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  1. Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
  2. Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
  3. From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
  4. 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”
  5. From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears
  6. Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
  7. Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
  8. AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age
  9. Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
  10. The whole world has erupted into a shouting match—what right does a museum have to step in and play peacemaker?
  11. If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
  12. Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?
  13. Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  14. Will AI Restructure the History of Science?
  15. How to Be a Punk Philosopher
  16. “Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09
  17. The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks
  18. Opening Remarks for the Brain-Computer Interface Forum: Interface or Port?
  19. Let Beibei Become Someone Different from Yang Weiwei
  20. The Media Matrix and the Livestream Preview
  21. Email Subscription Has Been Re-enabled
  22. The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
  23. The Network State and Its Technological Foundations
  24. How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New
  25. The Linguistics of the Life Sciences: From Mechanical Analogies to Teleological Analogies—Preface to the Recommended Chinese Translation of The Book of Life
  26. In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”
  27. Museums in a Changing Society
  28. Encrypted Flight Vol. 11 | Will Tsinghua People Who Have Gone Out Dream of a Bitcoin-Standard World? An Interview with Hu Yilin
  29. Reading: A Bridge to the Future
  30. Talking About Trump
  31. On the Left’s Self-dug Grave
  32. In the Age of AI, What Is Philosophy For?
  33. The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins
  34. Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism
  35. My blog keeps crashing, and I’ve had enough. I’m准备彻底 updating it. I’m currently troubleshooting the problem, so during this period the blog may look rather ugly.
  36. Common Knowledge as Life
  37. From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture
  38. The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO
  39. The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3
  40. Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed
  41. On “Fair Launch”
  42. Has NFT Failed?
  43. A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
  44. Memory Replacing Computation—A Review of Stiegler’s Technics and Time
  45. Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)
  46. Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch
  47. The Triple Greatness of the Crypto Renaissance
  48. Accelerationism vs. Alignmentism, Socialism(?)
  49. Cultivating a Cultural Atmosphere That Pursues Novelty and Interest — A Review of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  50. AI Is Sick; Web3 Is the Cure
  51. Notes on the “Network City-State”
  52. What Is Technology? (Transcript of the 25th Session of the Jishi Lecture Series)
  53. “Metaverse” from the Perspective of the History of Technology — The New Environment of the Information Revolution
  54. Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution
  55. Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)
  56. Commentary on the 2023 Exam Paper for “Media History and Media Philosophy”
  57. Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency
  58. Review of Radical Markets: Also on Why the Crypto Movement Should Be Radical
  59. Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
  60. How Is a History of Technological Thought Possible? — Mumford’s Historiographical Method as Seen in Technics and Civilization
  61. On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State
  62. On Transhumanism, the Logic of Blockchain, and Huawendao: A Dialogue at SeeDAO
  63. Treating People as People: An Introduction to Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings
  64. Introduction to “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile”
  65. Do We Still Need to “Read” in the Age of “Swiping”?
  66. Summary of the Course “A General History of Technology” (Fall 2022 Semester)
  67. Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)
  68. Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT
  69. The Structure of the Historiographical Revolution — An Introduction to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  70. Unemployment or Liberation? Artificial Intelligence’s Dual Revolution
  71. Play to Action—On Human Liberation in the Digital Age
  72. NFT Value Viewed Through The Philosophy of Money
  73. 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
  74. Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation
  75. Huawendao White Paper, Version 2.1.1
  76. Confronting “Complexity” — A Review of Big Science
  77. Augmented Reality or Augmented Rationality? The Multiple Ideals of Communication Technology
  78. NFT-ifying Behavioral Histories: The Return of Value to Meaning
  79. Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?
  80. “Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Technology” Course Summary for 2022
  81. Becoming Citizens Capable of Debate—Commencement Address for the 2022 Department of History of Science Graduation Ceremony
  82. In Memory of Master Xianglong
  83. Why Is the Cat Version of “The God of Medicine” Wrong?
  84. From a Snail Shell to the Metaverse—An Evolutionary Theory of Technological “Organs”
  85. The “Nonsense” that Scientifically Combats Scientific Nonsense — Preface to Recommending Exposing Data Nonsense
  86. Heavenly Endowment
  87. The Science Museum in the Metaverse: Looking Ahead to the Future of Digital Collectibles
  88. Creating Something Out of Nothing — How the Metaverse Inflates Big Bubbles
  89. An Interview Transcript on Research Failure
  90. The Metaverse: the “New Continent” of the Information World
  91. Are Houses in the Metaverse Sold by Square Meter?
  92. Rebuilding the Threshold—Web3 Is Indeed a Kind of Regression into “Enclosure and Self-Exaltation,” but That May Not Necessarily Be a Bad Thing
  93. Will AI’s “Xiaowuxianggong” Go Berserk? — “Review of AI 3.0”
  94. From the Altar to the Forum: The Practical Significance of the History of Science (A Review of Modern History of Science)
  95. Historical Significance or Practical Significance? — “Science: The Endless Frontier”
  96. On VR (IV): If Houses Are Square, What’s So Strange About People Who See Squares? — On the Sensory Style of the Metaverse
  97. Course Summary for A General History of Technology, Fall 2021 (Questionnaire Summary)
  98. The Cost of Innovation: Another Kind of Lesson from the History of Technology — A Review of The Technology Trap
  99. Commentary on the Autumn 2021 Final Exam for A General History of Technology and Showcase of Outstanding Answer Papers
  100. A Guide to Understanding Media: Means Are the Measure
  101. “The World of Ideas,” “Lyceum”: An NFT Project I Imagined, 2 and 3
  102. “Investiture of the Gods”: An NFT Project I Envisioned
  103. Why Are NFTs Valuable? Rethinking NFTs and Tulips
  104. The Metaverse Is Hyperreality, Not Virtual Reality: From the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution to the Information Revolution
  105. From BTC to NFT: From Wealth to Power
  106. Biography of Things (Continued) — Educational Significance, Secondary-School Science and Technology Innovation, and the Bottleneck Problem
  107. The Biography of Objects: Methods and Significance in the History of Scientific Instruments
  108. Basic Skills in Studying Philosophy: Avoid Reifying Abstract Entities, Resist the Universalization of Holism
  109. In an increasingly impossible-to-take-seriously world, an earnest run-in with JD.com customer service
  110. NFTs and Tulip Mania
  111. “People Are Ends, Not Means” — A Critical Review of China on the Cloud
  112. Games and Its Mission
  113. On VR (3): Some VR Game Experiences and the “Auditory-Tactile Space”
  114. An Interview Transcript about Zhang Xiaoyu’s Technics and Civilization
  115. A Course Summary on Media History and Media Philosophy (Spring 2021)
  116. In the Age of Technology, What Use Is Philosophy? — On “An Introduction to Philosophy of Technology”
  117. A Few Recent Audio-Video Posts
  118. Course Summary for A General History of Technology (Fall 2020)
  119. On “What Is Technology?”: An Interview with China Science Daily
  120. Freedom of Speech and Social Media
  121. Bitcoin: Is There Little Time Left for Poor Students?
  122. “Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?
  123. The Unification of Information Technology and Information Science in the History of Information — A Review of Wu Jun’s Information Transmission
  124. The Growth History of the Scientific Spirit and the Unity of Personality
  125. Bitcoin’s New High Commemoration (II): How Far Are We from the Eternal Bull Market?
  126. Who Is the Worst in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
  127. Getting It Done in Advance — The Common Logic of Napier’s Bones and Logarithms
  128. Who Is the “Computer”? — Starting from the Relationship Between Computer and Calculator.
  129. A Conversation with Teacher Wu at the Yejiaxuan Reading Salon
  130. “A History of the Technology and Philosophical Study of Blockchain” Receives National Social Science Fund Grant
  131. In what sense is “basic science” the cause of “bottlenecking”?
  132. Is Digital Currency Beautiful? — A Review of *The New Currency War*
  133. An Interview with China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News on Questions of Science and Technology
  134. Course Outline: Philosophy of Science and Reading the Original Texts
  135. Rules for Authorship on Coauthored Papers
  136. Course Summary for General History of Technology (Spring 2020)
  137. Why Must Philosophy Be Obscure? — Reflections on a Perfect-Score Zhejiang Essay
  138. Driverless Driving: Transforming the World Like Automobiles Did? — A Review of “The Age of Automation”
  139. Hindsight in the Face of Technology—A Review of The Dark Side of Technology
  140. Can This Really Count as a General History? — The Publication of Extension of Man: A General History of Technology
  141. A Brief Q&A on Bitcoin Halving
  142. How to Write Good Reading Notes Assignments
  143. The “Atmosphere” of Online Teaching, or a New Paradigm
  144. Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis
  145. Rethinking Human Nature in the Age of Technology — A Review of Technics and Time 1
  146. Using Unequal Technology to Promote Equality
  147. Rumor: Seeking Rationality in an Absurd World
  148. Elevating the Enemy, or a Narrative Bigger Than the Grand
  149. The Meaning of “Conflation”: How the Public Can Participate in Scientific Communication
  150. Viruses: Nature’s Temper?
  151. “Preventable and Controllable” — the “Flag” of the Technological Age
  152. Why Has “From One to Infinity” Remained Popular for 70 Years?
  153. Why Is Innovation an Economic Question? — An Analysis of the Concept of Innovation from the Perspective of the History of Science and Technology
  154. Is Philosophy of Technology Useful? — Applying Philosophy of Technology in Teaching the Philosophy of Technology Course
  155. From “Information Blocks” to “Blockchains”: Blockchain as a Completion of the Internet
  156. Is an E-cigarette a Cigarette?
  157. On the Swedish Climate Girl (The Decline of the Enlightenment Spirit)
  158. On Backwardness and Getting Beaten
  159. From Spirit Photography to Face-Swapping Apps: On the Popularization and Abuse of Technology
  160. Kant on “Not Lying”
  161. Was There Confucianism in the Ancient West?
  162. On the Amazon Fire and the Amazon Outage
  163. My Qualification to Recruit PhD Students Was Revoked (with an Attached Record of Communication with Prospective Applicants)
  164. Visiting for an Exchange at Jiangsu Province Qinghe Middle School (What Kind of “General Technology” Do Middle School Students Need?)
  165. The Responsibility of Intellectuals
  166. Am I “One” or “Many”? — A Review of I Encompass All Things
  167. Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Second Year)
  168. Technology and Garbage in a Race
  169. Suixuan Is Moving
  170. The “Two Cultures” Debate Is Long Outdated
  171. Should We ‘Bid’ to Snatch Up Talent?
  172. Humans and Technology in Evolution—Technology Also Needs “Protected Areas for Diversity”
  173. Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance
  174. Salute to the Strivers! — Striving for the Capitalist or Striving for All Humanity? (Comments on 996)
  175. Who Can Sell Black Hole Photos? Visual China Can, but So Can You
  176. Upgrading One’s Worldview Is Not So Easy—A Review of Worldview
  177. Writing Robot: The Conflict Between Education and Technology
  178. Don’t Universities for the Elderly Teach You How to Play Games?
  179. From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
  180. From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course
  181. A Compilation of Feedback on the Homework for Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
  182. Is Chinese Studies Anti-Science?
  183. Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
  184. How Can Ethics in the Technological Age Welcome the Future? [Fourth Commentary]
  185. Is Eugenics Justifiable? — A Delayed Judgment [Third Review]
  186. The Abdication of Royal Power and the Reform of the International System of Units
  187. The Disappearance of “Grace” — A Second Discussion of the He Jiankui Affair
  188. “Passing the Buck” Is the Greatest Danger Exposed by the He Jiankui Incident
  189. Can VR Save Us from Our Smartphone Addiction?
  190. Viète and the Transformation of Mathematics from Antiquity to Modernity
  191. AR Glasses and the “Brain in a Vat”
  192. Review of The Meaning of Science
  193. On the Backboard — A Phenomenology of Beat Saber
  194. Course Schedule for the 2018 Fall Semester (Introduction to Philosophy of Technology + Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science)
  195. Selected Commentary on the Anji Conference
  196. On VR (II): A Stage-by-Stage Summary of the Gaming Experience
  197. Newtonian Mechanics and Modern Currency
  198. Balancing Fairness and Efficiency—Can Smart Cities Solve Beijing’s “Hard Stations”?
  199. On Shanzhai: On the Advantages of Being a Latecomer
  200. On Sexual Harassment
  201. Course Summary for “A General History of Technology” (Student Comments and Summaries of Each Lecture)
  202. On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
  203. The Spirit of Science: Struggle or Harmony?
  204. Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology
  205. What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
  206. On VR (I): The Meaning of “Immersion”
  207. On VR (I): The Meaning of “Immersion”
  208. At what “time” do we need to “check the time”?
  209. History of Science as a Nature Reserve—A Darwinian View of Science
  210. The First Reading Group of This Semester
  211. Further Supplement to PhD Admissions Requirements (Actionable Questionnaire Version) [Expired]
  212. Undergraduate General Education Course: “A General History of Technology”
  213. The “Entrepreneurial Spirit” That Breaks the Balance
  214. The “Entrepreneurial Spirit” that Breaks the Balance
  215. An Interview on Science and Technology in the Magazine China Youth
  216. The Ontological Basis of ‘Scarcity Makes Things Valuable’—With a Discussion of Why Bitcoin Is Valuable
  217. Comments on the 2nd Tsinghua Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
  218. Selected Readings in Philosophy of Science: “Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of the Mind” (Post-Lecture Notes by the Lecturer, by Jalinus)
  219. The “King of Invention” wasn’t called that for nothing—he was the one who invented “invention” itself
  220. Selected Readings in the Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “Facts, Fiction, and Forecast” (Post-lecture Notes by Jiepo Qingshan)
  221. Selected Readings in Original Works of Philosophy of Science: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (Post-class Notes by the Lecturer, by Yiduo Xiong)
  222. Selected Readings from the Original Texts of Philosophy of Science: Reichenbach (Post-Class Notes by Zhuowu)
  223. Selected Readings in Classics of Philosophy of Science: Sample In-Class Questions
  224. The First Reading Group of the New Semester
  225. Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science: Introduction
  226. Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
  227. Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
  228. On ICOs: The Future of Stocks
  229. Less Habit, More Tracing Back to the Source — A Review of The Origin of Everything
  230. Galileo as an Artist
  231. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class
  232. [A Little Grumble] You Only Realize How Annoying Procrastination Is Once You Become a Teacher
  233. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Using the Toilet
  234. On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
  235. On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
  236. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast
  237. Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident
  238. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed
  239. How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: An Introduction
  240. Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]
  241. Bitcoin: A Layperson’s Introduction
  242. Blog Update Basically Complete
  243. Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives
  244. The Blog Is Being Redesigned
  245. The Blame for “Health” Scams Shouldn’t Be Put on the Audience
  246. Science Popularization Should Stand on the Opposite Side of “Innovation”
  247. Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
  248. Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
  249. When Reading Joseph Needham, Do Not “Buy the Casket and Return the Pearl” — A Review of *The Titration of Civilization*
  250. Is the threshold for “learning” Bitcoin higher? — Also on the Different Levels of Technical Knowledge
  251. On Political Correctness (I): Political Correctness and the God’s-Eye View
  252. Lecture Notes on The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage (Postdoctoral Exit Report)
  253. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage (Postdoctoral Exit Report): Lecture Notes
  254. Commemorating Bitcoin’s New High
  255. On Phenomenology (I)
  256. My Course Plan for the History of Science Department
  257. The Origins of Technology
  258. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
  259. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
  260. Technology and Exploiting Loopholes—On Alibaba’s “Mooncake Snatching Incident”
  261. In Memory of Professor Ye Xiushan
  262. I Removed Many Registered Users from the Blog and Temporarily Closed Registration
  263. I cleaned up many registered users on the blog and temporarily disabled the registration function
  264. Is It Worth Building a Super-Large Collider?
  265. Is It Worth Building a Super-Large Particle Collider?
  266. Travel Notes from the Xichang Conference
  267. The knife really is about to fly up and cut people: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Technical Intentionality
  268. The knives are really starting to fly and cut people: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Technological Intentionality
  269. A Loose Phenomenological Discussion of “Artificial Intelligence”
  270. A “Transitional” Work — _Outmoded Wisdom_ (Afterword, Table of Contents, and Selected Images)
  271. The “Layers” of the World—A Few Words on Pokemon GO and AR
  272. “Our” Magazine, “Shared” Youth — A Commemorative Essay on “Gongqingyuan”
  273. When Results Obscure Process — “Scientific Literacy Standards” and Melamine
  274. Results Obscure Process—”Science Literacy Benchmarks” and Melamine
  275. I, Too, Will Take a Shot at the “Chinese Citizens’ Scientific Literacy Benchmark”
  276. “It Must Be Rectification of Names” — Politics, History, and Science
  277. The Self-Realization of Technology (Outline)
  278. On Mirrors (I): The Construction of Interfaces
  279. Internet + Real Estate = Free?
  280. Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo
  281. Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
  282. On Cities (1): What Is a City?
  283. The Inevitable Path to Decentralization—A Few Thoughts on Bitcoin Hard Forks, and, by the Way, on Central Bank Digital Currency
  284. On Garbage (1): From Discarded Things to Useless Things
  285. What Does the Mobile Phone Have to Do with Cooking? — The One and the Many of Technology
  286. The Structure of the Technological Revolution (Draft)
  287. Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Meeting (Benxi篇)
  288. Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Conference (Shenyang Section)
  289. Natural History or Natural Records?
  290. On Small-Class Teaching
  291. The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?
  292. Philosophical Commentary [Episode 2] “What Nice Weather” (Part I): The True Is the Point of Emphasis
  293. Philosophical Ramblings [Episode 1]: Freedom Is Like Treating Someone to a Meal
  294. Philosophical Commentary and Quips [Column Introduction] Philosophy and Life
  295. Stock Market Musings: Freedom and Stability
  296. How Should the General History of Science Be Told? — Course Summary for “General History of Science”
  297. On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course
  298. Compendium of Recommended Readings for a General History of Science
  299. A General History of Science 16: The Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
  300. Lectures on the General History of Science 15: A Special Topic in the History of Mathematics (The Mathematical Revolution)
  301. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 14: Science and the Industrial Revolution [Starting Next Week, We’ll Move to a Different Classroom]
  302. Lectures on the General History of Science 13: Science in the Age of Enlightenment
  303. Lectures on the General History of Science 12: Discussion Session
  304. Lectures on the General History of Science 11: Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution [Next Week’s Class Discussion]
  305. Lectures on the General History of Science 10: The Mechanics Revolution [Class Discussion the Week After Next]
  306. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 9: The Copernican Revolution
  307. Lectures on the General History of Science 8: Printing and the Scientific Revolution
  308. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science
  309. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 6: Special Topics in the History of Chinese Science
  310. Lectures on the General History of Science 5: Roman and Arabic Science
  311. Lectures on the General History of Science 4: Hellenistic Science
  312. Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]
  313. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 2: The Prehistory of Science
  314. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science (Introduction)
  315. This Semester’s Course Schedule
  316. On Genetically Modified Organisms
  317. Why We Don’t Need BitCNY
  318. Copernicus and Nakamoto — A Paradigm Shift in the Technological Revolution
  319. Inner Bodily Consciousness
  320. Supervisors as the Dissertation’s Imagined Adversary—Odds and Ends on Academic Papers
  321. A Summary of the Reading Group on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  322. On CC Licenses
  323. On Civil Servants
  324. An Outline of the General History of Technology
  325. Giving a Talk on the History of Science at Central China Normal University
  326. Course Outline: A Guide to Academic Research
  327. Course Outline: A General History of Science
  328. Bitcoin’s Value Depends on Holding It
  329. Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology
  330. Should Bitcoin Exchanges Have 100% Reserves?
  331. Application Scenarios for Bitcoin Multisignature Technology
  332. An Introduction to the Historiography of the General History of Technology
  333. Bitcoin and Mathematics: How Reliable Is Cryptography?
  334. Exploring the Dark Interstices — A Review of Speculation and Media
  335. Notes and Illustration Sources for “A Brief History of Scientific Culture”
  336. On the Historiographical Program for a General History of Science
  337. An Initial Exploration of Simmel’s Philosophy of Money
  338. Postscript to the Doctoral Dissertation
  339. Postdoctoral Research Plan (A History of “Trash” from the Perspective of Media Ecology)
  340. On the Bitcoin Ban Controversy
  341. MtGox Miscellany: If Something That Could Be Made Public Is Not Made Public, There Must Be Something Shady Behind It
  342. The Dark Forest and the Law of Evolution, Thought and Expression — Some Complaints about The Three-Body Problem
  343. Nandu Media’s “Bitcoin” Special Feature Interview Questionnaire
  344. Why Won’t Bitcoin Fall to Zero? — Random Thoughts on Bitcoin Market Trends
  345. On the Question of the Scientificity of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  346. Why Should Young People Publish Books?—Starting from Sounding the West, Striking the East
  347. Why Doesn’t Bitcoin Fit Gresham’s Law (Bad Money Drives Out Good)?
  348. Is Bitcoin Environmentally Friendly?
  349. Art: The Margin of Technology
  350. Toys, Mirrors, and Art (Reflections on a Seminar and a Preview)
  351. Some Thoughts on Teaching Assistants for Small-Group Discussion Sessions in General Education Elective Courses
  352. The Rationality of Whig History and the Possibility of an Anti-Whig Approach
  353. The Revolutionary History of Media
  354. Travel Notes on the Lushan Conference
  355. What Is Wrong with “Eugenics” — A Review of Against Perfection
  356. A Natural History of Media—McLuhan’s Method
  357. Bitcoin: Musings on Mining and Altcoins
  358. Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma
  359. Bitcoin: The Age of Exploration
  360. The Economic History of Media—From Marx to Innis
  361. An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike
  362. Miscellaneous Musings on Gambling
  363. Post-80s: The First Generation of Young People in an Age of Twilight
  364. Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
  365. Bitcoin: An Endless Scam
  366. Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
  367. Human-Centricity or Humble Solipsism? — A Discussion of Whether Heidegger’s Philosophy Is a Philosophy of Subjectivity
  368. A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition
  369. Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes
  370. Photography and Science
  371. On Page Charges
  372. On Delayed Graduation and Looking for a Job
  373. On NetEase Mail, Cookies, and Privacy in the Internet Age
  374. A Civilizational History of Technology—Using Mumford as an Example
  375. The First Weibo Post That Got Blocked~
  376. Updated the Blog Email Address
  377. The Paradox of Fairness—On Halting Ticket-Grabber Plugins
  378. The History of Work
  379. Contempt and Locality
  380. The Two Falls of the Concept of “Nature” and Nature as “Anti-Normative” in Its Original Sense
  381. Equality or Freedom: On the Question of Attending School Outside One’s Hometown
  382. Blog hosting moved to Aliyun~
  383. Travel Notes from the Guangzhou Conference
  384. A Supplement to “Media History as Transcendental Philosophy”: The Relation Between Ontology and Epistemology; Nature Is Naturally the Boundary of Technology
  385. On the Discussion of Intentional History and Actual History
  386. On Elitism and Esoteric Truth
  387. Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance
  388. [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
  389. 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
  390. On the Diaoyu Islands
  391. Media and Morality
  392. Olympiad Math: The Side Road to the Gaokao
  393. The Shameful Greek Spirit
  394. The Whole-Nation System and the Pursuit of Excellence
  395. Solving Problems and Institutional Reform
  396. Disasters and Despotism
  397. Chopsticks and Internet Addiction
  398. My Book-Writing Plan
  399. Youth and Politics
  400. 20120628
  401. The 1000th Blog Post
  402. A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”
  403. Christian Creationism and the Rise of Modern Science
  404. Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”
  405. Joining the Party Burdened by Guilt
  406. Knowledge Is Connection
  407. Recommended Introductory Reading on Phenomenology: “Studies in Lived Experience”
  408. The Flush Toilet: City, Civilization, Modernity
  409. Nature as Raw Meat or Bacon
  410. Patriotism and Hatred of Enemies
  411. On Choosing an English Translation of “The Critique of Pure Reason”
  412. The Left and Right, Chinese Style
  413. Do the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment
  414. Brazenly Shameless
  415. Switched the server back to Beijing dual-line
  416. The Spring and Autumn Annals Style or Scientific Research? — Is the Mission of the Media to Seek Truth?
  417. The Philosopher’s Profession, or the Professional Philosopher?
  418. Satisfaction and Choice—Reading Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants
  419. Recommended Chinese-Language Bibliography on Environmental Philosophy
  420. The Distanting and Severing of “This”
  421. In Praise of “Rumors”
  422. The Multiple Layers of Technological Embodiment (embodiment, incarnation, manifestation)
  423. Why Place Ads
  424. Technical Intentionality and the Unconscious
  425. The Re-Creation of the World: How Modern Science Came Into Being
  426. On “Gongqingyuan”
  427. [Weibo] Earth Hour
  428. The title doesn’t show up on the blog homepage, but it still exists~
  429. Let’s test posting a Weibo directly on the blog~
  430. Western Learning as Substance, Chinese Learning as Application
  431. Night Reading Mencius: The Traitor Faction
  432. Democracy Against the People-as-the-Basis: A Debate on Weibo
  433. The Mediality of “Natural Seeing”
  434. A History of Technological Thought Between the Legs
  435. Where Is the Journal Conservative? — A Brief Note on Submitting a Manuscript
  436. The “Natural Selection” of Technology—A Critique of Levinson’s Theory of Media Evolution
  437. Notes on “Being and Time” II: “Being and Media”?
  438. Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules
  439. Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light
  440. Black Bear and Virtue Ethics
  441. The Strong Program of Media History
  442. Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
  443. Bottom-Up Reform
  444. A Second Discussion of Fang Yaohan: Wild Animals and Freedom of Speech
  445. About Fang Yaohan
  446. “The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good
  447. Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak
  448. Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist
  449. [Repost] Call for Papers for the 6th National Academic Conference on Phenomenology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  450. “Internet Addiction” Stems from a Craving for the “Real World”
  451. From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website
  452. “Intentional History” and the Aim of Historiography
  453. 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”
  454. Regarding the Third Assignment for Ke Tong: “On Bacon’s Science”
  455. Love of Wisdom and Patriotism
  456. Schneider, What’s the Matter with You? Or, on the Thickness of Media—An Interpretation of “The Phenomenology of Perception” 1.3.8
  457. Cookbooks and the History of Science and Technology
  458. A Portal for the History of Science and Philosophy? A Library? — On the Future Fate of keshizhe.net
  459. On Communicating with Extraterrestrial Civilizations—A Snarky Commentary on Jiang Xiaoyuan’s Report
  460. Second Commentary on the Science and Technology Assignment (On the Revolutionary and Conservative Aspects of the Copernican System)
  461. Exchange First, Scholarship Second—A Summary of the Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
  462. Introduction to the History, Philosophy, and Science Conference Handbook
  463. Politics Is Dispute—Starting from the Smoke-Free Campus
  464. Mathematics, Education, and Machines
  465. What Is an “Eduroam-Free Address”?
  466. Huaxia Mingwang’s hosting failure rate is too high…
  467. Ye Men Gathering — Archived Old Essays
  468. Some Replies on the General History of Science BBS in the First Half of the Semester
  469. Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science
  470. Notes on the keshizhe.net submission area (and adding a “replies visible only to the original poster” feature)
  471. Beijing Region Graduate Student Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science Continues to Solicit Submissions~~
  472. On the First Assignment for History of Science and Technology: Basic Features of Hellenistic Science Seen Through Ptolemaic Astronomy
  473. Is the University a Public Sphere? — Further Thoughts on Publicly Posting Grades and Publicly Critiquing Assignments
  474. Arendt Reading Notes
  475. My New Mobile Device: HTC Flyer
  476. Revisiting “Natural History” (Natural Science) as a Historiographical Program
  477. Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
  478. What Does the Red Cross Do? What Do Public Welfare Organizations Do?
  479. On “Knowledge Changes One’s Destiny”
  480. The Difference Between Pirates and Heroes?
  481. Access Statistics of the History of Science, Philosophy, and Technology BBS Since Its Launch..
  482. Is High Speed a Good Thing?
  483. Recommended Introductory Readings in Philosophy of Technology
  484. The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet
  485. Why Create Such a Forum?
  486. Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History of Science and Philosophy
  487. Call for Papers, Meeting Summary, and BBS Homepage for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
  488. Why Not Revive Confucianism?
  489. On Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
  490. Heidegger’s Thought on Technology
  491. [Announcement] Starting to Try Weibo
  492. Some Thoughts on the People’s Congress System
  493. A Little Commemoration of English Class
  494. Why Is the Three Gorges Dam Said to Be the Culprit Behind the Drought?
  495. I Don’t Object to the “Jeanswest Building”
  496. Utensils and Ritual Vessels
  497. On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology
  498. Added a Subscription Feature
  499. Switched EzEngage to connect with Weibo via WordPress
  500. The Distinctiveness of China’s Written Culture and Print Culture
  501. Three Meta-Disagreements with Analytic Philosophy
  502. Art, Media, and the Space of Meaning in the Interstices
  503. SCI and Academic Fairness
  504. A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”
  505. Why Do We Need Protein? — The Pursuit of Relative Truth
  506. What Is Democracy? Livelihood? Equality? Democracy Is Article 35 of the Constitution
  507. Media Realism—Scientific Realism from the Perspective of Media Ontology
  508. Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin
  509. [Draft] Several Issues in the Philosophy of Science from the Perspective of Media Ontology—Scientific Method, Causality, and Realism
  510. This Issue’s Music: “Baba Yetu”
  511. [Reprint] One Against a Hundred—Those Internet Companies with Few Employees and Many Users
  512. A Talk on “Copyright” in the Internet Age
  513. Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media
  514. Some Thoughts on the Elements of History of Science in the Primary School “Science” Curriculum
  515. Plugins Currently in Use on the Blog (Updated 11-11-20)
  516. Music for This Issue: TiawTang (Thailand’s Music in Civilization V)
  517. The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition
  518. Switching Blogs Again!
  519. A Chat Record on Determinism and Free Will
  520. The Blind Spots of Modern Medicine as Seen from “Double-Blind Experiments”
  521. Some Thoughts on the Future of Energy
  522. The Handy and the In-Hand
  523. What Can Chinese Tradition Bring to Modern Politics?
  524. A Paragon of the History of Scientific Thought — Dijksterhuis’s The Mechanization of the World Picture
  525. 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*)
  526. “Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism
  527. The Tower of Babel and the Accelerator — Reflections on Ma Boqiang’s Lecture
  528. Thought, History, Poetry — One of the Explanations of This Version of the Categorical Scheme
  529. Blogcn Really Does Have Log Review After All
  530. Initial Setup of the Suixuan Sub-Base Completed
  531. Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
  532. Blog Relocation Effective Today
  533. The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture
  534. The Capitalization of Technology — Reflections on Han Qide’s Lecture
  535. Hello, World!
  536. Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry in Biology—Thoughts on Chang Zengyi’s Lecture
  537. On Reform of the Gaokao Guaranteed Admission System and the Jiaozhou Road Fire
  538. Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing
  539. Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”
  540. The Blog’s Indenture
  541. Natural History as a Historiographical Program—Reflections on Liu Huajie’s Lecture
  542. Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
  543. “Natural History” Should Be Translated as “Natural History”
  544. Reexamining Medicine, Reexamining Human Nature—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
  545. “The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture
  546. Civilization History as History of Science—A Review of Sarton’s Ancient Science in the Golden Age of Greece
  547. Tradition as the Condition for Creation—Reflections on Dong Guangbi’s Lecture
  548. Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
  549. Space and Geometry—Questions for Reflection and Suggestions for Discussion from Teacher Wang’s Lecture
  550. The benevolent are invincible: some associations
  551. The Secrets of the Turing Machine
  552. A Few Words on “What Is Science” at the Start of the Course
  553. Has the Yiku server apparently moved to the United States? …
  554. A Travelogue of the Hailar Conference
  555. ZZ Power Station Quietly Begins Construction / Nujiang Again in Crisis (Southern Metropolis Daily, 2008-03-17)
  556. Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology
  557. Theses on Media Ontology
  558. “Proof” and the Mathematical Spirit
  559. Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy
  560. How Should We Understand Why “Proof” Is the Core Concept of the “Foundations of Mathematics”?
  561. Has Chaos Theory Overturned the Determinism of Classical Physics? (Philosophy of Physics Assignment)
  562. What the Wang Hui Affair Reveals About the Climate in Chinese Academia
  563. Why Post Grades?
  564. Postscript After Grading the 2010 General History of Science Exam
  565. Answers to the Essay Questions on the Final Exam for History of Science
  566. The Political Mission of College Students?
  567. On the New Three Kingdoms and Artworks in the Age of Mass Media
  568. [Archive] Waiku Blog News
  569. The Road of the Azure Sky
  570. A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Media Ontology
  571. Two earthquake orphans on stage? What are you thinking?!
  572. Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand
  573. Doctoral Research Plan (Media Phenomenology)
  574. On CCTV’s Blocking of English Abbreviations
  575. Phenomenology Notes 3
  576. Quantum Mechanics: Did It Introduce the Observer, or Send God Away?
  577. Phenomenology Notes 2
  578. Who Has “Politicized” Google?
  579. Phenomenology Notes 1
  580. Winter Break Essay V: Love, or the Search for Certainty
  581. Winter Vacation Essays, No. 4: Green Dam—The Taboo of Eating Beef or the Taboo of Eating Pork
  582. Third Winter Vacation Essay: Will and Responsibility
  583. Winter Break Essay No. 2: Relativism
  584. Winter Vacation Miscellany I: What Is Modernity?
  585. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]
  586. The Naturalization of Mathematics — A Wordplay on the Mechanization of the World Picture
  587. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-09 [Penultimate Issue?]
  588. Miscellaneous Notes from This Issue’s Xindao Salon 10-01-02
  589. The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai
  590. On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions
  591. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-12-26
  592. 09-12-24 Walking on the Ice of Weiming Lake
  593. Grades and Comments on the First Question of the Second Assignment in General History of Science
  594. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12-12
  595. Jottings from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12–5
  596. Miscellaneous Notes from the Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Conference I
  597. November 2009 Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Photo Album
  598. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-11-21 [The Next Session May Be Paused Once]
  599. Media · Sensation · Space-Time — A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology
  600. Grade Record for Question 3 of the First Assignment in General History of Science
  601. (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~
  602. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-10-24
  603. Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?
  604. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-10-10 [Part 1 of the Special Topic on “Science and the View of Life”]
  605. Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-10-03
  606. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-26
  607. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-09-19
  608. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-09-12
  609. Communication and Chess
  610. 09-09-11
  611. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-08-29
  612. Xindao Salon Will Experimentally Resume on August 29
  613. Miscellaneous Thoughts on Marching in Step
  614. [Archive] Einstein on Parades
  615. What Is Temperamental Compatibility and Scattered Association
  616. zz Ministry of Justice: Lawyers Handling Sensitive Cases Must Pay Heed to Politics and the Bigger Picture
  617. [Announcement] The Xindao Salon Will Continue to Be Suspended Tomorrow
  618. A Cultural History, Technological History, and Intellectual History of Bathing
  619. zz Sender: SMG Solar Eclipse Live Broadcast Shockingly Absurd Quotations (Repost)
  620. Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”
  621. [Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed
  622. Ji Xianlin: “Ji Xianlin on Translation”
  623. When the End Seeps into the Process, So That the Means Too Become Ends
  624. On “Benefiting Others by Serving Oneself”
  625. zzA once-in-a-century astronomical feast: July 22 · the Yangtze River total solar eclipse
  626. How to Reason with Emotion
  627. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-07-04
  628. Solar Eclipse and Ritual
  629. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-06-27
  630. The Problem of Degrees of Freedom in Love
  631. Langdon Winner: Do Artifacts Have Politics? — Translated by Gu Chi
  632. Recollecting “Political Astronomy”
  633. Random Thoughts on Abacus and Numbers
  634. [Reprint] “History of Science and Technology” Graduate Entrance Exam Questions (2009)
  635. Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-06-20
  636. Mirror and Glass: Tactility and Reality (Postscript to “Aristotle’s Tactile World”)
  637. 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.
  638. Aristotle’s Tactile World
  639. Reflections Inspired by Feeling
  640. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-06-13
  641. A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:
  642. This Issue’s Music: Jordi Savall: Celtic Double Bass: The Musical Priest / Scotch Mary [Traditional Irish]
  643. The God of Luck Appeared to Me~
  644. How wonderful it is to fly through the air and kiss the earth when it rains…
  645. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-06-06 [and Part Two of the Announcement for the Next Round of Salons]
  646. Notes from Today’s New Island Salon, 09-05-30 [and a Preview of the Next Round of Salons]
  647. Notes from the New Island Salon, 09-05-23
  648. The Responsibility of the Communicator
  649. Contracts and Spells in Love
  650. Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys
  651. Philosophy and Poetry
  652. Today’s Xindao Salon Jottings 09-05-16
  653. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-05-09
  654. Reading an Einstein Biography
  655. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 09-05-02
  656. Latour: Drawing Things Together Class Report
  657. Reading Notes on “Science in Action” (Prepared for the classroom report on Latour: Drawing Things Together)
  658. Miscellaneous Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-25
  659. Translating “natural history” as “natural history” is also not bad
  660. Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18
  661. Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon 09-04-11
  662. [A Quick Science Explainer][Repost] Allergic Rhinitis
  663. On the Original Content of My Philosophy
  664. Remembering Illness While Ill
  665. On How to Write a Book Report
  666. My philosophy lacks healing power
  667. Speaking of Childhood’s First Dream
  668. Several Scenes from Childhood Memory: Cats, Rain, Streets, Beads, and Chess
  669. (Expired) Unless something comes up, every Saturday I’ll be in the window-side corner of the non-smoking area at Xindao
  670. On “Fate”
  671. Relationism and the Philosophy of Communication
  672. [German] Josef Pieper: “Leisure: The Basis of Culture” — ★
  673. Philosophical Style and Attitudes Toward Love
  674. Chen Jiaying: The Influence of Translations of Western Thought on Contemporary Chinese Reasoning
  675. [Let This Stand as a Record] Beijing Temperatures Are Skyrocketing; Today’s High Could Reach 23°C
  676. About Rainwater, Let Me Say a Few Mystical Things Too; I Haven’t Forgotten That I Am Rain
  677. This Issue’s Music: Händel Harp Concerto, Op. 4 No. 6 – Allegro
  678. On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy
  679. The Moral Law Above My Head and the Starry Sky in My Heart
  680. Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao
  681. New Island Dialogues, Zero: Cafés and Scholarship
  682. On “吐嘈”
  683. Yu Zemin: “Seeing Europe in Cafés,” Shandong Pictorial Publishing House, 2007
  684. Bach’s Cantata No. 211, “Coffee”
  685. zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society
  686. What Is Questioning? — On the Search for Possibility, Again
  687. This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”
  688. [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)
  689. I Won’t Date in Cafés.
  690. On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)
  691. Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007
  692. A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks
  693. A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival
  694. This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.
  695. How Do I Read?
  696. Four Readings of “Scholarship”
  697. JOKER! — The Clown, the One Who Tells Jokes, the Wild Card, the Big Joker, the King.
  698. The Structure of a Pirate Ship
  699. What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?
  700. How Is Scientific Realism Possible?
  701. On My Research Plan for the Next Few Years—Coursework for Reading and Writing
  702. Philosophy and Nudity
  703. Why Do You Read or Not Read My Articles?
  704. Preliminary Completion of Keyword Addition Work
  705. This Episode’s Music: Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
  706. There Are No Experts in Philosophy
  707. Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
  708. From Fisherman to Pirate
  709. [New Pinned] Message Board
  710. Classroom Presentation Script on Realism and Anti-Realism
  711. [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables
  712. I Recently Started Writing a Log on the Campus Network
  713. At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation
  714. An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm
  715. This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)
  716. How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper
  717. The Mechanization of “Force”
  718. “The Philosophy of Online Games”
  719. The Labyrinth of Concepts
  720. A reclusive thinker, an otaku thirsty for knowledge (an image test)
  721. My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…
  722. A Set of Questions About Falling in Love
  723. This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)
  724. 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
  725. A Collection of Questions on the Mung Bean Distribution Problem and a Summary
  726. [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 60: “Collapse”…
  727. Supplementary Notes and Self-Introduction Following “Zheng mm”
  728. Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival
  729. [Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese
  730. This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain
  731. Why Do I Need Ethics? — An Unconventional Introductory Book on Ethics
  732. 【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】
  733. The Hard Drive Broke…
  734. Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)
  735. Marxist Human Studies / Text Excerpts from a Philosophy of Technology Class Presentation
  736. The Joy of “Dissatisfaction”
  737. The Philosopher’s “Manifest” and “Hidden”
  738. [Unpinned][Pinned 2] An Introduction to Gu Chi, Contact Information, and Comments and Questions
  739. The replacement of “freedom” by “equality” is the common root of the predicament of modern science and modern democracy
  740. An Essay on Freedom of Speech
  741. [US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)
  742. How I Came to Approach Philosophy of Science (A Whig History)
  743. About My Private Residence
  744. [Spanish] Fernando Savater: “The Invitation to Ethics” —★
  745. ———————————Draw a dividing line———————————
  746. This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement
  747. Violent Sanctions Are a Helpless Compensation for the Limits of Reason
  748. Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”
  749. What Is “Ideal”?
  750. Revisiting the Meaning of “Suixuan”
  751. A Fourth Talk on the Olympics—Assorted Remarks and Miscellaneous Commentary
  752. Re-reading “Big Questions—A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
  753. This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
  754. A Third Discussion of the Olympics: Gold Medals and Patriotism
  755. [Repost] Yali’s piece about Liu Xiang’s withdrawal from the race is quite interesting~
  756. A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games
  757. Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)
  758. A Few Words on “Olympic” — “Olympic Game”
  759. A “Systematic Study” Plan for Philosophy of Science
  760. What Is the Difference Between Philosophy and Natural History?
  761. Thinking of EVA
  762. Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying
  763. Following the Grain and Finding Order: “Li means to work jade.”
  764. Scattered Reflections on Love and Hate During My Retreat
  765. Writing Is a Kind of Outpouring
  766. Seven Subjects of Moral Education (How to Do Moral Education?)
  767. This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)
  768. [Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong
  769. “United in Hatred Against the Enemy” and “Hating Evil as Though It Were an Enemy”: I Can’t Do That.
  770. On BBS’s Suitability for Academic Exchange: Online Forums Should Replace Academic Conferences
  771. On the Fan Paopao Incident
  772. Reading and Freedom (I)
  773. This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”
  774. [U.S.] Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving——☆
  775. An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)
  776. [U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★
  777. Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom
  778. Kantian Ethics and “Anthropocentrism” (Draft)
  779. On the Olympics on the Blogs of Two Teacher Wus
  780. Some of the Text I Posted on KKBBS During My Seclusion
  781. Comeback Preview~
  782. Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism
  783. Things This Semester
  784. The Inertia of the Bystander
  785. “Love” as the Ultimate Meaning
  786. What Logic Do We Use in Everyday Discussion?
  787. Philosophy of Love: Introduction
  788. Text Is Principle
  789. This Episode’s Music: “The Song of Scientism” (Super Star)
  790. The Benefits of Mathematical and Logical Training for Studying Philosophy
  791. What Exactly Does Philosophy Study?
  792. [Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆
  793. What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?
  794. Wishing Everyone a Happy Spring Festival!
  795. On Feyerabend Quotations 5 (Philosophy, Science, and Language Games)
  796. Sense of Responsibility
  797. Nonsense about “Feeling”
  798. On “Feyerabend Quotations”
  799. Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism
  800. The Politics and Jurisprudence Behind the Philosophy of Science
  801. [Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”
  802. How to “Persuade” Extreme Irrationalists?
  803. [Repost] What Is Whig History? (“Whig History” and “Contemporary History,” Whig History of Mathematics and Whig History of Philosophy, and So On)
  804. Talking Again About Guo Degang
  805. Impressions and Notes on Heidegger and Schopenhauer
  806. A Tentative Discussion of Schopenhauer’s Spirit of Rationalism
  807. The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time
  808. This Issue’s Music: Elisha’s Smile — from Chuck Brown’s Deep Breath
  809. 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
  810. On “Tian Song: Why Does a Human Animal Drink the Milk of a Cow Animal?”
  811. This Episode’s Music: BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Rejoice in God)
  812. Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
  813. Words and Fragments, Episode 5
  814. On “Quantification”
  815. Reflections on Revisiting an Old Piece
  816. This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P
  817. In Praise of the Abacus?
  818. Whose Responsibility? — An Excerpt from a Case Study
  819. [Repost] Catholic and Orthodox Churches May Be Reunited; the Pope as “First Bishop”
  820. Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom
  821. [Repost] Teaching evaluation is irresistible / Tearing down Peking University’s Triangle Ground, the university says it is only dismantling an information board
  822. This Week’s Music: Harmonica Solo: The Dance Partner in My Dreams
  823. [U.S.] Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics
  824. On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”
  825. This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)
  826. [Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆
  827. This Episode’s Music: Azurite (Heroic Age ED)
  828. Restating Scientific Pluralism from a Classical Starting Point
  829. [Repost] Do We Need a Revival of Faith? (Xu Youyu)
  830. The “Exchange Meeting Between New and Old Students” Is Really Depressing
  831. On the Principle of Sufficient Reason
  832. Ideal
  833. [U.S.] Robert Fogelin: “Walking on the Tightrope of Reason”
  834. Three Years of Undergraduate Transcripts
  835. On Certain Matters
  836. On the Current Situation of Suixuan
  837. Platonic Love
  838. A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
  839. What Is the Olympics?
  840. This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope
  841. Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
  842. This Issue’s Music: БРАТЬЯ (Burāchiya) (Brothers) (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  843. [U.S.] Robert M. Pirsig: “The World of Fathers and Sons” (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) — ☆
  844. This Issue’s Music: Pachelbel, Canon
  845. [US] T. Dantzig: “Numbers: The Language of Science”
  846. “A Peking University Person”
  847. [U.S.] Margaret Visser: “All Depends on Dinner”
  848. Today’s Xindao Salon Notes, 09-07-11
  849. [Repost] Peking University’s Graduate Admissions Spark Controversy as More Than Half Are Recommended-Exemption Students
  850. Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős
  851. [U.S.] Thomas Nagel: “Your First Philosophy Book”
  852. Roger G. Newton: “What Is Scientific Truth—Is the Moon There When No One Looks?”
  853. On the South China Tiger Incident