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The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time

History of Science & Scholarship2008.01.10
The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time
Please choose one of the following topics; of course, you may also write more than one essay, but there will be no extra credit~ 1. Discuss the relation between “authenticity” and inauthenticity in *Being and Time*. 2. Briefly explain the intellectual intention of *Being and Time*, and give your evaluation. (From the description of Dasein itself to the description of Being) 3. Choose your own topic. This is not recommended; unless it is especially well written, it is hard to get a high score. Requirements: 1. Stay close to the text; only with paraphrase can there be evaluation. 2. No fewer than 5,000 characters. The Road Toward “Authenticity” ——On the…
philosophy Heidegger pursuit paper
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2008年1月10日
On “Feyerabend Quotations 3 and 4” (Prescribing Remedies for the Age and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Etc.)

History of Science & Scholarship2008.01.05
On “Feyerabend Quotations 3 and 4” (Prescribing Remedies for the Age and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Etc.)
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=335 http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=336 XinZhaiLaoJiang Feyerabend Quotations 3 “I did not say that epistemology should become anarchist, or that philosophy of science should become anarchist. I said that these two disciplines should accept anarchism as a medicine. Epistemology is sick now and must be treated, and the medicine is anarchism. Medicine is not something people have to take all the time. People take medicine only during a certain period, and then stop.” Science in a Free Society: P139-140 [楼主] | Posted: 2008-01-24 01:01 GuChen This kind of “medicine” is too fierce and stimulating; it is not in keeping with the Chinese medicine way of nourishing life and regulating and supplementing the body~~…
philosophy science freedom politics
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2008年1月5日
Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.19
Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
**Lecture 46 of the KeKe Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning** **Lecture 46 of the Peking University Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology** **Time:** Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. **Venue:** Meeting Room, First Floor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University (Fourth Courtyard) **Speaker:** Professor Li Ruiquan (Director, Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan) **Topic:** The Ethical Distinction between Reproductive Copying and Therapeutic Copying Today’s lecture was quite interesting. I have read some books on bioethical topics like cloned humans before, and what Mr. Li introduced today was not unfamiliar to me. What was somewhat special…
science Confucianism life
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2007年12月19日
Lecture 45 of the Keke Forum: A Casual Discussion of Transnational Research in the History of Science (December 14)

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.14
Lecture 45 of the Keke Forum: A Casual Discussion of Transnational Research in the History of Science (December 14)
Peking University Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Lecture 45 Time: Friday, December 14, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Venue: Academic Lecture Hall, Ke-She Center, Chengze Garden Speaker: Wang Zuoyue, Associate Professor, Department of History, California Institute of Technology Topic: A Casual Discussion of Transnational Studies in the History of Science Professor Wang’s talk was excellent, but it was not able to turn into the “roundtable discussion” he had hoped for, because everyone knew too little about “transnational history of science”; today we were mainly listening to Professor Wang’s introduction. Remarkably, today’s forum did not even have a “commentator.” Only Professor Wu raised a question that was said…
science history of science history Peking University
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2007年12月14日
On “Quantification”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.11
On “Quantification”
What is “quantification”? This word is easy to understand, but it is not at all easy to explain just how the modern worldview has been “quantified.” “Quantification” was certainly not invented by modern science; “quality” and “quantity” are indispensable when human beings observe things, or one could say they are a priori—if we do not regard things in terms of qualitative or quantitative relations, then the world can only be a mass of chaos. Human beings always “partition” this world through quality and quantity, so that the world can be understood and described. Natural history, one might say, takes an approach that emphasizes partitioning by “quality.” At first, people may…
philosophy science history of science mathematics
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2007年12月11日
Tsinghua Philosophy of Science and Technology Salon: What Are Environmental Problems? (December 7)

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.07
Tsinghua Philosophy of Science and Technology Salon: What Are Environmental Problems? (December 7)
Tsinghua Philosophy of Technology Salon: What Is an Environmental Problem? (December 7) Seventieth Session of the Tsinghua University Salon on Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology Topic: What Is an Environmental Problem? Speaker: Professor Liu Chuang (Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, USA) Commentator: Dr. Jiang Jinsong (Associate Professor, Institute for Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University) Time: Friday, December 7, 2007, 3:00–5:30 p.m. Venue: Xinzhai 335, Tsinghua University There were many people at this salon this time, and the discussion was quite lively. Still, it always felt as though the discussion was extremely chaotic: everyone had his or her own train of thought, and when asking questions there…
science philosophy of science Industrial Revolution Jiang Jinsong
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2007年12月7日
In Praise of the Abacus?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.03
In Praise of the Abacus?
Among all the extracurricular skills I learned as a child, abacus counting was by far the most meaningful. The “mental abacus arithmetic” we learned was not just operating an abacus; through long-term training, it was a way of “placing the abacus in the mind” and then doing mental calculation with it. After about two years of training between first and third grade in primary school, three times a day—morning, noon, and evening—even if one did not quite reach the level of a few speed-calculation prodigies, one could at least manage, say, to hear several dozen three- or four-digit numbers in succession, compute their sum, and keep up as fast as…
culture science history of science history
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2007年12月3日
Lecture 44 of the Keke Forum: History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science (November 30)

History of Science & Scholarship2007.11.30
Lecture 44 of the Keke Forum: History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science (November 30)
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=183 Time: Friday, November 30, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Place: Academic Lecture Hall, Center for Science and Society, Chengze Garden Speaker: Liu Bing, Professor, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University Topic: The History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science Commentator: Su Xiangui Today we were fortunate enough to have Teacher Liu Bing grace us with his presence, and there were many listeners as well. Teacher Liu’s lecture was full of passion, and the discussion that followed was even livelier. Teacher Liu first laid some groundwork by talking about a few things that are common knowledge, and then focused mainly on Needham as an example while extending the discussion further. Teacher Liu…
science history of science pluralism Liu Huajie
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2007年11月30日
Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom

History of Science & Scholarship2007.11.16
Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom
The 43rd Lecture of the Peking University Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Time: Friday, November 16, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Venue: Academic Lecture Hall, Center for the Study of Society and Science, Chengzeyuan Speaker: Zhang Zengyi (Professor, School of Humanities, Beijing Institute of Technology) Topic: On the Trial of Intelligent Design Theory—The Question of Demarcating Science in the “Dover Case” Commentator: Ren Dingcheng Although it doesn’t seem to have sparked much heated discussion, today Teacher Zhang’s lecture was still splendid~ The original title had been “On the Trial of Intelligent Design Theory—The Question of Demarcating Science in the ‘Dover Case,’” but in the live presentation the…
science philosophy of science Peking University United States
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2007年11月16日
Reading as a Way of Thinking

History of Science & Scholarship2007.11.10
Reading as a Way of Thinking
This piece was prepared for another column in *Gongqingyuan*, and it can also be regarded as a continuation of the previous essay, “Me and Philosophy.” In “Me and Philosophy,” I wanted to say that I have chosen to live the life of a philosopher—that is, to confront those “big questions” with persistence rather than evade them or deceive myself. But how is such a life possible? At least for me, this way of life as I understand it does not mean brooding day after day in deep contemplation, standing in the posture of a “thinker,” pondering problems without a moment’s pause. If it were like that, it would be far…
philosophy scholarship Wittgenstein reading
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2007年11月10日