Author: 胡翌霖

Comments on the Introduction to Religious Studies Course

Life & Notes2007.01.20
Comments on the Introduction to Religious Studies Course
I had long wanted to write something to grumble about this course~~ But given that the religious studies introduction course gave me a score of 85.5, I felt satisfied, and so I had no intention of writing anything. But today, seeing the TA on the BBS soliciting “critical suggestions,” I was suddenly inspired, and so I wrote down the things I had originally meant to write…… First let me state clearly: I have great admiration for Professor Wu, and I have also gained a great deal from this course. The comments I want to make are not aimed at the quality of this course itself, but rather at what kind…
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2007年1月20日
“The Soul of Science,” “The Dragon-Slaying Saber of Calculus,” “The Stolen Harvest”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.20
“The Soul of Science,” “The Dragon-Slaying Saber of Calculus,” “The Stolen Harvest”
[U.S.] Lancy Peirce Charles Thurston: The Soul of Science—A 500-Year History of the Interaction between Science, Faith, and Philosophy, translated by Pan Bitao, Jiangxi People’s Publishing House, December 2006 The very first book in my reading plan was already disappointing—the theme of this book is undoubtedly one I care about deeply, yet the book itself is not outstanding at all (perhaps because I had expected too much). In terms of content, its account of Christianity’s role in promoting science may seem strange to the general public, but to me there was not much that was new. For the history of the interaction between science and religion, books such as Brooke’s…
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2007年1月20日
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto

Life & Notes2007.01.19
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto
Winter Break Reading Notes for 2007 Launch Manifesto I remember that in the middle of last winter break I suddenly threw myself into a spurt of effort, reading dozens of books straight through at an average pace of one book a day. Although none of them could be called especially specialized works, I did indeed feel I gained quite a lot; more importantly, I read with soaring morale and doubled confidence. But the good times did not last long. Not long afterward, for certain reasons, and then because of a whole string of external and internal problems, my morale plunged to rock bottom. It was truly a case of collapsing…
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2007年1月19日
The Lamb Stew Dwelling

Life & Notes2007.01.18
The Lamb Stew Dwelling
Mutton Soup Dwelling Xing Ding 发表于 2007-01-18 20:14:07 Mutton Soup Dwelling At last I’m connected to the internet; broadband in Beijing isn’t as good as Shanghai’s, and it’s so slow and yet so expensive…… But getting online means I’ve completed the entire grand relocation project! (Of course, the hauling of books is still under way……) I was bound to rent a place for a while sooner or later anyway, especially during that stretch between finishing my undergraduate degree and starting graduate school; my more than two thousand books had to have somewhere to go. And judging by my book-buying trend, the dorm’s capacity is about to be full to bursting,…
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2007年1月18日
Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.16
Is Non-Euclidean Geometry Favorable to Apriorism?
Non-Euclidean geometry is generally thought to be a “fatal blow” to Kantian transcendental theory. In an earlier article, I expressed doubt about this overly simplistic idea. But recently, as I happened to mull over the question again, an even bolder thought popped into my head — the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry is actually favorable to transcendental theory! It should be noted that Kant’s transcendental theory is neither empiricism nor rationalism. Kant is not saying that if one first finds a few axioms in human a priori intuition, then one can deduce the true state of the objective world. Kant is answering this question: since human experience of this world is…
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2007年1月16日
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.16
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
I’ve long wanted to write an essay introducing philosophy of science to the younger students, but each time I started it I gave up halfway through. I hope today I can stick with it and finish. I no longer expect to find fellow travelers in philosophy of science at the undergraduate level, but even for those classmates who do not choose philosophy of science as their direction, I still hope to reduce a few of the many misunderstandings that philosophy of science has suffered from a little bit (for the moment, let me take my own understanding as the correct one; of course, my understanding may also be a misunderstanding—make…
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2007年1月16日
Kuhn’s Historicism as a Rebuttal to Popper’s Philosophy of History

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.14
Kuhn’s Historicism as a Rebuttal to Popper’s Philosophy of History
Abstract: Based on the philosophy of science of “historicism,” represented by Kuhn, this article offers a critique of the scientific-philosophical foundations of Popper’s philosophy of history, and thereby of his anti-historicist philosophy of history. The author points out the close connection between Popper’s view of history and his view of science, and then, around the keywords “falsification,” “science,” “technology,” “wholeness,” “revolution,” and “history,” analyzes in turn the limitations and one-sidedness of Popper’s understanding of these concepts. Keywords: Popper historicism falsificationism Kuhn holism revolution Contents Introduction… 1 Falsification… 2 Science… 5 Technology… 7 Wholeness… 9 Revolution… 10 History… 13 Bibliography… 14 January 14, 2007, 2:30 a.m., at Yangroupaoju Introduction The title…
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2007年1月14日
How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.13
How Locke, Kant, and Dostoevsky respectively viewed the relationship between Christianity and modern society (draft)
Locke is a representative figure of empiricism and natural theology; empiricism and natural theology, together with Baconian science (that is, experimental science), make up the basic tendency of modern and contemporary thought—in precise terms, these three are simply three aspects, in philosophy, theology, and science respectively, of the same intellectual current. Reason and freedom are the key words in Locke’s view of religion, and of course they are also the main thread of modern and contemporary thought. Locke placed reason above revelation, holding that wherever reason can provide certain knowledge, faith should not interfere; if faith oversteps its bounds, fanaticism is inevitable. Only in those matters that reason cannot confirm…
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2007年1月13日
How Am I a Marxist?

Life & Notes2007.01.04
How Am I a Marxist?
I’ve recently been wanting to sort out this question again and make my position clear once more — I still call myself a Marxist, and that has never changed since I joined the Party. I have always idealized myself as a maverick, an unruly thinker; as long as I have not resigned from the Party, I will continue to insist on this. Expediency and status can never be reasons for me to remain inside the Party. The only reason I am a Party member is that I genuinely claim to be a Marxist. So, how am I a Marxist? Of course, one major reason is that I am a Party…
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2007年1月4日
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Can All Problems Brought by Science Be Solved by Science?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.03
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Can All Problems Brought by Science Be Solved by Science?
Reposting one article by Teacher Jiang Xiaoyuan: Can all the problems brought by science be solved by science? 2007-03-30 21:16:43 Can all the problems brought by science be solved by science? ——A discussion with Professor Wei Menghua Jiang Xiaoyuan http://www.sciencenet.cn/sbhtmlnews/200733001117574176097.html Science Times 2007-03-30, A4 Having read with respect Professor Wei Menghua’s article, “Science Has No Third Pole—A Discussion with Professor Liu Huajie,” published in the March 23 issue of Science Times · Weekend Review, as well as Professor Liu Huajie’s article, which was the object of discussion and had appeared earlier in Science Times, I have been deeply moved, and cannot resist offering a few modest views of my own….
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2007年1月3日