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202643

  1. Reviving the Original Aspiration to Seek Knowledge: In the Age of AI, Everyone Is a Scientist — Call for Entrepreneurial Partners
  2. The Philosophy of Raising Children (I): How to Reason with Children
  3. Let Despotism Stop at the Factory Gate—On Anthropic’s AI Safety Politics
  4. Please Touch, Please Do Not Touch: Hands in the Museum
  5. Do We Still Need Central Banks in the Age of AI? — Why Should a Small Clique Still Decide the Global Market?
  6. From Inscription on the Page to Spatial Exhibition: Why Art and Science Need to Meet Again
  7. Machines Can Ban Accounts, and Regulators Must Also Explain—On the Uber Case and the GDPR
  8. DEI Must Start from Equality for All (Starting from the A’erdai Incident)
  9. AI, Freedom, and the Formation of the Self
  10. Criticizing Meta Does Not Mean Letting the Government Become the Product Manager—On “The Medium Is the Message,” Parental Responsibility, Corporate Deception, and State Paternalism
  11. In the Name of Transparency, Opaque Watermarks—On the EU’s AI Text Marking Regulations
  12. Women’s Sports Are Not an Identity Alliance—On Transgender Participation in Competition
  13. On Wang Hong, Math Olympiad Competitions, and the Freedom to Run Schools
  14. On Identity Impersonation, Freedom of Speech, and the Algorithmic Roots of Content Farms
  15. Put a Leash on AI, Not Pull Its Teeth — On Agent Safety: Capabilities Can Be Open, but Actions Must Be Bounded
  16. Question the Heart, Not Calculation: A Dialogue on Moral Philosophy, the Self, and Publicness
  17. A Philosophical Discussion of Reality and Happiness (vs. ChatGPT)
  18. AI Should Be Born Bearing Sin
  19. If Trump’s Information Can Be Sold, Why Can’t the Teleprompter Operator Make Money? — On the Truth API and the White House “Insider Betting” Investigation
  20. On the Structural Biases of European Financial Regulation: Regulation Should Not Eliminate Voluntary Risk on Behalf of the Public, but Rather Restrain Risk Spillovers, Information Asymmetry, and Systemic Harm.
  21. After Academic Fraud, Public Trust Should Be Reduced to Zero: On the Jiang Fangzhou Incident, University Autonomy, and a High-Trust Society
  22. A Self-Account & Guide (2026 Edition)
  23. The Blog Has Been Refreshed
  24. A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”
  28. Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
  29. Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
  30. From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
  31. 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”
  32. AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age
  33. Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
  34. Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
  35. From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears
  36. Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
  37. The whole world has erupted into a shouting match—what right does a museum have to step in and play peacemaker?
  38. If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
  39. Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?
  40. Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  41. Will AI Restructure the History of Science?
  42. How to Be a Punk Philosopher
  43. “Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09

202517

  1. The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks
  2. Opening Remarks for the Brain-Computer Interface Forum: Interface or Port?
  3. Let Beibei Become Someone Different from Yang Weiwei
  4. The Media Matrix and the Livestream Preview
  5. The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
  6. Email Subscription Has Been Re-enabled
  7. The Network State and Its Technological Foundations
  8. How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New
  9. The Linguistics of the Life Sciences: From Mechanical Analogies to Teleological Analogies—Preface to the Recommended Chinese Translation of The Book of Life
  10. In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”
  11. Museums in a Changing Society
  12. Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
  13. Reading: A Bridge to the Future
  14. Talking About Trump
  15. On the Left’s Self-dug Grave
  16. In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?
  17. The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins

202413

  1. Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism
  2. 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.
  3. Common Knowledge as Life
  4. From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture
  5. The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO
  6. The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3
  7. Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed
  8. On “Fair Launch”
  9. Has NFT Failed?
  10. A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
  11. Memory Replacing Computation—A Review of Stiegler’s Technics and Time
  12. Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)
  13. Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch

202326

  1. The Triple Greatness of the Crypto Renaissance
  2. Accelerationism vs. Alignmentism, Socialism(?)
  3. Cultivating a Cultural Atmosphere That Pursues Novelty and Interest — A Review of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  4. AI Is Sick; Web3 Is the Cure
  5. Notes on the “Network City-State”
  6. What Is Technology? (Transcript of the 25th Session of the Jishi Lecture Series)
  7. “Metaverse” from the Perspective of the History of Technology — The New Environment of the Information Revolution
  8. Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution
  9. Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)
  10. Commentary on the 2023 Exam Paper for “Media History and Media Philosophy”
  11. Review of Radical Markets: Also on Why the Crypto Movement Should Be Radical
  12. Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency
  13. Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
  14. How Is a History of Technological Thought Possible? — Mumford’s Historiographical Method as Seen in Technics and Civilization
  15. On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State
  16. On Transhumanism, the Logic of Blockchain, and Huawendao: A Dialogue at SeeDAO
  17. Treating People as People: An Introduction to Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings
  18. Introduction to “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile”
  19. Do We Still Need to “Read” in the Age of “Swiping”?
  20. Summary of the Course “A General History of Technology” (Fall 2022 Semester)
  21. Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)
  22. Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT
  23. The Structure of the Historiographical Revolution — An Introduction to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  24. Unemployment or Liberation? Artificial Intelligence’s Dual Revolution
  25. NFT Value Viewed Through The Philosophy of Money
  26. Play to Action—On Human Liberation in the Digital Age

202233

  1. 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
  2. Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation
  3. Huawendao White Paper, Version 2.1.1
  4. Confronting “Complexity” — A Review of Big Science
  5. Augmented Reality or Augmented Rationality? The Multiple Ideals of Communication Technology
  6. NFT-ifying Behavioral Histories: The Return of Value to Meaning
  7. Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?
  8. “Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Technology” Course Summary for 2022
  9. Becoming Citizens Capable of Debate—Commencement Address for the 2022 Department of History of Science Graduation Ceremony
  10. In Memory of Master Xianglong
  11. Why Is the Cat Version of “The God of Medicine” Wrong?
  12. From a Snail Shell to the Metaverse—An Evolutionary Theory of Technological “Organs”
  13. The “Nonsense” that Scientifically Combats Scientific Nonsense — Preface to Recommending Exposing Data Nonsense
  14. Heavenly Endowment
  15. The Science Museum in the Metaverse: Looking Ahead to the Future of Digital Collectibles
  16. Creating Something Out of Nothing — How the Metaverse Inflates Big Bubbles
  17. An Interview Transcript on Research Failure
  18. The Metaverse: the “New Continent” of the Information World
  19. Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?
  20. Rebuilding the Threshold—Web3 Is Indeed a Kind of Regression into “Enclosure and Self-Exaltation,” but That May Not Necessarily Be a Bad Thing
  21. Will AI’s “Xiaowuxianggong” Go Berserk? — “Review of AI 3.0”
  22. From the Altar to the Forum: The Practical Significance of the History of Science (A Review of Modern History of Science)
  23. Historical Significance or Practical Significance? — “Science: The Endless Frontier”
  24. On VR (IV): If Houses Are Square, What’s So Strange About People Who See Squares? — On the Sensory Style of the Metaverse
  25. Course Summary for A General History of Technology, Fall 2021 (Questionnaire Summary)
  26. The Cost of Innovation: Another Kind of Lesson from the History of Technology — A Review of The Technology Trap
  27. Commentary on the Autumn 2021 Final Exam for A General History of Technology and Showcase of Outstanding Answer Papers
  28. A Guide to Understanding Media: Means Are the Measure
  29. “The World of Ideas,” “Lyceum”: An NFT Project I Imagined, 2 and 3
  30. “Investiture of the Gods”: An NFT Project I Envisioned
  31. Why Are NFTs Valuable? Rethinking NFTs and Tulips
  32. The Metaverse Is Hyperreality, Not Virtual Reality: From the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution to the Information Revolution
  33. From BTC to NFT: From Wealth to Power

202117

  1. Biography of Things (Continued) — Educational Significance, Secondary-School Science and Technology Innovation, and the Bottleneck Problem
  2. The Biography of Objects: Methods and Significance in the History of Scientific Instruments
  3. Basic Skills in Studying Philosophy: Avoid Reifying Abstract Entities, Resist the Universalization of Holism
  4. In an increasingly impossible-to-take-seriously world, an earnest run-in with JD.com customer service
  5. NFTs and Tulip Mania
  6. “People Are Ends, Not Means” — A Critical Review of China on the Cloud
  7. On VR (3): Some VR Game Experiences and the “Auditory-Tactile Space”
  8. Games and Its Mission
  9. An Interview Transcript about Zhang Xiaoyu’s Technics and Civilization
  10. A Course Summary on Media History and Media Philosophy (Spring 2021)
  11. In the Age of Technology, What Use Is Philosophy? — On “An Introduction to Philosophy of Technology”
  12. A Few Recent Audio-Video Posts
  13. Course Summary for A General History of Technology (Fall 2020)
  14. On “What Is Technology?”: An Interview with China Science Daily
  15. Freedom of Speech and Social Media
  16. Bitcoin: Is There Little Time Left for Poor Students?
  17. “Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?

202030

  1. The Unification of Information Technology and Information Science in the History of Information — A Review of Wu Jun’s Information Transmission
  2. The Growth History of the Scientific Spirit and the Unity of Personality
  3. Bitcoin’s New High Commemoration (II): How Far Are We from the Eternal Bull Market?
  4. Who Is the Worst in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
  5. Getting It Done in Advance — The Common Logic of Napier’s Bones and Logarithms
  6. Who Is the “Computer”? — Starting from the Relationship Between Computer and Calculator.
  7. A Conversation with Teacher Wu at the Yejiaxuan Reading Salon
  8. “A History of the Technology and Philosophical Study of Blockchain” Receives National Social Science Fund Grant
  9. In what sense is “basic science” the cause of “bottlenecking”?
  10. Is Digital Currency Beautiful? — A Review of *The New Currency War*
  11. An Interview with China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News on Questions of Science and Technology
  12. Course Outline: Philosophy of Science and Reading the Original Texts
  13. Rules for Authorship on Coauthored Papers
  14. Course Summary for General History of Technology (Spring 2020)
  15. Why Must Philosophy Be Obscure? — Reflections on a Perfect-Score Zhejiang Essay
  16. Driverless Driving: Transforming the World Like Automobiles Did? — A Review of “The Age of Automation”
  17. Hindsight in the Face of Technology—A Review of The Dark Side of Technology
  18. Can This Really Count as a General History? — The Publication of Extension of Man: A General History of Technology
  19. A Brief Q&A on Bitcoin Halving
  20. How to Write Good Reading Notes Assignments
  21. The “Atmosphere” of Online Teaching, or a New Paradigm
  22. Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis
  23. Rethinking Human Nature in the Age of Technology — A Review of Technics and Time 1
  24. Using Unequal Technology to Promote Equality
  25. Rumor: Seeking Rationality in an Absurd World
  26. Elevating the Enemy, or a Narrative Bigger Than the Grand
  27. The Meaning of “Conflation”: How the Public Can Participate in Scientific Communication
  28. Viruses: Nature’s Temper?
  29. “Preventable and Controllable” — the “Flag” of the Technological Age
  30. Why Has “From One to Infinity” Remained Popular for 70 Years?

201930

  1. Why Is Innovation an Economic Question? — An Analysis of the Concept of Innovation from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology
  2. Is Philosophy of Technology Useful? — Applying Philosophy of Technology in Teaching the Philosophy of Technology Course
  3. From “Information Blocks” to “Blockchains”: Blockchain as a Completion of the Internet
  4. Is an E-cigarette a Cigarette?
  5. On the Swedish Climate Girl (The Decline of the Enlightenment Spirit)
  6. On Backwardness and Getting Beaten
  7. From Spirit Photography to Face-Swapping Apps: On the Popularization and Abuse of Technology
  8. Kant on “Not Lying”
  9. Was There Confucianism in the Ancient West?
  10. My Qualification to Recruit PhD Students Was Revoked (with an Attached Record of Communication with Prospective Applicants)
  11. On the Amazon Fire and the Amazon Outage
  12. Visiting for an Exchange at Jiangsu Province Qinghe Middle School (What Kind of “General Technology” Do Middle School Students Need?)
  13. The Responsibility of Intellectuals
  14. Am I “One” or “Many”? — A Review of I Encompass All Things
  15. Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Second Year)
  16. Technology and Garbage in a Race
  17. Suixuan Is Moving
  18. The “Two Cultures” Debate Is Long Outdated
  19. Should We ‘Bid’ to Snatch Up Talent?
  20. Humans and Technology in Evolution—Technology Also Needs “Protected Areas for Diversity”
  21. Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance
  22. Salute to the Strivers! — Striving for the Capitalist or Striving for All Humanity? (Comments on 996)
  23. Who Can Sell Black Hole Photos? Visual China Can, but So Can You
  24. Upgrading One’s Worldview Is Not So Easy—A Review of Worldview
  25. Writing Robot: The Conflict Between Education and Technology
  26. Don’t Universities for the Elderly Teach You How to Play Games?
  27. From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
  28. From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course
  29. A Compilation of Feedback on the Homework for Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
  30. Is Chinese Studies Anti-Science?

201832

  1. Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
  2. How Can Ethics in the Technological Age Welcome the Future? [Fourth Commentary]
  3. Is Eugenics Justifiable? — A Delayed Judgment [Third Review]
  4. The Abdication of Royal Power and the Reform of the International System of Units
  5. The Disappearance of “Grace” — A Second Discussion of the He Jiankui Affair
  6. “Passing the Buck” Is the Greatest Danger Exposed by the He Jiankui Incident
  7. Can VR Save Us from Our Smartphone Addiction?
  8. Viète and the Transformation of Mathematics from Antiquity to Modernity
  9. AR Glasses and the “Brain in a Vat”
  10. Review of The Meaning of Science
  11. On the Backboard — A Phenomenology of Beat Saber
  12. Course Schedule for the 2018 Fall Semester (Introduction to Philosophy of Technology + Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science)
  13. Selected Commentary on the Anji Conference
  14. On VR (II): A Stage-by-Stage Summary of the Gaming Experience
  15. Newtonian Mechanics and Modern Currency
  16. Balancing Fairness and Efficiency—Can Smart Cities Solve Beijing’s “Hard Stations”?
  17. On Shanzhai: On the Advantages of Being a Latecomer
  18. On Sexual Harassment
  19. Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Student Comments and Summaries of Each Lecture)
  20. On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
  21. The Spirit of Science: Struggle or Harmony?
  22. Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology
  23. What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
  24. On VR (I): The Meaning of “Immersion”
  25. At what “time” do we need to “check the time”?
  26. History of Science as a Nature Reserve—A Darwinian View of Science
  27. The First Reading Group of This Semester
  28. Further Supplement to PhD Admissions Requirements (Actionable Questionnaire Version) [Expired]
  29. Undergraduate General Education Course: “A General History of Technology”
  30. The “Entrepreneurial Spirit” that Breaks the Balance
  31. An Interview on Science and Technology in the Magazine China Youth
  32. The Ontological Basis of ‘Scarcity Makes Things Valuable’—With a Discussion of Why Bitcoin Is Valuable

201734

  1. Comments on the 2nd Tsinghua Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
  2. Selected Readings in Philosophy of Science: “Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of the Mind” (Post-Lecture Notes by the Lecturer, by Jalinus)
  3. The “King of Invention” wasn’t called that for nothing—he was the one who invented “invention” itself
  4. Selected Readings in the Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “Facts, Fiction, and Forecast” (Post-lecture Notes by Jiepo Qingshan)
  5. Selected Readings from the Original Texts of Philosophy of Science: Reichenbach (Post-Class Notes by Zhuowu)
  6. Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (Post-class Notes by the Lecturer, by Yiduo Xiong)
  7. Selected Readings in Classics of Philosophy of Science: Sample In-Class Questions
  8. The First Reading Group of the New Semester
  9. Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science: Introduction
  10. Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
  11. On ICOs: The Future of Stocks
  12. Less Habit, More Tracing Back to the Source — A Review of The Origin of Everything
  13. Galileo as an Artist
  14. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class
  15. [A Little Grumble] You Only Realize How Annoying Procrastination Is Once You Become a Teacher
  16. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Using the Toilet
  17. On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
  18. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast
  19. Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident
  20. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed
  21. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: An Introduction
  22. Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]
  23. Bitcoin: A Layperson’s Introduction
  24. Blog Update Basically Complete
  25. Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives
  26. The Blog Is Being Redesigned
  27. The Blame for “Health” Scams Shouldn’t Be Put on the Audience
  28. Science Popularization Should Stand on the Opposite Side of “Innovation”
  29. Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
  30. When Reading Joseph Needham, Do Not “Buy the Casket and Return the Pearl” — A Review of *The Titration of Civilization*
  31. Is the threshold for “learning” Bitcoin higher? — Also on the Different Levels of Technical Knowledge
  32. On Political Correctness (I): Political Correctness and the God’s-Eye View
  33. Lecture Notes on The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage (Postdoctoral Exit Report)
  34. Commemorating Bitcoin’s New High

201625

  1. On Phenomenology (I)
  2. My Course Plan for the History of Science Department
  3. The Origins of Technology
  4. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
  5. Technology and Exploiting Loopholes—On Alibaba’s “Mooncake Snatching Incident”
  6. In Memory of Professor Ye Xiushan
  7. I cleaned up many registered users on the blog and temporarily disabled the registration function
  8. Is It Worth Building a Super-Large Collider?
  9. Travel Notes from the Xichang Conference
  10. The knife really is about to fly up and cut people: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Technical Intentionality
  11. A Loose Phenomenological Discussion of “Artificial Intelligence”
  12. A “Transitional” Work — _Outmoded Wisdom_ (Afterword, Table of Contents, and Selected Images)
  13. The “Layers” of the World—A Few Words on Pokemon GO and AR
  14. “Our” Magazine, “Shared” Youth — A Commemorative Essay on “Gongqingyuan”
  15. When Results Obscure Process — “Scientific Literacy Standards” and Melamine
  16. I, Too, Will Take a Shot at the “Chinese Citizens’ Scientific Literacy Benchmark”
  17. “It Must Be Rectification of Names” — Politics, History, and Science
  18. The Self-Realization of Technology (Outline)
  19. On Mirrors (I): The Construction of Interfaces
  20. Internet + Real Estate = Free?
  21. Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo
  22. Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
  23. On Cities (1): What Is a City?
  24. The Inevitable Path to Decentralization—A Few Thoughts on Bitcoin Hard Forks, and, by the Way, on Central Bank Digital Currency
  25. On Garbage (1): From Discarded Things to Useless Things

201536

  1. What Does the Mobile Phone Have to Do with Cooking? — The One and the Many of Technology
  2. The Structure of the Technological Revolution (Draft)
  3. Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Meeting (Benxi Part)
  4. Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Conference (Shenyang Section)
  5. Natural History or Natural Records?
  6. On Small-Class Teaching
  7. The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?
  8. Philosophical Commentary [Episode 2] “What Nice Weather” (Part I): The True Is the Point of Emphasis
  9. Philosophical Ramblings [Episode 1]: Freedom Is Like Treating Someone to a Meal
  10. Philosophical Commentary and Quips [Column Introduction] Philosophy and Life
  11. Stock Market Musings: Freedom and Stability
  12. How Should the General History of Science Be Told? — Course Summary for “General History of Science”
  13. On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course
  14. Compendium of Recommended Readings for a General History of Science
  15. A General History of Science 16: The Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
  16. Lectures on the General History of Science 15: A Special Topic in the History of Mathematics (The Mathematical Revolution)
  17. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 14: Science and the Industrial Revolution [Starting Next Week, We’ll Move to a Different Classroom]
  18. Lectures on the General History of Science 13: Science in the Age of Enlightenment
  19. Lectures on the General History of Science 12: Discussion Session
  20. Lectures on the General History of Science 11: Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution [Next Week’s Class Discussion]
  21. Lectures on the General History of Science 10: The Mechanics Revolution [Class Discussion the Week After Next]
  22. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 9: The Copernican Revolution
  23. Lectures on the General History of Science 8: Printing and the Scientific Revolution
  24. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science
  25. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 6: Special Topics in the History of Chinese Science
  26. Lectures on the General History of Science 5: Roman and Arabic Science
  27. Lectures on the General History of Science 4: Hellenistic Science
  28. Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]
  29. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 2: The Prehistory of Science
  30. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science (Introduction)
  31. This Semester’s Course Schedule
  32. On Genetically Modified Organisms
  33. Why We Don’t Need BitCNY
  34. Copernicus and Nakamoto — A Paradigm Shift in the Technological Revolution
  35. Inner Bodily Consciousness
  36. Supervisors as the Dissertation’s Imagined Adversary—Odds and Ends on Academic Papers

201422

  1. A Summary of the Reading Group on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  2. On CC Licenses
  3. On Civil Servants
  4. An Outline of the General History of Technology
  5. Course Outline: A Guide to Academic Research
  6. Giving a Talk on the History of Science at Central China Normal University
  7. Course Outline: A General History of Science
  8. Bitcoin’s Value Depends on Holding It
  9. Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology
  10. Should Bitcoin Exchanges Have 100% Reserves?
  11. Application Scenarios for Bitcoin Multisignature Technology
  12. An Introduction to the Historiography of the General History of Technology
  13. Bitcoin and Mathematics: How Reliable Is Cryptography?
  14. Exploring the Dark Interstices — A Review of Speculation and Media
  15. Notes and Illustration Sources for “A Brief History of Scientific Culture”
  16. On the Historiographical Program for a General History of Science
  17. An Initial Exploration of Simmel’s Philosophy of Money
  18. Postscript to the Doctoral Dissertation
  19. Postdoctoral Research Plan (A History of “Trash” from the Perspective of Media Ecology)
  20. On the Bitcoin Ban Controversy
  21. MtGox Miscellany: If Something That Could Be Made Public Is Not Made Public, There Must Be Something Shady Behind It
  22. The Dark Forest and the Law of Evolution, Thought and Expression — Some Complaints about The Three-Body Problem

201337

  1. Nandu Media’s “Bitcoin” Special Feature Interview Questionnaire
  2. Why Won’t Bitcoin Fall to Zero? — Random Thoughts on Bitcoin Market Trends
  3. On the Question of the Scientificity of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  4. Why Should Young People Publish Books?—Starting from Sounding the West, Striking the East
  5. Why Doesn’t Bitcoin Fit Gresham’s Law (Bad Money Drives Out Good)?
  6. Is Bitcoin Environmentally Friendly?
  7. Art: The Margin of Technology
  8. Toys, Mirrors, and Art (Reflections on a Seminar and a Preview)
  9. Some Thoughts on Teaching Assistants for Small-Group Discussion Sessions in General Education Elective Courses
  10. The Rationality of Whig History and the Possibility of an Anti-Whig Approach
  11. The Revolutionary History of Media
  12. Travel Notes on the Lushan Conference
  13. What Is Wrong with “Eugenics” — A Review of Against Perfection
  14. A Natural History of Media—McLuhan’s Method
  15. Bitcoin: Musings on Mining and Altcoins
  16. Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma
  17. Bitcoin: The Age of Exploration
  18. The Economic History of Media—From Marx to Innis
  19. An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike
  20. Miscellaneous Musings on Gambling
  21. Post-80s: The First Generation of Young People in an Age of Twilight
  22. Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
  23. Bitcoin: An Endless Scam
  24. Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
  25. Human-Centricity or Humble Solipsism? — A Discussion of Whether Heidegger’s Philosophy Is a Philosophy of Subjectivity
  26. A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition
  27. Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes
  28. Photography and Science
  29. On Page Charges
  30. On Delayed Graduation and Looking for a Job
  31. On NetEase Mail, Cookies, and Privacy in the Internet Age
  32. A Civilizational History of Technology—Using Mumford as an Example
  33. The First Weibo Post That Got Blocked~
  34. Updated the Blog Email Address
  35. The Paradox of Fairness—On Halting Ticket-Grabber Plugins
  36. The History of Work
  37. Contempt and Locality

201272

  1. The Two Falls of the Concept of “Nature” and Nature as “Anti-Normative” in Its Original Sense
  2. Equality or Freedom: On the Question of Attending School Outside One’s Hometown
  3. Blog hosting moved to Aliyun~
  4. Travel Notes on the Guangzhou Conference
  5. A Supplement to “Media History as Transcendental Philosophy”: The Relation Between Ontology and Epistemology; Nature Is Naturally the Boundary of Technology
  6. On the Discussion of Intentional History and Actual History
  7. On Elitism and Esoteric Truth
  8. Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance
  9. [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
  10. 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
  11. On the Diaoyu Islands
  12. Media and Morality
  13. Olympiad Math: The Side Road to the Gaokao
  14. The Shameful Greek Spirit
  15. The Whole-Nation System and the Pursuit of Excellence
  16. Solving Problems and Institutional Reform
  17. Disasters and Despotism
  18. Chopsticks and Internet Addiction
  19. My Book-Writing Plan
  20. Youth and Politics
  21. 20120628
  22. A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”
  23. The 1000th Blog Post
  24. Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”
  25. Christian Creationism and the Rise of Modern Science
  26. Joining the Party Burdened by Guilt
  27. Knowledge Is Connection
  28. Recommended Introductory Reading on Phenomenology: “Studies in Lived Experience”
  29. The Flush Toilet: City, Civilization, Modernity
  30. Nature as Raw Meat or Bacon
  31. Patriotism and Hatred of Enemies
  32. On Choosing an English Translation of “The Critique of Pure Reason”
  33. The Left and Right, Chinese Style
  34. Do the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment
  35. Brazenly Shameless
  36. The Spring and Autumn Annals Style or Scientific Research? — Is the Mission of the Media to Seek Truth?
  37. Switched the server back to Beijing dual-line
  38. The Philosopher’s Profession, or the Professional Philosopher?
  39. Satisfaction and Choice—Reading Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants
  40. Recommended Chinese-Language Bibliography on Environmental Philosophy
  41. The Distanting and Severing of “This”
  42. In Praise of “Rumors”
  43. The Multiple Layers of Technological Embodiment (embodiment, incarnation, manifestation)
  44. Why Place Ads
  45. Technical Intentionality and the Unconscious
  46. The Re-Creation of the World: How Modern Science Came Into Being
  47. On “Gongqingyuan”
  48. [Weibo] Earth Hour
  49. Let’s test posting a Weibo directly on the blog~
  50. The title doesn’t show up on the blog homepage, but it still exists~
  51. Western Learning as Substance, Chinese Learning as Application
  52. Democracy Against the People-as-the-Basis: A Debate on Weibo
  53. Night Reading Mencius: The Traitor Faction
  54. The Mediality of “Natural Seeing”
  55. A History of Technological Thought Between the Legs
  56. The “Natural Selection” of Technology—A Critique of Levinson’s Theory of Media Evolution
  57. Where Is the Journal Conservative? — A Brief Note on Submitting a Manuscript
  58. Notes on “Being and Time” II: “Being and Media”?
  59. Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules
  60. Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light
  61. Black Bear and Virtue Ethics
  62. The Strong Program of Media History
  63. Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
  64. Bottom-Up Reform
  65. A Second Discussion of Fang Yaohan: Wild Animals and Freedom of Speech
  66. About Fang Yaohan
  67. “The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good
  68. Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak
  69. Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist
  70. [Repost] Call for Papers for the 6th National Academic Conference on Phenomenology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  71. “Internet Addiction” Stems from a Craving for the “Real World”
  72. From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website

201168

  1. “Intentional History” and the Aim of Historiography
  2. 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”
  3. Regarding the Third Assignment for Ke Tong: “On Bacon’s Science”
  4. Love of Wisdom and Patriotism
  5. Schneider, What’s the Matter with You? Or, on the Thickness of Media—An Interpretation of “The Phenomenology of Perception” 1.3.8
  6. Cookbooks and the History of Science and Technology
  7. A Portal for the History of Science and Philosophy? A Library? — On the Future Fate of keshizhe.net
  8. On Communicating with Extraterrestrial Civilizations—A Snarky Commentary on Jiang Xiaoyuan’s Report
  9. Second Commentary on the Science and Technology Assignment (On the Revolutionary and Conservative Aspects of the Copernican System)
  10. Exchange First, Scholarship Second—A Summary of the Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
  11. Introduction to the History, Philosophy, and Science Conference Handbook
  12. Politics Is Dispute—Starting from the Smoke-Free Campus
  13. Mathematics, Education, and Machines
  14. What Is an “Eduroam-Free Address”?
  15. Huaxia Mingwang’s hosting failure rate is too high…
  16. Ye Men Gathering — Archived Old Essays
  17. Some Replies on the General History of Science BBS in the First Half of the Semester
  18. Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science
  19. Notes on the keshizhe.net submission area (and adding a “replies visible only to the original poster” feature)
  20. Beijing Region Graduate Student Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science Continues to Solicit Submissions~~
  21. On the First Assignment for History of Science and Technology: Basic Features of Hellenistic Science Seen Through Ptolemaic Astronomy
  22. Is the University a Public Sphere? — Further Thoughts on Publicly Posting Grades and Publicly Critiquing Assignments
  23. Arendt Reading Notes
  24. My New Mobile Device: HTC Flyer
  25. Revisiting “Natural History” (Natural Science) as a Historiographical Program
  26. Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
  27. What Does the Red Cross Do? What Do Public Welfare Organizations Do?
  28. On “Knowledge Changes One’s Destiny”
  29. Access Statistics of the History of Science, Philosophy, and Technology BBS Since Its Launch..
  30. The Difference Between Pirates and Heroes?
  31. Is High Speed a Good Thing?
  32. Recommended Introductory Readings in Philosophy of Technology
  33. The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet
  34. Why Create Such a Forum?
  35. Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History of Science and Philosophy
  36. Call for Papers, Meeting Summary, and BBS Homepage for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
  37. Why Not Revive Confucianism?
  38. On Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
  39. Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
  40. [Announcement] Starting to Try Weibo
  41. Some Thoughts on the People’s Congress System
  42. A Little Commemoration of English Class
  43. Why Is the Three Gorges Dam Said to Be the Culprit Behind the Drought?
  44. I Don’t Object to the “Jeanswest Building”
  45. Utensils and Ritual Vessels
  46. On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology
  47. Added a Subscription Feature
  48. Switched EzEngage to connect with Weibo via WordPress
  49. The Distinctiveness of China’s Written Culture and Print Culture
  50. Three Meta-Disagreements with Analytic Philosophy
  51. Art, Media, and the Space of Meaning in the Interstices
  52. SCI and Academic Fairness
  53. A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”
  54. Why Do We Need Protein? — The Pursuit of Relative Truth
  55. What Is Democracy? Livelihood? Equality? Democracy Is Article 35 of the Constitution
  56. Media Realism—Scientific Realism from the Perspective of Media Ontology
  57. Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin
  58. [Draft] Several Issues in the Philosophy of Science from the Perspective of Media Ontology—Scientific Method, Causality, and Realism
  59. This Issue’s Music: “Baba Yetu”
  60. [Reprint] One Against a Hundred—Those Internet Companies with Few Employees and Many Users
  61. A Talk on “Copyright” in the Internet Age
  62. Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media
  63. Plugins Currently in Use on the Blog (Updated 11-11-20)
  64. Some Thoughts on the Elements of History of Science in the Primary School “Science” Curriculum
  65. Music for This Issue: TiawTang (Thailand’s Music in Civilization V)
  66. The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition
  67. Switching Blogs Again!
  68. A Chat Record on Determinism and Free Will

201070

  1. The Blind Spots of Modern Medicine as Seen from “Double-Blind Experiments”
  2. Some Thoughts on the Future of Energy
  3. The Handy and the In-Hand
  4. What Can Chinese Tradition Bring to Modern Politics?
  5. A Paragon of the History of Scientific Thought — Dijksterhuis’s The Mechanization of the World Picture
  6. 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*)
  7. “Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism
  8. The Tower of Babel and the Accelerator — Reflections on Ma Boqiang’s Lecture
  9. Thought, History, Poetry — One of the Explanations of This Version of the Categorical Scheme
  10. Initial Setup of the Suixuan Sub-Base Completed
  11. Blogcn Really Does Have Log Review After All
  12. Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
  13. The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture
  14. Blog Relocation Effective Today
  15. The Capitalization of Technology — Reflections on Han Qide’s Lecture
  16. The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures
  17. Hello, world!
  18. Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry in Biology—Thoughts on Chang Zengyi’s Lecture
  19. On Reform of the Gaokao Guaranteed Admission System and the Jiaozhou Road Fire
  20. Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing
  21. Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”
  22. Natural History as a Historiographical Program—Reflections on Liu Huajie’s Lecture
  23. The Blog’s Indenture
  24. Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
  25. “Natural History” Should Be Translated as “Natural History”
  26. Reexamining Medicine, Reexamining Human Nature—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
  27. “The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture
  28. Civilization History as History of Science—A Review of Sarton’s Ancient Science in the Golden Age of Greece
  29. Tradition as the Condition for Creation—Reflections on Dong Guangbi’s Lecture
  30. Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
  31. Space and Geometry—Questions for Reflection and Suggestions for Discussion from Teacher Wang’s Lecture
  32. The benevolent are invincible: some associations
  33. The Secrets of the Turing Machine
  34. A Few Words on “What Is Science” at the Start of the Course
  35. Has the Yiku server apparently moved to the United States? …
  36. A Travelogue of the Hailar Conference
  37. ZZ Power Station Quietly Begins Construction / Nujiang Again in Crisis (Southern Metropolis Daily, 2008-03-17)
  38. Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology
  39. Theses on Media Ontology
  40. “Proof” and the Mathematical Spirit
  41. Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy
  42. How Should We Understand Why “Proof” Is the Core Concept of the “Foundations of Mathematics”?
  43. Has Chaos Theory Overturned the Determinism of Classical Physics? (Philosophy of Physics Assignment)
  44. What the Wang Hui Affair Reveals About the Climate in Chinese Academia
  45. Why Post Grades?
  46. Postscript After Grading the 2010 General History of Science Exam
  47. Answers to the Essay Questions on the Final Exam for History of Science
  48. The Political Mission of College Students?
  49. On the New Three Kingdoms and Artworks in the Age of Mass Media
  50. [Archive] Waiku Blog News
  51. The Road of the Azure Sky
  52. A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Media Ontology
  53. Two earthquake orphans on stage? What are you thinking?!
  54. Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand
  55. Doctoral Research Plan (Media Phenomenology)
  56. On CCTV’s Blocking of English Abbreviations
  57. Phenomenology Notes 3
  58. Quantum Mechanics: Did It Introduce the Observer, or Send God Away?
  59. Phenomenology Notes 2
  60. Who Has “Politicized” Google?
  61. Phenomenology Notes 1
  62. Winter Break Essay V: Love, or the Search for Certainty
  63. Winter Vacation Essays, No. 4: Green Dam—The Taboo of Eating Beef or the Taboo of Eating Pork
  64. Third Winter Vacation Essay: Will and Responsibility
  65. Winter Break Essay No. 2: Relativism
  66. Winter Vacation Miscellany I: What Is Modernity?
  67. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]
  68. The Naturalization of Mathematics — A Wordplay on the Mechanization of the World Picture
  69. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-09 [Penultimate Issue?]
  70. Miscellaneous Notes from This Issue’s Xindao Salon 10-01-02

2009118

  1. The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai
  2. On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions
  3. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-12-26
  4. 09-12-24 Walking on the Ice of Weiming Lake
  5. Grades and Comments on the First Question of the Second Assignment in General History of Science
  6. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12-12
  7. Jottings from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12–5
  8. Miscellaneous Notes from the Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Conference I
  9. November 2009 Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Photo Album
  10. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-11-21 [The Next Session May Be Paused Once]
  11. Media · Sensation · Space-Time — A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology
  12. Grade Record for Question 3 of the First Assignment in General History of Science
  13. (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~
  14. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-10-24
  15. Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?
  16. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-10-10 [Part 1 of the Special Topic on “Science and the View of Life”]
  17. Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-10-03
  18. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-26
  19. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-19
  20. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-09-12
  21. Communication and Chess
  22. 09-09-11
  23. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-08-29
  24. Xindao Salon Will Experimentally Resume on August 29
  25. Miscellaneous Thoughts on Marching in Step
  26. [Archive] Einstein on Parades
  27. What Is Temperamental Compatibility and Scattered Association
  28. zz Ministry of Justice: Lawyers Handling Sensitive Cases Must Pay Heed to Politics and the Bigger Picture
  29. [Announcement] The Xindao Salon Will Continue to Be Suspended Tomorrow
  30. A Cultural History, Technological History, and Intellectual History of Bathing
  31. zz Sender: SMG Solar Eclipse Live Broadcast Shockingly Absurd Quotations (Repost)
  32. Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”
  33. [Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed
  34. Ji Xianlin: “Ji Xianlin on Translation”
  35. When the End Seeps into the Process, So That the Means Too Become Ends
  36. On “Benefiting Others by Serving Oneself”
  37. zzA once-in-a-century astronomical feast: July 22 · the Yangtze River total solar eclipse
  38. How to Reason with Emotion
  39. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-07-04
  40. Solar Eclipse and Ritual
  41. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-06-27
  42. Langdon Winner: Do Artifacts Have Politics? — Translated by Gu Chi
  43. The Problem of Degrees of Freedom in Love
  44. Recollecting “Political Astronomy”
  45. Random Thoughts on Abacus and Numbers
  46. [Reprint] “History of Science and Technology” Graduate Entrance Exam Questions (2009)
  47. Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-06-20
  48. 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.
  49. Mirror and Glass: Tactility and Reality (Postscript to “Aristotle’s Tactile World”)
  50. Aristotle’s Tactile World
  51. Reflections Inspired by Feeling
  52. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-06-13
  53. A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:
  54. This Issue’s Music: Jordi Savall: Celtic Double Bass: The Musical Priest / Scotch Mary [Traditional Irish]
  55. The God of Luck Appeared to Me~
  56. How wonderful it is to fly through the air and kiss the earth when it rains…
  57. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]
  58. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon, 09-05-30 [and a Preview of the Next Round of Salons]
  59. Notes from the New Island Salon, 09-05-23
  60. The Responsibility of the Communicator
  61. Contracts and Spells in Love
  62. Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys
  63. Philosophy and Poetry
  64. Today’s Xindao Salon Jottings 09-05-16
  65. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09
  66. Reading an Einstein Biography
  67. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02
  68. Latour: Drawing Things Together Class Report
  69. Reading Notes on “Science in Action” (Prepared for the classroom report on Latour: Drawing Things Together)
  70. Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25
  71. Translating “natural history” as “natural history” is also not bad
  72. Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18
  73. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-11
  74. [A Quick Science Explainer][Repost] Allergic Rhinitis
  75. On the Original Content of My Philosophy
  76. Remembering Illness While Ill
  77. On How to Write a Book Report
  78. My philosophy lacks healing power
  79. Speaking of Childhood’s First Dream
  80. Several Scenes from Childhood Memory: Cats, Rain, Streets, Beads, and Chess
  81. (Expired) Unless something comes up, every Saturday I’ll be in the window-side corner of the non-smoking area at Xindao
  82. On “Fate”
  83. Relationism and the Philosophy of Communication
  84. [German] Josef Pieper: “Leisure: The Basis of Culture” — ★
  85. Philosophical Style and Attitudes Toward Love
  86. Chen Jiaying: The Influence of Translations of Western Thought on Contemporary Chinese Reasoning
  87. [Let This Stand as a Record] Beijing Temperatures Are Skyrocketing; Today’s High Could Reach 23°C
  88. About Rainwater, Let Me Say a Few Mystical Things Too; I Haven’t Forgotten That I Am Rain
  89. This Issue’s Music: Händel Harp Concerto, Op. 4 No. 6 – Allegro
  90. On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy
  91. The Moral Law Above My Head and the Starry Sky in My Heart
  92. Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao
  93. New Island Dialogues, Zero: Cafés and Scholarship
  94. On “Tucao” (吐嘈)
  95. What Is Questioning? — On the Search for Possibility, Again
  96. Yu Zemin: “Seeing Europe in Cafés,” Shandong Pictorial Publishing House, 2007
  97. Bach’s Cantata No. 211, “Coffee”
  98. zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society
  99. This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”
  100. [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)
  101. I Won’t Date in Cafés.
  102. On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)
  103. Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007
  104. A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks
  105. A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival
  106. This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.
  107. How Do I Read?
  108. Four Readings of “Scholarship”
  109. JOKER! — The Clown, the One Who Tells Jokes, the Wild Card, the Big Joker, the King.
  110. The Structure of a Pirate Ship
  111. What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?
  112. How Is Scientific Realism Possible?
  113. On My Research Plan for the Next Few Years—Coursework for Reading and Writing
  114. Philosophy and Nudity
  115. Why Do You Read or Not Read My Articles?
  116. Preliminary Completion of Keyword Addition Work
  117. This Episode’s Music: Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
  118. There Are No Experts in Philosophy

2008120

  1. Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
  2. From Fisherman to Pirate
  3. [New Pinned] Message Board
  4. Classroom Presentation Script on Realism and Anti-Realism
  5. [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables
  6. I Recently Started Writing a Log on the Campus Network
  7. At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation
  8. An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm
  9. How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper
  10. This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)
  11. The Mechanization of “Force”
  12. “The Philosophy of Online Games”
  13. The Labyrinth of Concepts
  14. A reclusive thinker, an otaku thirsty for knowledge (an image test)
  15. My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…
  16. A Set of Questions About Falling in Love
  17. This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)
  18. 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
  19. A Collection of Questions on the Mung Bean Distribution Problem and a Summary
  20. [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 60: “Collapse”…
  21. Supplementary Notes and Self-Introduction Following “Zheng mm”
  22. Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival
  23. [Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese
  24. This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain
  25. Why Do I Need Ethics? — An Unconventional Introductory Book on Ethics
  26. 【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】
  27. The Hard Drive Broke…
  28. Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)
  29. Marxist Human Studies / Text Excerpts from a Philosophy of Technology Class Presentation
  30. The Joy of “Dissatisfaction”
  31. The Philosopher’s “Manifest” and “Hidden”
  32. [Unpinned][Pinned 2] An Introduction to Gu Chi, Contact Information, and Comments and Questions
  33. The replacement of “freedom” by “equality” is the common root of the predicament of modern science and modern democracy
  34. An Essay on Freedom of Speech
  35. [US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)
  36. How I Came to Approach Philosophy of Science (A Whig History)
  37. About My Private Residence
  38. [Spanish] Fernando Savater: “The Invitation to Ethics” —★
  39. ———————————Draw a dividing line———————————
  40. This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement
  41. Violent Sanctions Are a Helpless Compensation for the Limits of Reason
  42. Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”
  43. What Is “Ideal”?
  44. Revisiting the Meaning of “Suixuan”
  45. A Fourth Talk on the Olympics—Assorted Remarks and Miscellaneous Commentary
  46. Re-reading “Big Questions—A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
  47. This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
  48. A Third Discussion of the Olympics: Gold Medals and Patriotism
  49. [Repost] Yali’s piece about Liu Xiang’s withdrawal from the race is quite interesting~
  50. A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games
  51. Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)
  52. A Few Words on “Olympic” — “Olympic Game”
  53. A “Systematic Study” Plan for Philosophy of Science
  54. What Is the Difference Between Philosophy and Natural History?
  55. Thinking of EVA
  56. Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying
  57. Scattered Reflections on Love and Hate During My Retreat
  58. Following the Grain and Finding Order: “Li means to work jade.”
  59. “‘Pen’ Notes” During My Retreat in 2008
  60. Writing Is a Kind of Outpouring
  61. Seven Subjects of Moral Education (How to Do Moral Education?)
  62. A Brief Note on “Wandering in the Clouds” (1)
  63. This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)
  64. [Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong
  65. “United in Hatred Against the Enemy” and “Hating Evil as Though It Were an Enemy”: I Can’t Do That.
  66. A Tour Guide to the Mathematical World — “Two-Dimensional at Home and Abroad”
  67. A Loose Talk on “Reasonable” and “Lawful” — Why Is Violent Revolution Unreasonable?
  68. On BBS’s Suitability for Academic Exchange: Online Forums Should Replace Academic Conferences
  69. On the Fan Paopao Incident
  70. Reading and Freedom (I)
  71. Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree
  72. This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”
  73. [U.S.] Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving——☆
  74. An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)
  75. [U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★
  76. Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom
  77. Only when one can love the whole world and all people can one truly love a single person.
  78. Kantian Ethics and “Anthropocentrism” (Draft)
  79. On the Olympics on the Blogs of Two Teacher Wus
  80. Some of the Text I Posted on KKBBS During My Seclusion
  81. Comeback Preview~
  82. Secluding Myself and Shutting Down the Blog
  83. Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism
  84. The Inertia of the Bystander
  85. Things This Semester
  86. Philosophy of Media: An Introduction
  87. “Love” as the Ultimate Meaning
  88. Philosophy of Love: Introduction
  89. What Logic Do We Use in Everyday Discussion?
  90. Value and Rights—The Ethics of Reification
  91. Text Is Principle
  92. This Episode’s Music: “The Song of Scientism” (Super Star)
  93. The Benefits of Mathematical and Logical Training for Studying Philosophy
  94. What Exactly Does Philosophy Study?
  95. What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?
  96. [Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆
  97. Wishing Everyone a Happy Spring Festival!
  98. The Train Was 7 and a Half Hours Late…
  99. On Feyerabend Quotations 5 (Philosophy, Science, and Language Games)
  100. Sense of Responsibility
  101. Nonsense about “Feeling”
  102. The Difference Between “Argumentation” and “Bamboozling”
  103. Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism
  104. On “Feyerabend Quotations”
  105. [Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”
  106. The Politics and Jurisprudence Behind the Philosophy of Science
  107. How to “Persuade” Extreme Irrationalists?
  108. [Repost] What Is Whig History? (“Whig History” and “Contemporary History,” Whig History of Mathematics and Whig History of Philosophy, and So On)
  109. Singing Karaoke at 17 Mile, 2008-1-16
  110. The Search for “Possibility”
  111. Talking Again About Guo Degang
  112. Inner Sense, Outer Sense, Time, Space…
  113. Impressions and Notes on Heidegger and Schopenhauer
  114. The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time
  115. A Tentative Discussion of Schopenhauer’s Spirit of Rationalism
  116. This Issue’s Music: Elisha’s Smile — from Chuck Brown’s Deep Breath
  117. 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
  118. On “Tian Song: Why Does a Human Animal Drink the Milk of a Cow Animal?”
  119. Relativism and Absolutism Are Birds of a Feather
  120. On “Feyerabend Quotations 3 and 4” (Prescribing Remedies for the Age and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Etc.)

2007272

  1. This Episode’s Music: BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Rejoice in God)
  2. Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
  3. Lecture 45 of the Keke Forum: A Casual Discussion of Transnational Research in the History of Science (December 14)
  4. Words and Fragments, Episode 5
  5. On “Quantification”
  6. Tsinghua Philosophy of Science and Technology Salon: What Are Environmental Problems? (December 7)
  7. Reflections on Revisiting an Old Piece
  8. [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology
  9. In Praise of the Abacus?
  10. This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P
  11. Lecture 44 of the Keke Forum: History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science (November 30)
  12. — Lecture Six in the School History and School Spirit Series, “Youthful Peking University, the Splendid Years of Yanyuan”
  13. Notes from Zhongguancun (1)
  14. This Week’s Music: Prokofiev _ Violin Concerto No. 1 _ I. Andantino
  15. Recent Miscellaneous Notes on Life (November 22, 2007)
  16. Whose Responsibility? — An Excerpt from a Case Study
  17. [Repost] Catholic and Orthodox Churches May Be Reunited; the Pope as “First Bishop”
  18. Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom
  19. Words and Fragments, Episode 4
  20. This Issue’s Music: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 881
  21. Reading as a Way of Thinking
  22. “Anthropocentrism” and “Pride” as the Root of Sin: A Collaborative Research Proposal
  23. Lecture 42 of the Science Forum: Science Matters (November 9)
  24. Philosophy and I: The Romance Chapter
  25. [U.S.] Daniel Hausman, ed.: The Philosophy of Economics
  26. [Repost] Triangle Floor (Ceiling)
  27. [Repost] Teaching evaluation is irresistible / Tearing down Peking University’s Triangle Ground, the university says it is only dismantling an information board
  28. Keke Forum Lecture 41: Two Kinds of Local Knowledge (November 2)
  29. Fragments, Episode 3
  30. This Week’s Music: Harmonica Solo: The Dance Partner in My Dreams
  31. [Spanish] Fernando Savater: “An Invitation to Philosophy—The Questions of Life” —☆
  32. [U.S.] Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics
  33. The Philosopher’s Basics
  34. Mathematics Is a Technical Craft… Some Additional Notes on Learning High School Mathematics
  35. [English] John Lloyd, John Mitchinson: The Book of General Ignorance — 200 Questions People Commonly Overlook
  36. Music of This Issue: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  37. A Reading Report on Schopenhauer
  38. [Canada] Sergio Sismondo: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
  39. [Repost] Funeral Industry Launches Graduate In-Service Training Class; Practitioners Can Attend Peking University to Study Philosophy
  40. On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”
  41. Materials: A Four-Person Trip to Chuandixia–Lingshan in May 2005
  42. On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi
  43. [Repost] The CCP’s First Time Writing “Ecological Civilization” into a Party Congress Political Report
  44. This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)
  45. [France] Tony Anatrella: “The Forgotten Sex”
  46. Is the Struggle Aspect of Contradictions Absolute?
  47. [Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners
  48. [Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆
  49. [Repost] Notice of Results for Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Applicants
  50. This Episode’s Music: Azurite (Heroic Age ED)
  51. What Is “Literature”?
  52. Is Literature Human Studies? — A Response
  53. [France] Michel Manson: “The Eternal Toy”
  54. Peddling Philosophy of Science and Technology (III)
  55. I’m Still Just a Child~!
  56. This Episode’s Music: Bandari: Childhood
  57. Plans for My Senior Year~~
  58. [Repost] Do We Need a Revival of Faith? (Xu Youyu)
  59. Restating Scientific Pluralism from a Classical Starting Point
  60. Finally Done with the Interview~~
  61. The Question of Choosing a Secretary
  62. [Repost] Peking University Master’s Degree Admissions Program Directory
  63. The “Exchange Meeting Between New and Old Students” Is Really Depressing
  64. This Issue’s Music: The Wanderer’s Song of Joy from the Arab Song Feast
  65. Bits and Pieces, Episode Two
  66. Pitching Philosophy of Science and Technology (II)
  67. On the Principle of Sufficient Reason
  68. Peddling the Philosophy of Science
  69. On Smoking
  70. I’m out of quarantine~
  71. This Episode’s Music: Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009, 6. Gigue (Jig)
  72. Ideal
  73. Friend
  74. Peking University 2008 Admission of Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Students: Personal Statement
  75. [U.S.] Robert Fogelin: “Walking on the Tightrope of Reason”
  76. Doing Philosophy Is Like Building a House
  77. On the Peng Yu Case
  78. The stock market involves risks…
  79. Three Years of Undergraduate Transcripts
  80. The Rainbow Beside Me
  81. This Issue’s Music: The Season of Love – from The Time Traveler Who Left My Heart in the Aegean Sea
  82. [American] Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi: “The God Particle”
  83. On the Problem of Wealth Inequality in China
  84. Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered
  85. On Certain Matters
  86. On the “Ungrateful Poor College Student” Incident
  87. On the Current Situation of Suixuan
  88. First Entering Yanyuan
  89. This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement
  90. Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”
  91. Reflections on the Social Practice Project “The Preservation of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism”
  92. Cooking, cooking~
  93. [U.S.] Paul Woodruff: “Reverence—A Forgotten Virtue” (Reverence) —★
  94. Bits and Pieces, Episode 1
  95. Platonic Love
  96. At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled
  97. This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music
  98. A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
  99. On Protecting Tradition and What Tradition Is, and So On
  100. The legendary CET-6~~
  101. What Is the Olympics?
  102. On “To Exist Is to Be Perceived”
  103. [Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing
  104. James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
  105. A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: East China Normal University Second Affiliated High School
  106. This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope
  107. A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification
  108. Back in Shanghai~
  109. Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
  110. The Mathematics Circle Series, Hunan Science and Technology Press, June 2007
  111. [Eng] Brendan Wilson: “A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
  112. [U.S.] Dan Brown: Digital Fortress
  113. Simon Critchley: “Hello, Humor”
  114. This Issue’s Music: БРАТЬЯ (Burāchiya) (Brothers) (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  115. Chat Transcript on Marxist Philosophy and New Students
  116. The 500th blog post~!
  117. [U.S.] Robert M. Pirsig: “The World of Fathers and Sons” (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) — ☆
  118. [U.S.] Nicolas Darvas: “I Survived the Stock Market”
  119. [Korean] Zheng Zaicheng: “The Science Concert”
  120. [Repost] Is full English-language instruction in the philosophy department worth promoting?
  121. This Issue’s Music: Pachelbel, Canon
  122. [Eng.] Edited by Mick O’Hare: Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?
  123. [Eng] John Cottingham: “Is Life Meaningful?”
  124. [Reposted] The Influence of Color on People
  125. [ENG] Michael Gregoriou: “Kant’s Curse—A Murder Case of Pure Reason”
  126. [US] T. Dantzig: “Numbers: The Language of Science”
  127. [France] Brigitte Labbé, Michel Puech: “A Philosophy Primer for Children”
  128. [English] Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence
  129. [Eng] G•H•Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology
  130. Music of This Issue: “A Torrential Downpour,” from the Belikaden Ensemble’s “Subverting Ireland”
  131. Yanyuan, Fourth Courtyard (Writing Plan)
  132. [U.S.] Margaret Visser: “All Depends on Dinner”
  133. “A Peking University Person”
  134. [Repost] The Philosophy Department’s 2008 Preliminary Selection Format for Recommending Postgraduate Students Exempt from Entrance Examinations
  135. Today’s Xindao Salon Notes, 09-07-11
  136. This Issue’s Music: Spanish Dance (Classical Guitar)
  137. About the Papers I Have Written
  138. Brief Notes on a Trip to Shanxi
  139. [Repost] Ministry of Education: In principle, university students are not allowed to rent housing off campus
  140. [Repost] Peking University’s Graduate Admissions Spark Controversy as More Than Half Are Recommended-Exemption Students
  141. [American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
  142. Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős
  143. Music for This Issue: Kreisler: Prelude and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani
  144. Religious Language and Its Relation to Reality and Truth
  145. On a Discussion on Teachers’ Blogs: the Criterion of Truth, Pluralism, and Other Matters
  146. Suixuan Has Been Put in Place
  147. What Is So Good About a Philosophy Department? — Written for Parents
  148. Zhu Haijun: Force Does Not Need Acquired Inheritance
  149. Negative Ontology
  150. Group research may be worth considering.
  151. This Episode’s Music: Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Organ)
  152. Repost: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions
  153. Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?
  154. This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)
  155. Outline for Discussion on “Religious Knowledge”
  156. Yangroupao Residence Renamed Winter-Cold-Summer-Hot Residence…
  157. The Poor Supporting Characters… Do You Still Remember These Three People?
  158. A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia
  159. The Starry Sky Belongs to Children
  160. This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
  161. Yilin’s Little Retreat
  162. [Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens
  163. [Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007
  164. [Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)
  165. “Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
  166. A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
  167. [Repost] About Philosophy in Secondary School and Philosophy Departments
  168. The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
  169. This Issue’s Music: Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk (guqin)
  170. The Mood for Going to a Café
  171. Under Construction… Under Construction…
  172. This Week’s Music: Sunshine On My Shoulders
  173. [English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★
  174. [Repost] Since April, Various Places Have Been Strictly Cracking Down on the Illegal Terror-Related Publication Death Note
  175. Everything Has Yet to Begin
  176. The Dialectics of Nature Course Taught by the Teachers
  177. I Don’t Like Meditation; I Like Spacing Out
  178. This Issue’s Music: Prairie Dawn (Morin Khuur)
  179. The Eternal Dragon Ball
  180. Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
  181. In ordinary times, one should write more blog posts as an outlet
  182. Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism
  183. This Issue’s Music: Orff, Carmina Burana
  184. Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)
  185. Lawns Are Meant to Be Trampled!
  186. Theory Is Not Merely a Set of Propositions or Statements; A Theoretical System Cannot Be Self-Contained
  187. Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics
  188. This Issue’s Music: Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor for Strings (BWV 1052)
  189. Virtue, Reason, and Spirit
  190. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: An Interpretation of the University
  191. On “the Sublime”
  192. This Issue’s Music: George Winston – The Earth – Holding Your Hand
  193. Outline for a Discussion of the Philosophy of Religion: Does the Sacred Reality in Religious Experience Really Exist? How Can We Know?
  194. [Repost] What Do Philosophy Graduates Go On to Do?
  195. Chewing on Pure Critique by the Shores of Weiming Lake
  196. This Issue’s Music: Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey)
  197. Are There Hierarchies of Value, Higher and Lower, Noble and Mean?
  198. Student salons are still worth doing
  199. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Is Palmistry Materialism?
  200. Is “Xincai” Being Released Again?
  201. On Music and Poetry
  202. The 400th blog post~
  203. Outline for the First Discussion in the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
  204. This Issue’s Music: Peasant Dance
  205. Return to Weiming Lake!
  206. Ethics Course on the Life-and-Death Question: Second Assignment — On the Value of Life
  207. Celtic Civilization and Ireland
  208. In the discussion on the teachers’ blogs: On “the freedom to engage in pseudoscience”
  209. Useless Technology? — Reflections on Mumford’s Philosophy of Technology
  210. Ecophilosophy (old piece)
  211. I Got 100 Weilan Coupons…
  212. Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
  213. April Fool’s Day…
  214. Planting Trees and Reforesting Is Not as Good as Preserving Wasteland
  215. Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?
  216. The Classic 28-Inch Bicycle
  217. I am the man who will become the Pirate King!
  218. The Difference Between Ethics and Moral Standards and Legal Norms
  219. Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)
  220. A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Science Communication from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Scientific Practice
  221. On the Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Tsinghua University Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology Salon, Session 61
  222. A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: As Lao Zhao Put It
  223. On Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Zeller, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis
  224. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: The Dirty Books Sold by the Dangdang Online Bookstore
  225. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Defining Is Not So Easy
  226. Highly Recommend “New Sayings from Peking University” — ★
  227. First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE
  228. Supplementary Questions from the Marx Lecture in the Philosophy of Technology Class
  229. Reflections on a Japanese Anime Series: Introduction: How Should We View Japanese Culture and Eastern Character?
  230. Jiang Xiaoyuan, Liu Bing: “A Babel of Voices—A Dialogue on the Relationship between Science and Culture”
  231. Excerpts from My Reading of Marx in the Philosophy of Technology Course
  232. [U.S.] Steve Silverman: “Einstein’s Refrigerator—A Different Kind of Story Collection”
  233. Going to Tsinghua to Hear Teacher Wu Talk About Philosophy of Technology
  234. Philosophy of Science as a Disciplinary Philosophy and as a Philosophical Character?
  235. On Feminism
  236. Finally Conquered CET-4
  237. What Is the Story Behind Kant’s Hundred Thalers?
  238. [Eng] Thomas Marent: “The Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps”
  239. [U.S.] Jaakko Hintikka: “Wittgenstein”
  240. On CCTV Airing a Paranormal Video
  241. [Eng] John Hick: Philosophy of Religion
  242. Jiang Xiaoyuan: “Sex Appeal—A Cultural Interpretation”
  243. [French] R. Shep et al. (interview): “The Empire of Technology”
  244. [Dutch] R. Hooykaas: “Religion and the Rise of Modern Science”
  245. [Japan] Naoki Komuro: “For Those Who Dislike Mathematics—An Engaging Reader That Reveals the Mysteries of Mathematics”
  246. [EN] Frank Furedi: “Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?” —☆
  247. [English] John Barrow: “Art and the Universe”
  248. [U.S.] Stephen J. Pyne: “A Brief History of Fire”
  249. Robert E.D. Clark: “Science and Christian Faith”
  250. [U.S.] Charles Simpson: “Doing Scholarship Honestly—From Freshman to Professor”
  251. [U.S.] George Marsden: “Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism”
  252. Tension Is Harmony
  253. [U.S.] George O. Abel et al., Science and the Weird
  254. [U.S.] Neil Postman: “The Disappearance of Childhood” —☆
  255. [French] Émile Noël: “Darwinism Today”
  256. [Japan] Yamazaki Shigeaki: Misconduct by Scientists—Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism
  257. [Eng] Merrill Davis: “Darwin and Fundamentalism”
  258. [U.S.] Joseph Mazur: “Euclid in the Rainforest—A Narrative Brief History of Mathematics”—★
  259. [English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”
  260. “The Soul of Science,” “The Dragon-Slaying Saber of Calculus,” “The Stolen Harvest”
  261. Comments on the Introduction to Religious Studies Course
  262. [Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”
  263. Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto
  264. The Lamb Stew Dwelling
  265. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
  266. Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?
  267. Kuhn’s Historicism as a Rebuttal to Popper’s Philosophy of History
  268. How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)
  269. How Am I a Marxist?
  270. On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Can All Problems Brought by Science Be Solved by Science?
  271. The Religious Questions I Care About
  272. The Reformation and the Scientific Revolution

2006208

  1. The First Snow of 2006.
  2. Run Lola Run and the Age of Games
  3. The Globalization of Media Culture
  4. Recently in seclusion…
  5. Christianity as I Have Seen It & Christianity as I Understand It & Christianity as I Imagine It
  6. In the Epistle to the Romans, how did Paul understand Jesus’ Passion?
  7. Similarities and Differences Between Modern Science and Classical Greek Science
  8. A Brief Discussion of the Popularization of Philosophy (Final Published Version)
  9. A Very Comprehensive Analysis of Scorpio
  10. Why Should We Have “Cultural Self-Awareness”?
  11. Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore
  12. Film and Television Appreciation Midterm Assignment
  13. Some Loose Thoughts on “Democracy”
  14. Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death, translated by Zhang Yan, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004
  15. What Day Is November 10?
  16. A Discussion of the Question of Abolishing Traditional Chinese Medicine
  17. A Supplement on “Preserving Common Ground While Seeking Differences”
  18. When the Fisherman Meets the Shepherd
  19. Preserving Common Ground, Seeking Difference—A Pluralist View of Dialogue
  20. [Eng.] McGrath: Introduction to Christianity, translated by Ma Shulin and Sun Yi, Peking University Press, 2003
  21. What Is Art? — On Whether “Super Girl” Is Art
  22. Actuality and Possibility; and the Question of Academic Norms
  23. A Frog Metaphor for Ancient Chinese Science
  24. What Do the Mythic Theology, Civic Theology, and Natural Theology of Ancient Greece and Rome Refer To, and How Are They Related?
  25. Draft of the First Three Parts of Popper’s Essay on the Philosophy of History
  26. Some Questions from the Classroom Discussion on “Studies of Globalization Issues”
  27. The Basic Features of Hellenistic Science as Seen from Ptolemaic Astronomy
  28. What Should “Commodity” Be?
  29. On the A Yi “Crying Poor” Incident
  30. On Learning Middle School Mathematics
  31. The Tautology of “Survival of the Fittest”
  32. From “Pursuit” to “Demand” — The Idea of “Truth, Goodness, and Beauty”
  33. The Philosophy of History Is Quite Interesting
  34. Recent Life Jottings (October 1, 2006)
  35. Let me post a few earlier photos (the frozen Weiming Lake, heavy snow, a 28-inch bicycle)
  36. From “Life Is Like a Play” to “Money Worship”
  37. Nineteen Eighty-Four
  38. The Actual Effect of the Philosophy Popularization Display Boards
  39. The Guangling Melody
  40. In Deep Mourning for Hu Gende: Memorial Service—Words of Thanks
  41. Grandfather
  42. Grandpa, rest in peace
  43. A Casual Repost from Teacher Liu’s Blog on Agriculture, Industrial Civilization, and “Progress”
  44. On Patent and Copyright Protection
  45. Revere Without Worshipping, Believe Without Reciting, Transmit Without Teaching
  46. Stream of Consciousness (Old Post)
  47. Some Fun Problems, Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
  48. Selected Philosophical Aphorisms
  49. It is when the sky is darkest that people see the stars. — Emerson
  50. Everything Is Unprepared, Yet the East Wind Blows Quite Fiercely—Disappointed Once Again in Education Reform
  51. Draft Text for a Philosophy Popularization Display Board
  52. A Complete Guide to Buying Books in Shanghai, Beijing, and Online
  53. Wristwatch
  54. Constellations and Self-Confidence
  55. Do Not Forget Popularization
  56. The Mathematical Roots of Postmodern Thought
  57. Spoofs, Media, and Random Reflections
  58. Better to Be a Hypocrite Than a Real Villain
  59. A Sand County Almanac
  60. Remembering the Observatorium of Gezhi Middle School
  61. Brave New World
  62. Can You See a Rainbow Over the Sea?
  63. In Defense of Intuitionism
  64. Some Interesting Problems, II: To Change or Not to Change?
  65. You chose it yourself, and you’ll still refuse to admit you were wrong
  66. God and Immortality
  67. On “Gu Chi”
  68. Preliminary Thoughts on “Intuitionism”
  69. One of a Few Puzzlers: The Three-Person Peach Juice Problem
  70. A Dialogue on the Fourth Floor of a Building Without a Fourth Floor
  71. Reason and Ultimate Concern—An Attempt to Examine Why Mature Rational People Seek Religion
  72. The Paradox of Boring Games
  73. A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing
  74. A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up: An Interlude on Games
  75. A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: Donggezhi Middle School
  76. To Get Thoroughly Soaked in the Rain
  77. A Few Random Recollections of My Growing Up: An Interlude on My Hometown
  78. An Email about “Sociology of Religion”
  79. Summer Reading Notes, 2006
  80. Predetermination as Vast as the Sea, Freedom as Small as a Boat
  81. A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years (Part Two: Cao Guangbiao Primary School)
  82. An Analysis of “The Half-Fee Lawsuit”
  83. Long live Italy!
  84. A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up (Part 1: Before Fourth Grade in Elementary School)
  85. Kant’s Significance for the Philosophy of Science
  86. Some Casual Notes Before the World Cup Semifinals
  87. Application for “Friends of Nature”
  88. Stray——Wolf’s Rain Opening Theme Song
  89. A Classified Summary of Reference Works on Science and Religion
  90. Faith in Science and Finding a Wife
  91. An Analysis of the “Sudden Drill Paradox”
  92. My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active
  93. A Tentative Account of the Problems Facing Contemporary Philosophy of Nature and Its Possible Directions of Development
  94. Defending Science with Religion.
  95. A Discussion of “Shuangfei” — Reposting an Earlier Article and Comments from Teacher Liu’s Blog
  96. Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker, translated by Wang Delun, Chongqing Publishing House and Hainan Publishing House, May 2005
  97. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  98. A Survey of the Books I Scored on Kongfuzi This Semester
  99. 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.
  100. How Can We Promote Technological Innovation?
  101. We Should Not Deny the Progress of Science
  102. From Afar It Looks Like Art, Up Close It Looks Like Religion
  103. Old-School Peanut Butter Instant Cold Noodles~
  104. How to Fall in Love with Mathematics
  105. Science and Judgment
  106. I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!
  107. A Preliminary Analysis of the “Surprise Drill Paradox”
  108. Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions
  109. Philosophy of Science Assignment 060519
  110. Expanded Bibliography on Science and Religion
  111. [Repost][Recommended] Recommended Websites for High-Quality Design Resources
  112. Preface to the Fortieth Issue of “Gongqingyuan”
  113. The Spirit of Sport and Human Culture
  114. Not a Fool
  115. The Reference Books Related to “Science and Religion” Currently on My Bookshelf
  116. Demonstrating Chaos with Excel!
  117. The Expansion of “Matter”
  118. Ode to Wind and Sand
  119. A Rambling Talk on Science pp
  120. Natural History and History
  121. Modern Science and Religion (Research Plan)
  122. Plato’s Café
  123. Education, Reform, and Egalitarianism
  124. The 200th blog post~
  125. Philosophy Has Become “Technique”
  126. If you can’t live without it, can’t you rebel against it?
  127. [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
  128. In Memory of My Maternal Grandfather
  129. Exercises in Philosophy of Science: Chapter 2 (Scientific Explanation)
  130. Constructing a DN Account of Leopold’s Essay (Thinking Like a Mountain);
  131. A Disappointing Marxist Philosophy Forum
  132. Xiao Gu Talks Quantum Physics (Colloquial Edition) — Lecture One: The Gains of Not Understanding
  133. Science—Seen from a Religious Perspective
  134. Human Nature and Human Essence—A Discussion in Everyday Language
  135. Xu Jinhua’s Lecture
  136. Some Counterfactual Conditionals in the Natural Sciences
  137. The Religious Views of Great Scientists: Quotation Piling
  138. What Does Scientific Explanation Explain?
  139. Further Thoughts on Guo Degang
  140. On “Preaching the Gospel and Popularizing Science”
  141. The Thinker Fixated on Expectation
  142. Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit
  143. Causality and Scientific Explanation
  144. Starting with Lottery Predictions
  145. Colors of the Wind
  146. Causality, Premonition, Free Will, Paranormal Powers, Scientific Explanation
  147. The Superstition of Economics
  148. On Zhang Weiying and Reform
  149. “A Pitch-Black Void”
  150. A Scientific Explanation of Rainbows
  151. Revering Science
  152. Finding Life’s Truths in Scientific Laws (I)
  153. Some Reflections on Confucius’s Birthday and China’s Teachers’ Day
  154. Could It Be That My Article “Gongqingyuan” Cannot Be Used?
  155. Exercises for Philosophy of Science: Chapter One
  156. Four Ways of Understanding the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
  157. I read a crank-science paper… @_@
  158. G. E. R. Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle
  159. Medicine and Science—A Reflection on the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
  160. Liu Huajie: “Not Everything Enshrined in the Hall Is a Buddha” (Including Some Free Thoughts on Needham’s Question)
  161. Does Life Have Meaning or Not?
  162. Preliminary Thoughts on Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
  163. The Significance of Psychology for the Philosophy of Science and Technology
  164. Brief Notes from the First/Third/Fourth Day of Classes in the New Semester
  165. Liu Huajie: “China-like Science—From the Perspectives of Philosophy and Sociology”
  166. The Significance of Mathematics and Logic for Philosophy of Science
  167. A Few Metaphors About “Drawing Boundaries”—Reflections Organized from My Winter Vacation Reading in 2006 (1)
  168. [Austrian] Erwin Schrödinger: “Nature and Ancient Greece”
  169. Huang Aihe (Interview): “Drift—The Story of Peking University Scholar Liu Huajie”
  170. [U.S.] Gerald Holton: “Science and Anti-Science”
  171. Winter Vacation Reading Notes, 2006: Introduction / Conclusion / Contents
  172. [French] Jean Ladrière: “The Challenge of Science and Technology to Culture”
  173. [U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”
  174. Wang Hongbo and Ma Jianbo, eds., Crossing the Chasm—Science in a Cultural Perspective
  175. [U.S.] Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: “Tilted Truth—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution”
  176. A Call for Submissions for “Gongqingyuan”～～
  177. [U.S.] Edwin Arthur Burtt: “The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science”
  178. [Eng] F. Bacon: Essays
  179. [German] Rickert: “Cultural Science and Natural Science”
  180. [Eng.] Raymond Firth: “Human Types,” translated by Fei Xiaotong
  181. Noya Keiichi: “Kuhn—Paradigm”
  182. [Fr.] Poincaré: “Last Thoughts”
  183. Two Leisurely Books: “The Shards of God” and “The Universe of Spirit”
  184. Tian Song: “Don Quixote’s Lance”
  185. It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese
  186. Jin Kemu: “Candle Flame Ashes—The Melody of Thought”
  187. [German] Feuerbach: “The Essence of Religion”
  188. “A Philosophical History of Poetry”: “A Feast of Thought”
  189. Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”
  190. A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”
  191. [Eng] Martin Oliver: “The History of Philosophy”
  192. Fang Zhouzi: “Ulcer—Confronting Academic Corruption in China”
  193. [German] Ernst Cassirer: An Essay on Man
  194. [German] Luckmann: “The Invisible Religion”
  195. Zhao Lin: “Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion,” Wuhan University Press, April 2005
  196. Sun Xiaoli, editor: Philosophical Debates on Modern Science
  197. [U.S.] Tom Rockmore: “Hegel: Before and After”
  198. Deng Xiaomang: Lectures on Hegel’s Dialectic
  199. Zhao Tingyang: “On Possible Life”
  200. Selected Diary Entries of Kierkegaard
  201. Cao Tianyuan (Capo): “Does God Play Dice? — A History of Quantum Physics”
  202. A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun
  203. Some Discussions on Politics and Education
  204. Ice Skating Is So Fun~~
  205. On the South China Tiger Incident
  206. I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)
  207. 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)
  208. What Do I “Want” to Do?

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  1. Keep a Proper Mindset!
  2. The Greatest Root of Nihilism
  3. Why I Chose Philosophy of Science
  4. My View of Life (and Supplement)
  5. The 100th Blog Post~
  6. Caution in Speech and Writing
  7. “Keyword Fever Syndrome”
  8. Philosophy’s Critical Spirit and the “Critical” Spirit of Folk Philosophy
  9. Under the Same Starry Sky—Kant’s Views on Science and Religion
  10. Kant: On a clear night, gazing up at the starry sky…
  11. On the Attitude Toward “Chinese Traditional Values” and “Western Modern Values”
  12. Kant and Husserl—Scattered Affinities from Reading the History of Philosophy
  13. The Difference Between Me and Dogmatism or Relativism—Please Pay Attention to the Basis of All My Arguments
  14. Arrogant Humility?
  15. Collected Final Exam Essay Questions for the Modern Western Philosophy Course (Combined)
  16. He Qinglian: “We Are Still Looking Up at the Starry Sky”
  17. A SWOT Analysis of a Double Degree…
  18. Annotations on the Analects…………
  19. “I Can Do It” and True Courage
  20. [U.S.] R. P. Feynman: “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
  21. Knowing—Thinking—Saying—Writing—Doing
  22. Pearls and Strings
  23. Let me explain why this place is called “Suixuan”~
  24. I’ve kind of regained the feeling of writing essays in high school~
  25. Is Science and Technology the Primary Productive Force?
  26. Heh-heh, an essay from middle school days…
  27. Kant’s Space-Time and Hawking’s Universe — Kant’s View of Science and Modern Physics
  28. The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity
  29. If You Fall Behind, Do You Get Beaten?
  30. The Shortcomings of “Eradicating Feudal Superstition”
  31. Science Has No Absolute Truth… But Is There Absolute Error? (And a Supplement)
  32. What I Want to Build Is a Garden
  33. I despise plagiarism in academic papers!
  34. On Fate
  35. Three Stages of Reading Philosophy: “Seeing Mountains as Mountains”
  36. The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang
  37. What makes us human is, quite simply, that only humans can restrain beastliness with reason, thereby sublimating human nature into sensibility.
  38. The Starry Sky in My Heart
  39. Remove the dross, keep the essence?
  40. The Tree of Philosophy [US] Pang Sifen / author Zhai Pengxiao / translator Wang Lingyun / proofreader Guangxi Normal University Press 2005.5
  41. Silent Wonder
  42. A Post and My Reply (About Speaking Out Online)
  43. Supplementary Ideological Report for Party Membership Confirmation
  44. Returning from Military Training
  45. On “Speaking of Principles”
  46. Feynman: Poets Always Say That Scientists Cannot See the Beauty of the Planets—
  47. Compiled Q&A for Philosophy Department Freshmen
  48. TV science education is a stronghold for spreading pseudoscience!
  49. The Grand Unification of Philosophy (an essay from my high school years): Excerpts and Notes
  50. Application for Confirmation of Party Membership
  51. Summer Vacation Notes from 2002
  52. Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
  53. Philosophy of the Starry Sky
  54. The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy
  55. A Complex of Rain
  56. Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)
  57. A Brief Discussion of Political Culture and Social Forms in the Mongol-Yuan Period
  58. Speak Less
  59. My View of the Germination of Capitalism in China (An Article from My High School Years)
  60. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by
  61. An Introductory Philosophy Paper
  62. On Looking Down from on High
  63. Transcendent Amid the Mundane World
  64. The Best Formation…
  65. Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra for Destroying All Evil Destinies
  66. Reference Bibliography for Ecology Philosophy
  67. A Letter to First-Year Philosophy Students
  68. A Short History of Nearly Everything [U.S.] Bill Bryson / by
  69. The Demon-Haunted World [U.S.] Carl Sagan / author
  70. Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song
  71. Constellations, Easter Island, and the Predicament of Popular Science