Pure Reason”
- The Left and Right, Chinese Style
- Do the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment
- Brazenly Shameless
- Switched the server back to Beijing dual-line
- The Spring and Autumn Annals Style or Scientific Research? — Is the Mission of the Media to Seek Truth?
- The Philosopher’s Profession, or the Professional Philosopher?
- Satisfaction and Choice—Reading Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants
- Recommended Chinese-Language Bibliography on Environmental Philosophy
- The Distanting and Severing of “This”
- In Praise of “Rumors”
- The Multiple Layers of Technological Embodiment (embodiment, incarnation, manifestation)
- Why Place Ads
- Technical Intentionality and the Unconscious
- The Re-Creation of the World: How Modern Science Came Into Being
- On “Gongqingyuan”
- [Weibo] Earth Hour
- The title doesn’t show up on the blog homepage, but it still exists~
- Let’s test posting a Weibo directly on the blog~
- Western Learning as Substance, Chinese Learning as Application
- Night Reading Mencius: The Traitor Faction
- Democracy Against the People-as-the-Basis: A Debate on Weibo
- The Mediality of “Natural Seeing”
- A History of Technological Thought Between the Legs
- Where Is the Journal Conservative? — A Brief Note on Submitting a Manuscript
- The “Natural Selection” of Technology—A Critique of Levinson’s Theory of Media Evolution
- Notes on “Being and Time” II: “Being and Media”?
- Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules
- Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light
- Black Bear and Virtue Ethics
- The Strong Program of Media History
- Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
- Bottom-Up Reform
- A Second Discussion of Fang Yaohan: Wild Animals and Freedom of Speech
- About Fang Yaohan
- “The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good
- Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak
- Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist
- [Repost] Call for Papers for the 6th National Academic Conference on Phenomenology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
- “Internet Addiction” Stems from a Craving for the “Real World”
- From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website
- “Intentional History” and the Aim of Historiography
- 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”
- Regarding the Third Assignment for Ke Tong: “On Bacon’s Science”
- Love of Wisdom and Patriotism
- Schneider, What’s the Matter with You? Or, on the Thickness of Media—An Interpretation of “The Phenomenology of Perception” 1.3.8
- Cookbooks and the History of Science and Technology
- A Portal for the History of Science and Philosophy? A Library? — On the Future Fate of keshizhe.net
- On Communicating with Extraterrestrial Civilizations—A Snarky Commentary on Jiang Xiaoyuan’s Report
- Second Commentary on the Science and Technology Assignment (On the Revolutionary and Conservative Aspects of the Copernican System)
- Exchange First, Scholarship Second—A Summary of the Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
- Introduction to the History, Philosophy, and Science Conference Handbook
- Politics Is Dispute—Starting from the Smoke-Free Campus
- Mathematics, Education, and Machines
- What Is an “Eduroam-Free Address”?
- Huaxia Mingwang’s hosting failure rate is too high…
- Ye Men Gathering — Archived Old Essays
- Some Replies on the General History of Science BBS in the First Half of the Semester
- Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science
- Notes on the keshizhe.net submission area (and adding a “replies visible only to the original poster” feature)
- Beijing Region Graduate Student Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science Continues to Solicit Submissions~~
- On the First Assignment for History of Science and Technology: Basic Features of Hellenistic Science Seen Through Ptolemaic Astronomy
- Is the University a Public Sphere? — Further Thoughts on Publicly Posting Grades and Publicly Critiquing Assignments
- Arendt Reading Notes
- My New Mobile Device: HTC Flyer
- Revisiting “Natural History” (Natural Science) as a Historiographical Program
- Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
- What Does the Red Cross Do? What Do Public Welfare Organizations Do?
- On “Knowledge Changes One’s Destiny”
- The Difference Between Pirates and Heroes?
- Access Statistics of the History of Science, Philosophy, and Technology BBS Since Its Launch..
- Is High Speed a Good Thing?
- Recommended Introductory Readings in Philosophy of Technology
- The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet
- Why Create Such a Forum?
- Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History of Science and Philosophy
- Call for Papers, Meeting Summary, and BBS Homepage for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
- Why Not Revive Confucianism?
- On Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
- Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
- [Announcement] Starting to Try Weibo
- Some Thoughts on the People’s Congress System
- A Little Commemoration of English Class
- Why Is the Three Gorges Dam Said to Be the Culprit Behind the Drought?
- I Don’t Object to the “Jeanswest Building”
- Utensils and Ritual Vessels
- On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology
- Added a Subscription Feature
- Switched EzEngage to connect with Weibo via WordPress
- The Distinctiveness of China’s Written Culture and Print Culture
- Three Meta-Disagreements with Analytic Philosophy
- Art, Media, and the Space of Meaning in the Interstices
- SCI and Academic Fairness
- A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”
- Why Do We Need Protein? — The Pursuit of Relative Truth
- What Is Democracy? Livelihood? Equality? Democracy Is Article 35 of the Constitution
- Media Realism—Scientific Realism from the Perspective of Media Ontology
- Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin
- [Draft] Several Issues in the Philosophy of Science from the Perspective of Media Ontology—Scientific Method, Causality, and Realism
- This Issue’s Music: “Baba Yetu”
- [Reprint] One Against a Hundred—Those Internet Companies with Few Employees and Many Users
- A Talk on “Copyright” in the Internet Age
- Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media
- Some Thoughts on the Elements of History of Science in the Primary School “Science” Curriculum
- Plugins Currently in Use on the Blog (Updated 11-11-20)
- Music for This Issue: TiawTang (Thailand’s Music in Civilization V)
- The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition
- Switching Blogs Again!
- A Chat Record on Determinism and Free Will
- The Blind Spots of Modern Medicine as Seen from “Double-Blind Experiments”
- Some Thoughts on the Future of Energy
- The Handy and the In-Hand
- What Can Chinese Tradition Bring to Modern Politics?
- A Paragon of the History of Scientific Thought — Dijksterhuis’s The Mechanization of the World Picture
- 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*)
- “Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism
- The Tower of Babel and the Accelerator — Reflections on Ma Boqiang’s Lecture
- Thought, History, Poetry — One of the Explanations of This Version of the Categorical Scheme
- Blogcn Really Does Have Log Review After All
- Initial Setup of the Suixuan Sub-Base Completed
- Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
- Blog Relocation Effective Today
- The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture
- The Capitalization of Technology — Reflections on Han Qide’s Lecture
- Hello, world!
- The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures
- Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry in Biology—Thoughts on Chang Zengyi’s Lecture
- On Reform of the Gaokao Guaranteed Admission System and the Jiaozhou Road Fire
- Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing
- Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”
- The Blog’s Indenture
- Natural History as a Historiographical Program—Reflections on Liu Huajie’s Lecture
- Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
- “Natural History” Should Be Translated as “Natural History”
- Reexamining Medicine, Reexamining Human Nature—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
- “The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture
- Civilization History as History of Science—A Review of Sarton’s Ancient Science in the Golden Age of Greece
- Tradition as the Condition for Creation—Reflections on Dong Guangbi’s Lecture
- Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
- Space and Geometry—Questions for Reflection and Suggestions for Discussion from Teacher Wang’s Lecture
- The benevolent are invincible: some associations
- The Secrets of the Turing Machine
- A Few Words on “What Is Science” at the Start of the Course
- Has the Yiku server apparently moved to the United States? …
- A Travelogue of the Hailar Conference
- ZZ Power Station Quietly Begins Construction / Nujiang Again in Crisis (Southern Metropolis Daily, 2008-03-17)
- Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology
- Theses on Media Ontology
- “Proof” and the Mathematical Spirit
- Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy
- How Should We Understand Why “Proof” Is the Core Concept of the “Foundations of Mathematics”?
- Has Chaos Theory Overturned the Determinism of Classical Physics? (Philosophy of Physics Assignment)
- What the Wang Hui Affair Reveals About the Climate in Chinese Academia
- Why Post Grades?
- Postscript After Grading the 2010 General History of Science Exam
- Answers to the Essay Questions on the Final Exam for History of Science
- The Political Mission of College Students?
- On the New Three Kingdoms and Artworks in the Age of Mass Media
- [Archive] Waiku Blog News
- The Road of the Azure Sky
- A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Media Ontology
- Two earthquake orphans on stage? What are you thinking?!
- Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand
- Doctoral Research Plan (Media Phenomenology)
- On CCTV’s Blocking of English Abbreviations
- Phenomenology Notes 3
- Quantum Mechanics: Did It Introduce the Observer, or Send God Away?
- Phenomenology Notes 2
- Who Has “Politicized” Google?
- Phenomenology Notes 1
- Winter Break Essay V: Love, or the Search for Certainty
- Winter Vacation Essays, No. 4: Green Dam—The Taboo of Eating Beef or the Taboo of Eating Pork
- Third Winter Vacation Essay: Will and Responsibility
- Winter Break Essay No. 2: Relativism
- Winter Vacation Miscellany I: What Is Modernity?
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]
- The Naturalization of Mathematics — A Wordplay on the Mechanization of the World Picture
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-09 [Penultimate Issue?]
- Miscellaneous Notes from This Issue’s Xindao Salon 10-01-02
- The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai
- On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-12-26
- 09-12-24 Walking on the Ice of Weiming Lake
- Grades and Comments on the First Question of the Second Assignment in General History of Science
- Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12-12
- Jottings from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12–5
- Miscellaneous Notes from the Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Conference I
- November 2009 Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Photo Album
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-11-21 [The Next Session May Be Paused Once]
- Media · Sensation · Space-Time — A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology
- Grade Record for Question 3 of the First Assignment in General History of Science
- (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~
- Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-10-24
- Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-10-10 [Part 1 of the Special Topic on “Science and the View of Life”]
- Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-10-03
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-26
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-19
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-09-12
- Communication and Chess
- 09-09-11
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-08-29
- Xindao Salon Will Experimentally Resume on August 29
- Miscellaneous Thoughts on Marching in Step
- [Archive] Einstein on Parades
- What Is Temperamental Compatibility and Scattered Association
- zz Ministry of Justice: Lawyers Handling Sensitive Cases Must Pay Heed to Politics and the Bigger Picture
- [Announcement] The Xindao Salon Will Continue to Be Suspended Tomorrow
- A Cultural History, Technological History, and Intellectual History of Bathing
- zz Sender: SMG Solar Eclipse Live Broadcast Shockingly Absurd Quotations (Repost)
- Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”
- [Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed
- Ji Xianlin: “Ji Xianlin on Translation”
- When the End Seeps into the Process, So That the Means Too Become Ends
- On “Benefiting Others by Serving Oneself”
- zzA once-in-a-century astronomical feast: July 22 · the Yangtze River total solar eclipse
- How to Reason with Emotion
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-07-04
- Solar Eclipse and Ritual
- Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-06-27
- The Problem of Degrees of Freedom in Love
- Langdon Winner: Do Artifacts Have Politics? — Translated by Gu Chi
- Recollecting “Political Astronomy”
- Random Thoughts on Abacus and Numbers
- [Reprint] “History of Science and Technology” Graduate Entrance Exam Questions (2009)
- Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-06-20
- Mirror and Glass: Tactility and Reality (Postscript to “Aristotle’s Tactile World”)
- 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.
- Aristotle’s Tactile World
- Reflections Inspired by Feeling
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-06-13
- A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:
- This Issue’s Music: Jordi Savall: Celtic Double Bass: The Musical Priest / Scotch Mary [Traditional Irish]
- The God of Luck Appeared to Me~
- How wonderful it is to fly through the air and kiss the earth when it rains…
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]
- Notes from Today’s New Island Salon, 09-05-30 [and a Preview of the Next Round of Salons]
- Notes from the New Island Salon, 09-05-23
- The Responsibility of the Communicator
- Contracts and Spells in Love
- Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys
- Philosophy and Poetry
- Today’s Xindao Salon Jottings 09-05-16
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09
- Reading an Einstein Biography
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02
- Latour: Drawing Things Together Class Report
- Reading Notes on “Science in Action” (Prepared for the classroom report on Latour: Drawing Things Together)
- Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25
- Translating “natural history” as “natural history” is also not bad
- Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18
- Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-11
- [A Quick Science Explainer][Repost] Allergic Rhinitis
- On the Original Content of My Philosophy
- Remembering Illness While Ill
- On How to Write a Book Report
- My philosophy lacks healing power
- Speaking of Childhood’s First Dream
- Several Scenes from Childhood Memory: Cats, Rain, Streets, Beads, and Chess
- (Expired) Unless something comes up, every Saturday I’ll be in the window-side corner of the non-smoking area at Xindao
- On “Fate”
- Relationism and the Philosophy of Communication
- [German] Josef Pieper: “Leisure: The Basis of Culture” — ★
- Philosophical Style and Attitudes Toward Love
- Chen Jiaying: The Influence of Translations of Western Thought on Contemporary Chinese Reasoning
- [Let This Stand as a Record] Beijing Temperatures Are Skyrocketing; Today’s High Could Reach 23°C
- About Rainwater, Let Me Say a Few Mystical Things Too; I Haven’t Forgotten That I Am Rain
- This Issue’s Music: Händel Harp Concerto, Op. 4 No. 6 – Allegro
- On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy
- The Moral Law Above My Head and the Starry Sky in My Heart
- Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao
- New Island Dialogues, Zero: Cafés and Scholarship
- On “Tucao” (吐嘈)
- Yu Zemin: “Seeing Europe in Cafés,” Shandong Pictorial Publishing House, 2007
- Bach’s Cantata No. 211, “Coffee”
- zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society
- What Is Questioning? — On the Search for Possibility, Again
- This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”
- [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)
- I Won’t Date in Cafés.
- On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)
- Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007
- A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks
- A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival
- This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.
- How Do I Read?
- Four Readings of “Scholarship”
- JOKER! — The Clown, the One Who Tells Jokes, the Wild Card, the Big Joker, the King.
- The Structure of a Pirate Ship
- What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?
- How Is Scientific Realism Possible?
- On My Research Plan for the Next Few Years—Coursework for Reading and Writing
- Philosophy and Nudity
- Why Do You Read or Not Read My Articles?
- Preliminary Completion of Keyword Addition Work
- This Episode’s Music: Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
- There Are No Experts in Philosophy
- Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
- From Fisherman to Pirate
- [New Pinned] Message Board
- Classroom Presentation Script on Realism and Anti-Realism
- [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables
- I Recently Started Writing a Log on the Campus Network
- At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation
- An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm
- This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)
- How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper
- The Mechanization of “Force”
- “The Philosophy of Online Games”
- The Labyrinth of Concepts
- A reclusive thinker, an otaku thirsty for knowledge (an image test)
- My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…
- A Set of Questions About Falling in Love
- This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)
- 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
- A Collection of Questions on the Mung Bean Distribution Problem and a Summary
- [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 60: “Collapse”…
- Supplementary Notes and Self-Introduction Following “Zheng mm”
- Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival
- [Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese
- This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain
- Why Do I Need Ethics? — An Unconventional Introductory Book on Ethics
- 【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】
- The Hard Drive Broke…
- Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)
- Marxist Human Studies / Text Excerpts from a Philosophy of Technology Class Presentation
- The Joy of “Dissatisfaction”
- The Philosopher’s “Manifest” and “Hidden”
- [Unpinned][Pinned 2] An Introduction to Gu Chi, Contact Information, and Comments and Questions
- The replacement of “freedom” by “equality” is the common root of the predicament of modern science and modern democracy
- An Essay on Freedom of Speech
- [US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)
- How I Came to Approach Philosophy of Science (A Whig History)
- About My Private Residence
- [Spanish] Fernando Savater: “The Invitation to Ethics” —★
- ———————————Draw a dividing line———————————
- This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement
- Violent Sanctions Are a Helpless Compensation for the Limits of Reason
- Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”
- What Is “Ideal”?
- Revisiting the Meaning of “Suixuan”
- A Fourth Talk on the Olympics—Assorted Remarks and Miscellaneous Commentary
- Re-reading “Big Questions—A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
- This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
- A Third Discussion of the Olympics: Gold Medals and Patriotism
- [Repost] Yali’s piece about Liu Xiang’s withdrawal from the race is quite interesting~
- A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games
- Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)
- A Few Words on “Olympic” — “Olympic Game”
- A “Systematic Study” Plan for Philosophy of Science
- What Is the Difference Between Philosophy and Natural History?
- Thinking of EVA
- Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying
- Following the Grain and Finding Order: “Li means to work jade.”
- Scattered Reflections on Love and Hate During My Retreat
- “‘Pen’ Notes” During My Retreat in 2008
- Writing Is a Kind of Outpouring
- Seven Subjects of Moral Education (How to Do Moral Education?)
- A Brief Note on “Wandering in the Clouds” (1)
- This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)
- [Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong
- “United in Hatred Against the Enemy” and “Hating Evil as Though It Were an Enemy”: I Can’t Do That.
- A Tour Guide to the Mathematical World — “Two-Dimensional at Home and Abroad”
- A Loose Talk on “Reasonable” and “Lawful” — Why Is Violent Revolution Unreasonable?
- On BBS’s Suitability for Academic Exchange: Online Forums Should Replace Academic Conferences
- On the Fan Paopao Incident
- Reading and Freedom (I)
- Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree
- This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”
- [U.S.] Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving——☆
- An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)
- [U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★
- Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom
- Only when one can love the whole world and all people can one truly love a single person.
- Kantian Ethics and “Anthropocentrism” (Draft)
- On the Olympics on the Blogs of Two Teacher Wus
- Some of the Text I Posted on KKBBS During My Seclusion
- Comeback Preview~
- Secluding Myself and Shutting Down the Blog
- Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism
- Things This Semester
- The Inertia of the Bystander
- Philosophy of Media: An Introduction
- “Love” as the Ultimate Meaning
- What Logic Do We Use in Everyday Discussion?
- Philosophy of Love: Introduction
- Value and Rights—The Ethics of Reification
- Text Is Principle
- This Episode’s Music: “The Song of Scientism” (Super Star)
- The Benefits of Mathematical and Logical Training for Studying Philosophy
- What Exactly Does Philosophy Study?
- [Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆
- What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?
- Wishing Everyone a Happy Spring Festival!
- The Train Was 7 and a Half Hours Late…
- On Feyerabend Quotations 5 (Philosophy, Science, and Language Games)
- Sense of Responsibility
- Nonsense about “Feeling”
- The Difference Between “Argumentation” and “Bamboozling”
- On “Feyerabend Quotations”
- Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism
- The Politics and Jurisprudence Behind the Philosophy of Science
- [Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”
- How to “Persuade” Extreme Irrationalists?
- [Repost] What Is Whig History? (“Whig History” and “Contemporary History,” Whig History of Mathematics and Whig History of Philosophy, and So On)
- Singing Karaoke at 17 Mile, 2008-1-16
- The Search for “Possibility”
- Talking Again About Guo Degang
- Impressions and Notes on Heidegger and Schopenhauer
- Inner Sense, Outer Sense, Time, Space…
- A Tentative Discussion of Schopenhauer’s Spirit of Rationalism
- The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time
- This Issue’s Music: Elisha’s Smile — from Chuck Brown’s Deep Breath
- 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
- On “Tian Song: Why Does a Human Animal Drink the Milk of a Cow Animal?”
- Relativism and Absolutism Are Birds of a Feather
- On “Feyerabend Quotations 3 and 4” (Prescribing Remedies for the Age and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Etc.)
- This Episode’s Music: BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Rejoice in God)
- Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
- Lecture 45 of the Keke Forum: A Casual Discussion of Transnational Research in the History of Science (December 14)
- Words and Fragments, Episode 5
- On “Quantification”
- Tsinghua Philosophy of Science and Technology Salon: What Are Environmental Problems? (December 7)
- Reflections on Revisiting an Old Piece
- [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology
- This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P
- In Praise of the Abacus?
- Lecture 44 of the Keke Forum: History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science (November 30)
- <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”
- This Week’s Music: Prokofiev _ Violin Concerto No. 1 _ I. Andantino
- Notes from Zhongguancun (1)
- Recent Miscellaneous Notes on Life (November 22, 2007)
- Whose Responsibility? — An Excerpt from a Case Study
- [Repost] Catholic and Orthodox Churches May Be Reunited; the Pope as “First Bishop”
- Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom
- Words and Fragments, Episode 4
- This Issue’s Music: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 881
- “Anthropocentrism” and “Pride” as the Root of Sin: A Collaborative Research Proposal
- Reading as a Way of Thinking
- Lecture 42 of the Science Forum: Science Matters (November 9)
- Philosophy and I: The Romance Chapter
- [U.S.] Daniel Hausman, ed.: The Philosophy of Economics
- [U.S.] Daniel Hausman, ed.: The Philosophy of Economics
- [Repost] Triangle Floor (Ceiling)
- [Repost] Teaching evaluation is irresistible / Tearing down Peking University’s Triangle Ground, the university says it is only dismantling an information board
- Fragments, Episode 3
- Keke Forum Lecture 41: Two Kinds of Local Knowledge (November 2)
- This Week’s Music: Harmonica Solo: The Dance Partner in My Dreams
- [Spanish] Fernando Savater: “An Invitation to Philosophy—The Questions of Life” —☆
- [U.S.] Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics
- Mathematics Is a Technical Craft… Some Additional Notes on Learning High School Mathematics
- The Philosopher’s Basics
- [English] John Lloyd, John Mitchinson: The Book of General Ignorance — 200 Questions People Commonly Overlook
- Music of This Issue: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
- A Reading Report on Schopenhauer
- [Repost] Funeral Industry Launches Graduate In-Service Training Class; Practitioners Can Attend Peking University to Study Philosophy
- [Canada] Sergio Sismondo: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
- On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”
- Materials: A Four-Person Trip to Chuandixia–Lingshan in May 2005
- This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)
- [Repost] The CCP’s First Time Writing “Ecological Civilization” into a Party Congress Political Report
- On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi
- [France] Tony Anatrella: “The Forgotten Sex”
- [Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆
- [Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners
- Is the Struggle Aspect of Contradictions Absolute?
- [Repost] Notice of Results for Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Applicants
- This Episode’s Music: Azurite (Heroic Age ED)
- Is Literature Human Studies? — A Response
- What Is “Literature”?
- [France] Michel Manson: “The Eternal Toy”
- Peddling Philosophy of Science and Technology (III)
- Restating Scientific Pluralism from a Classical Starting Point
- This Episode’s Music: Bandari: Childhood
- I’m Still Just a Child~!
- Plans for My Senior Year~~
- [Repost] Do We Need a Revival of Faith? (Xu Youyu)
- Finally Done with the Interview~~
- The Question of Choosing a Secretary
- [Repost] Peking University Master’s Degree Admissions Program Directory
- The “Exchange Meeting Between New and Old Students” Is Really Depressing
- This Issue’s Music: The Wanderer’s Song of Joy from the Arab Song Feast
- Bits and Pieces, Episode Two
- Pitching Philosophy of Science and Technology (II)
- On the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- Peddling the Philosophy of Science
- On Smoking
- I’m out of quarantine~
- Ideal
- This Episode’s Music: Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009, 6. Gigue (Jig)
- Friend
- Peking University 2008 Admission of Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Students: Personal Statement
- [U.S.] Robert Fogelin: “Walking on the Tightrope of Reason”
- On the Peng Yu Case
- Doing Philosophy Is Like Building a House
- The stock market involves risks…
- Three Years of Undergraduate Transcripts
- This Issue’s Music: The Season of Love – from The Time Traveler Who Left My Heart in the Aegean Sea
- The Rainbow Beside Me
- [American] Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi: “The God Particle”
- On Certain Matters
- Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered
- On the Problem of Wealth Inequality in China
- On the “Ungrateful Poor College Student” Incident
- On the Current Situation of Suixuan
- This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement
- First Entering Yanyuan
- Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”
- Cooking, cooking~
- Reflections on the Social Practice Project “The Preservation of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism”
- Platonic Love
- Bits and Pieces, Episode 1
- [U.S.] Paul Woodruff: “Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue” (Reverence) —★
- At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled
- This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music
- A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
- On Protecting Tradition and What Tradition Is, and So On
- The legendary CET-6~~
- What Is the Olympics?
- On “To Exist Is to Be Perceived”
- [Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing
- James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope
- A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: East China Normal University Second Affiliated High School
- A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification
- Back in Shanghai~
- Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
- The Mathematics Circle Series, Hunan Science and Technology Press, June 2007
- [Eng] Brendan Wilson: “A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
- [U.S.] Dan Brown: Digital Fortress
- This Issue’s Music: БРАТЬЯ (Burāchiya) (Brothers) (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Simon Critchley: “Hello, Humor”
- Chat Transcript on Marxist Philosophy and New Students
- The 500th blog post~!
- [U.S.] Robert M. Pirsig: “The World of Fathers and Sons” (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) — ☆
- [U.S.] Nicolas Darvas: “I Survived the Stock Market”
- [Korean] Zheng Zaicheng: “The Science Concert”
- [Repost] Is full English-language instruction in the philosophy department worth promoting?
- This Issue’s Music: Pachelbel, Canon
- [Eng] John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”
- [Eng.] Edited by Mick O’Hare: Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?
- [Reposted] The Influence of Color on People
- [US] T. Dantzig: “Numbers: The Language of Science”
- [ENG] Michael Gregoriou: “Kant’s Curse—A Murder Case of Pure Reason”
- [France] Brigitte Labbé, Michel Puech: “A Philosophy Primer for Children”
- [English] Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence
- “A Peking University Person”
- Music of This Issue: “A Torrential Downpour,” from the Belikaden Ensemble’s “Subverting Ireland”
- [Eng] G•H•Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology
- Yanyuan, Fourth Courtyard (Writing Plan)
- [U.S.] Margaret Visser: “All Depends on Dinner”
- Today’s Xindao Salon Notes, 09-07-11
- [Repost] The Philosophy Department’s 2008 Preliminary Selection Format for Recommending Postgraduate Students Exempt from Entrance Examinations
- This Issue’s Music: Spanish Dance (Classical Guitar)
- About the Papers I Have Written
- [Repost] Peking University’s Graduate Admissions Spark Controversy as More Than Half Are Recommended-Exemption Students
- [Repost] Ministry of Education: In principle, university students are not allowed to rent housing off campus
- Brief Notes on a Trip to Shanxi
- [American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
- [American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
- Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős
- Music for This Issue: Kreisler: Prelude and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani
- Religious Language and Its Relation to Reality and Truth
- On a Discussion on Teachers’ Blogs: the Criterion of Truth, Pluralism, and Other Matters
- Suixuan Has Been Put in Place
- What Is So Good About a Philosophy Department? — Written for Parents
- Zhu Haijun: Force Does Not Need Acquired Inheritance
- This Episode’s Music: Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Organ)
- Group research may be worth considering.
- Negative Ontology
- Repost: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions
- Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?
- Outline for Discussion on “Religious Knowledge”
- This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)
- Yangroupao Residence Renamed Winter-Cold-Summer-Hot Residence…
- The Poor Supporting Characters… Do You Still Remember These Three People?
- A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia
- The Starry Sky Belongs to Children
- This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
- Yilin’s Little Retreat
- [Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)
- [Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007
- [Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens
- “Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
- This Issue’s Music: Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk (guqin)
- [Repost] About Philosophy in Secondary School and Philosophy Departments
- A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
- The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
- [English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★
- Under Construction… Under Construction…
- This Week’s Music: Sunshine On My Shoulders
- The Mood for Going to a Café
- [Repost] Since April, Various Places Have Been Strictly Cracking Down on the Illegal Terror-Related Publication Death Note
- The Dialectics of Nature Course Taught by the Teachers
- I Don’t Like Meditation; I Like Spacing Out
- Everything Has Yet to Begin
- This Issue’s Music: Prairie Dawn (Morin Khuur)
- Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
- The Eternal Dragon Ball
- The Eternal Dragon Ball
- In ordinary times, one should write more blog posts as an outlet
- Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism
- This Issue’s Music: Orff, Carmina Burana
- Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)
- Lawns Are Meant to Be Trampled!
- This Issue’s Music: Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor for Strings (BWV 1052)
- Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics
- Theory Is Not Merely a Set of Propositions or Statements; A Theoretical System Cannot Be Self-Contained
- Virtue, Reason, and Spirit
- On “the Sublime”
- On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: An Interpretation of the University
- This Issue’s Music: George Winston – The Earth – Holding Your Hand
- [Repost] What Do Philosophy Graduates Go On to Do?
- Outline for a Discussion of the Philosophy of Religion: Does the Sacred Reality in Religious Experience Really Exist? How Can We Know?
- Chewing on Pure Critique by the Shores of Weiming Lake
- This Issue’s Music: Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey)
- Are There Hierarchies of Value, Higher and Lower, Noble and Mean?
- Student salons are still worth doing
- On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Is Palmistry Materialism?
- Is “Xincai” Being Released Again?
- On Music and Poetry
- This Issue’s Music: Peasant Dance
- The 400th blog post~
- Outline for the First Discussion in the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
- Return to Weiming Lake!
- Ethics Course on the Life-and-Death Question: Second Assignment — On the Value of Life
- Celtic Civilization and Ireland
- In the discussion on the teachers’ blogs: On “the freedom to engage in pseudoscience”
- Useless Technology? — Reflections on Mumford’s Philosophy of Technology
- I Got 100 Weilan Coupons…
- Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
- April Fool’s Day…
- Planting Trees and Reforesting Is Not as Good as Preserving Wasteland
- Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?
- The Classic 28-Inch Bicycle
- Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)
- I am the man who will become the Pirate King!
- The Difference Between Ethics and Moral Standards and Legal Norms
- A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Science Communication from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Scientific Practice
- On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: The Dirty Books Sold by the Dangdang Online Bookstore
- On the Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Tsinghua University Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology Salon, Session 61
- On Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Zeller, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis
- On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Defining Is Not So Easy
- A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: As Lao Zhao Put It
- Highly Recommend “New Sayings from Peking University” — ★
- First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE
- Reflections on a Japanese Anime Series: Introduction: How Should We View Japanese Culture and Eastern Character?
- Supplementary Questions from the Marx Lecture in the Philosophy of Technology Class
- Jiang Xiaoyuan, Liu Bing: “A Babel of Voices—A Dialogue on the Relationship between Science and Culture”
- [U.S.] Steve Silverman: “Einstein’s Refrigerator—A Different Kind of Story Collection”
- Excerpts from My Reading of Marx in the Philosophy of Technology Course
- Going to Tsinghua to Hear Teacher Wu Talk About Philosophy of Technology
- Philosophy of Science as a Disciplinary Philosophy and as a Philosophical Character?
- On Feminism
- Finally Conquered CET-4
- What Is the Story Behind Kant’s Hundred Thalers?
- [Eng] Thomas Marent: “The Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps”
- [U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein”
- On CCTV Airing a Paranormal Video
- [Eng] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion
- Jiang Xiaoyuan: “Sex Appeal—A Cultural Interpretation”
- [French] R. Shep et al. (interview): “The Empire of Technology”
- [Dutch] R. Hooykaas: “Religion and the Rise of Modern Science”
- [Japan] Naoki Komuro: “For Those Who Dislike Mathematics—An Engaging Reader That Reveals the Mysteries of Mathematics”
- [EN] Frank Furedi: “Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?” —☆
- [U.S.] Stephen J. Pyne: “A Brief History of Fire”
- [English] John Barrow: “Art and the Universe”
- Robert E.D. Clark: “Science and Christian Faith”
- [U.S.] Charles Simpson: “Doing Scholarship Honestly—From Freshman to Professor”
- [U.S.] George Marsden: “Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism”
- Tension Is Harmony
- [U.S.] George O. Abel et al., Science and the Weird
- [U.S.] Neil Postman: “The Disappearance of Childhood” —☆
- [Japan] Yamazaki Shigeaki: Misconduct by Scientists—Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism
- [Eng] Merrill Davis: “Darwin and Fundamentalism”
- [French] Émile Noël: “Darwinism Today”
- [U.S.] Joseph Mazur: “Euclid in the Rainforest—A Narrative Brief History of Mathematics”—★
- [English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”
- [Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”
- Comments on the Introduction to Religious Studies Course
- “The Soul of Science,” “The Dragon-Slaying Saber of Calculus,” “The Stolen Harvest”
- Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto
- The Lamb Stew Dwelling
- Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
- Kuhn’s Historicism as a Rebuttal to Popper’s Philosophy of History
- How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)
- How Am I a Marxist?
- On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Can All Problems Brought by Science Be Solved by Science?
- The Religious Questions I Care About
- The Reformation and the Scientific Revolution
- The First Snow of 2006.
- Run Lola Run and the Age of Games
- The Globalization of Media Culture
- Recently in seclusion…
- Christianity as I Have Seen It & Christianity as I Understand It & Christianity as I Imagine It
- In the Epistle to the Romans, how did Paul understand Jesus’ Passion?
- Similarities and Differences Between Modern Science and Classical Greek Science
- A Brief Discussion of the Popularization of Philosophy (Final Published Version)
- A Very Comprehensive Analysis of Scorpio
- Why Should We Have “Cultural Self-Awareness”?
- Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore
- Film and Television Appreciation Midterm Assignment
- Some Loose Thoughts on “Democracy”
- Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death, translated by Zhang Yan, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004
- What Day Is November 10?
- A Supplement on “Preserving Common Ground While Seeking Differences”
- A Discussion of the Question of Abolishing Traditional Chinese Medicine
- When the Fisherman Meets the Shepherd
- Preserving Common Ground, Seeking Difference—A Pluralist View of Dialogue
- [Eng.] McGrath: Introduction to Christianity, translated by Ma Shulin and Sun Yi, Peking University Press, 2003
- What Is Art? — On Whether “Super Girl” Is Art
- A Frog Metaphor for Ancient Chinese Science
- Actuality and Possibility; and the Question of Academic Norms
- What Do the Mythic Theology, Civic Theology, and Natural Theology of Ancient Greece and Rome Refer To, and How Are They Related?
- Draft of the First Three Parts of Popper’s Essay on the Philosophy of History
- Some Questions from the Classroom Discussion on “Studies of Globalization Issues”
- The Basic Features of Hellenistic Science as Seen from Ptolemaic Astronomy
- What Should “Commodity” Be?
- On the A Yi “Crying Poor” Incident
- On Learning Middle School Mathematics
- The Tautology of “Survival of the Fittest”
- From “Pursuit” to “Demand” — The Idea of “Truth, Goodness, and Beauty”
- The Philosophy of History Is Quite Interesting
- Recent Life Jottings (October 1, 2006)
- Let me post a few earlier photos (the frozen Weiming Lake, heavy snow, a 28-inch bicycle)
- From “Life Is Like a Play” to “Money Worship”
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The Guangling Melody
- The Actual Effect of the Philosophy Popularization Display Boards
- In Deep Mourning for Hu Gende: Memorial Service—Words of Thanks
- Grandfather
- Grandpa, rest in peace
- A Casual Repost from Teacher Liu’s Blog on Agriculture, Industrial Civilization, and “Progress”
- On Patent and Copyright Protection
- Revere Without Worshipping, Believe Without Reciting, Transmit Without Teaching
- Stream of Consciousness (Old Post)
- Some Fun Problems, Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
- Selected Philosophical Aphorisms
- It is when the sky is darkest that people see the stars. — Emerson
- Everything Is Unprepared, Yet the East Wind Blows Quite Fiercely—Disappointed Once Again in Education Reform
- A Complete Guide to Buying Books in Shanghai, Beijing, and Online
- Draft Text for a Philosophy Popularization Display Board
- Wristwatch
- Constellations and Self-Confidence
- The Mathematical Roots of Postmodern Thought
- Do Not Forget Popularization
- Spoofs, Media, and Random Reflections
- Better to Be a Hypocrite Than a Real Villain
- A Sand County Almanac
- Brave New World
- Remembering the Observatorium of Gezhi Middle School
- Can You See a Rainbow Over the Sea?
- In Defense of Intuitionism
- Some Interesting Problems, II: To Change or Not to Change?
- You chose it yourself, and you’ll still refuse to admit you were wrong
- God and Immortality
- On “Gu Chi”
- Preliminary Thoughts on “Intuitionism”
- One of a Few Puzzlers: The Three-Person Peach Juice Problem
- A Dialogue on the Fourth Floor of a Building Without a Fourth Floor
- Reason and Ultimate Concern—An Attempt to Examine Why Mature Rational People Seek Religion
- The Paradox of Boring Games
- A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing
- A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up: An Interlude on Games
- A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: Donggezhi Middle School
- To Get Thoroughly Soaked in the Rain
- A Few Random Recollections of My Growing Up: An Interlude on My Hometown
- An Email about “Sociology of Religion”
- Summer Reading Notes, 2006
- Predetermination as Vast as the Sea, Freedom as Small as a Boat
- A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years (Part Two: Cao Guangbiao Primary School)
- An Analysis of “The Half-Fee Lawsuit”
- Long live Italy!
- A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up (Part 1: Before Fourth Grade in Elementary School)
- Kant’s Significance for the Philosophy of Science
- Some Casual Notes Before the World Cup Semifinals
- Application for “Friends of Nature”
- Stray——Wolf’s Rain Opening Theme Song
- A Classified Summary of Reference Works on Science and Religion
- Faith in Science and Finding a Wife
- An Analysis of the “Sudden Drill Paradox”
- My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active
- Defending Science with Religion.
- A Discussion of “Shuangfei” — Reposting an Earlier Article and Comments from Teacher Liu’s Blog
- A Tentative Account of the Problems Facing Contemporary Philosophy of Nature and Its Possible Directions of Development
- Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker, translated by Wang Delun, Chongqing Publishing House and Hainan Publishing House, May 2005
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- A Survey of the Books I Scored on Kongfuzi This Semester
- 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.
- How Can We Promote Technological Innovation?
- We Should Not Deny the Progress of Science
- From Afar It Looks Like Art, Up Close It Looks Like Religion
- Old-School Peanut Butter Instant Cold Noodles~
- How to Fall in Love with Mathematics
- Science and Judgment
- I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!
- A Preliminary Analysis of the “Surprise Drill Paradox”
- Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions
- Expanded Bibliography on Science and Religion
- Philosophy of Science Assignment 060519
- [Repost][Recommended] Recommended Websites for High-Quality Design Resources
- Preface to the Fortieth Issue of “Gongqingyuan”
- The Spirit of Sport and Human Culture
- Not a Fool
- The Reference Books Related to “Science and Religion” Currently on My Bookshelf
- Demonstrating Chaos with Excel!
- The Expansion of “Matter”
- Ode to Wind and Sand
- A Rambling Talk on Science pp
- Natural History and History
- Plato’s Café
- Modern Science and Religion (Research Plan)
- The 200th blog post~
- Education, Reform, and Egalitarianism
- Philosophy Has Become “Technique”
- If you can’t live without it, can’t you rebel against it?
- [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
- In Memory of My Maternal Grandfather
- Exercises in Philosophy of Science: Chapter 2 (Scientific Explanation)
- Constructing a DN Account of Leopold’s Essay (Thinking Like a Mountain);
- A Disappointing Marxist Philosophy Forum
- Xiao Gu Talks Quantum Physics (Colloquial Edition) — Lecture One: The Gains of Not Understanding
- Human Nature and Human Essence—A Discussion in Everyday Language
- Science—Seen from a Religious Perspective
- Xu Jinhua’s Lecture
- Some Counterfactual Conditionals in the Natural Sciences
- The Religious Views of Great Scientists: Quotation Piling
- What Does Scientific Explanation Explain?
- Further Thoughts on Guo Degang
- On “Preaching the Gospel and Popularizing Science”
- The Thinker Fixated on Expectation
- Causality and Scientific Explanation
- Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit
- Starting with Lottery Predictions
- Colors of the Wind
- Causality, Premonition, Free Will, Paranormal Powers, Scientific Explanation
- The Superstition of Economics
- On Zhang Weiying and Reform
- “A Pitch-Black Void”
- A Scientific Explanation of Rainbows
- Revering Science
- Finding Life’s Truths in Scientific Laws (I)
- Some Reflections on Confucius’s Birthday and China’s Teachers’ Day
- Could It Be That My Article “Gongqingyuan” Cannot Be Used?
- Exercises for Philosophy of Science: Chapter One
- Four Ways of Understanding the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
- I read a crank-science paper… @_@
- G. E. R. Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle
- Medicine and Science—A Reflection on the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
- Liu Huajie: “Not Everything Enshrined in the Hall Is a Buddha” (Including Some Free Thoughts on Needham’s Question)
- Does Life Have Meaning or Not?
- Preliminary Thoughts on Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
- The Significance of Psychology for the Philosophy of Science and Technology
- Brief Notes from the First/Third/Fourth Day of Classes in the New Semester
- The Significance of Mathematics and Logic for Philosophy of Science
- Liu Huajie: “China-like Science—From the Perspectives of Philosophy and Sociology”
- A Few Metaphors About “Drawing Boundaries”—Reflections Organized from My Winter Vacation Reading in 2006 (1)
- Winter Vacation Reading Notes, 2006: Introduction / Conclusion / Contents
- Huang Aihe (Interview): “Drift—The Story of Peking University Scholar Liu Huajie”
- [U.S.] Gerald Holton: “Science and Anti-Science”
- [Austrian] Erwin Schrödinger: “Nature and Ancient Greece”
- [French] Jean Ladrière: “The Challenge of Science and Technology to Culture”
- [U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”
- Wang Hongbo and Ma Jianbo, eds., Crossing the Chasm—Science in a Cultural Perspective
- [U.S.] Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: “Tilted Truth—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution”
- [U.S.] Edwin Arthur Burtt: “The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science”
- A Call for Submissions for “Gongqingyuan”~~
- [Eng] F. Bacon: Essays
- [German] Rickert: “Cultural Science and Natural Science”
- [Eng.] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong
- Noya Keiichi: “Kuhn—Paradigm”
- Two Leisurely Books: “The Shards of God” and “The Universe of Spirit”
- [Fr.] Poincaré: “Last Thoughts”
- Tian Song: “Don Quixote’s Lance”
- It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese
- Jin Kemu: “Candle Flame Ashes—The Melody of Thought”
- [German] Feuerbach: “The Essence of Religion”
- “A Philosophical History of Poetry”: “A Feast of Thought”
- Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”
- A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”
- Fang Zhouzi: “Ulcer—Confronting Academic Corruption in China”
- [Eng] Martin Oliver: “The History of Philosophy”
- [German] Ernst Cassirer: An Essay on Man
- [German] Luckmann: “The Invisible Religion”
- Zhao Lin: “Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion,” Wuhan University Press, April 2005
- Sun Xiaoli, editor: Philosophical Debates on Modern Science
- [U.S.] Tom Rockmore: “Hegel: Before and After”
- Deng Xiaomang: Lectures on Hegel’s Dialectic
- Selected Diary Entries of Kierkegaard
- Zhao Tingyang: “On Possible Life”
- Cao Tianyuan (Capo): “Does God Play Dice? — A History of Quantum Physics”
- A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun
- Some Discussions on Politics and Education
- Ice Skating Is So Fun~~
- On the South China Tiger Incident
- I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)
- 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)
- What Do I “Want” to Do?
- Keep a Proper Mindset!
- The Greatest Root of Nihilism
- “Keyword Fever Syndrome”
- Caution in Speech and Writing
- The 100th Blog Post~
- My View of Life (and Supplement)
- Why I Chose Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy’s Critical Spirit and the “Critical” Spirit of Folk Philosophy
- Under the Same Starry Sky—Kant’s Views on Science and Religion
- Kant: On a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky…
- On the Attitude Toward “Chinese Traditional Values” and “Western Modern Values”
- Kant and Husserl—Scattered Affinities from Reading the History of Philosophy
- The Difference Between Me and Dogmatism or Relativism—Please Pay Attention to the Basis of All My Arguments
- Arrogant Humility?
- Collected Final Exam Essay Questions for the Modern Western Philosophy Course (Combined)
- He Qinglian: “We Are Still Looking Up at the Starry Sky”
- A SWOT Analysis of a Double Degree…
- “I Can Do It” and True Courage
- Annotations on the Analects…………
- Annotations on the Analects…………
- Annotations on the Analects…………
- Pearls and Strings
- Knowing—Thinking—Saying—Writing—Doing
- [U.S.] R. P. Feynman: “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
- I’ve kind of regained the feeling of writing essays in high school~
- Let me explain why this place is called “Suixuan”~
- Heh-heh, an essay from middle school days…
- Is Science and Technology the Primary Productive Force?
- If You Fall Behind, Do You Get Beaten?
- The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity
- Kant’s Space-Time and Hawking’s Universe — Kant’s View of Science and Modern Physics
- Kant’s Space-Time and Hawking’s Universe — Kant’s View of Science and Modern Physics
- The Shortcomings of “Eradicating Feudal Superstition”
- Science Has No Absolute Truth… But Is There Absolute Error? (And a Supplement)
- Science Has No Absolute Truth… But Is There Absolute Error? (And a Supplement)
- What I Want to Build Is a Garden
- What I Want to Build Is a Garden
- I despise plagiarism in academic papers!
- On Fate
- Three Stages of Reading Philosophy: “Seeing Mountains as Mountains”
- The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang
- What makes us human is, quite simply, that only humans can restrain beastliness with reason, thereby sublimating human nature into sensibility.
- The Starry Sky in My Heart
- Remove the dross, keep the essence?
- The Tree of Philosophy [US] Pang Sifen / author Zhai Pengxiao / translator Wang Lingyun / proofreader Guangxi Normal University Press 2005.5
- Silent Wonder
- Silent Wonder
- A Post and My Reply (About Speaking Out Online)
- Supplementary Ideological Report for Party Membership Confirmation
- On “Speaking of Principles”
- Returning from Military Training
- Feynman: Poets Always Say That Scientists Cannot See the Beauty of the Planets—
- Compiled Q&A for Philosophy Department Freshmen
- TV science education is a stronghold for spreading pseudoscience!
- The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by
- Constellations, Easter Island, and the Predicament of Popular Science
- The Demon-Haunted World [U.S.] Carl Sagan / author
- Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song
- A Short History of Nearly Everything [U.S.] Bill Bryson / by
- A Letter to First-Year Philosophy Students
- A Letter to First-Year Philosophy Students
- Reference Bibliography for Ecology Philosophy
- Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra for Destroying All Evil Destinies
- Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra for Destroying All Evil Destinies
- The Best Formation…
- Transcendent Amid the Mundane World
- On Looking Down from on High
- Speak Less
- An Introductory Philosophy Paper
- An Introductory Philosophy Paper
- The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy
- My View of the Germination of Capitalism in China (An Article from My High School Years)
- My View of the Germination of Capitalism in China (An Article from My High School Years)
- A Brief Discussion of Political Culture and Social Forms in the Mongol-Yuan Period
- A Brief Discussion of Political Culture and Social Forms in the Mongol-Yuan Period
- Summer Vacation Notes from 2002
- The Grand Unification of Philosophy (an essay from my high school years): Excerpts and Notes
- Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
- Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
- Application for Confirmation of Party Membership
- Application for Confirmation of Party Membership
- Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)
- A Complex of Rain
- Philosophy of the Starry Sky