分类：History of Science & Scholarship

Negative Ontology

History of Science & Scholarship2007.06.15
Negative Ontology
Negative Ontology ——A Critical Appraisal of Kant’s Ontological Thought Abstract: This essay aims to interpret Kant’s ontological thought in Critique of Pure Reason and Introduction to a Future Metaphysics. Kant’s ontology differs radically from the tradition; it is what may be called a “negative ontology,” that is, an ontology whose aim is not to expand knowledge, but to set limits to it. The thing-in-itself is precisely Kant’s ontic ground; Kant emphasizes that the thing-in-itself is unknowable, yet must be thinkable and acknowledged. The positing of the thing-in-itself, on the one hand, restricts the arrogance of dogmatism; on the other hand, it also restrains the lawlessness of skeptics. In the realm…
philosophy Kant knowledge paper
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2007年6月15日
A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia

History of Science & Scholarship2007.06.08
A Brief Discussion of the Question of Euthanasia
One piece counts as two pieces… though that is not right, I really can’t make it in time… A Brief Talk on the Issue of Euthanasia The Basic Definition of Euthanasia Euthanasia refers to “the act or practice of, out of mercy, killing patients or injured persons who have no hope of recovery by a relatively painless method, or allowing them to die.”[①] The above is only a dictionary definition, and in academic discussion there are naturally many imprecisions in it. However, I do not intend to offer a new definition. In what follows, I will mainly discuss euthanasia in relation to issues of life and death. “Euthanasia can be…
philosophy freedom paper death
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2007年6月8日
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.31
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
The Third Path That Can Be Chosen—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology Introduction American philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg is a representative of contemporary Western Marxist philosophy of technology. His critical theory of technology seeks to open up a “third path” in philosophy of technology—Feenberg hopes to carve out a new route between the traditional optimism and pessimism about technology, inheriting the critique and reflection on modern technology found in the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, Ellul, and other pessimists, while also retaining something of the utopian ideal found in Marx and in theorists of technology as a tool. Feenberg believes that he will “preserve the strengths of both theories while…
technology freedom Heidegger paper
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2007年5月31日
[English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.27
[English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★
[English] Brian Ridley: *Is Science Magic?*, translated by Li Bin and Zhang Butian, Guangxi Normal University Press, May 2007, 1st edition, 1st printing, 1–7000 copies, 118,000 characters, 787×1092, 9.625 sheets, 25 yuan — ★ Guangxi Normal University Press is really getting cooler and cooler! I couldn’t resist buying this set yesterday when I saw it at WanSheng, even though today I saw that the Wild Grass Bookstore’s 25% discount copies had also arrived (by the way, Wild Grass has finally taken back and merged in the neighboring “Masterpiece Movement” that couldn’t stay in business, doubling its space). But when you see such a cool series, you really can’t not make…
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2007年5月27日
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.20
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
This book review assignment was due today, and the other book I had originally chosen still wasn’t finished reading; it seemed I wouldn’t have time, so I dug out this thinner book I had read before and wrote up a filler submission. If the TA is willing to wait a few more days, I might write another book review and hand that in instead…… G•E•R•Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle, translated by Sun Xiaochun, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2004 Ancient Greece is the source and beginning of science. There is no doubt that research on the history of science and technology in ancient Greece is of…
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2007年5月20日
Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.15
Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematics of Intuitionism
Late Wittgenstein and the Mathematical Philosophy of Intuitionism Abstract: This essay takes intuitionism as its guiding thread to explicate Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of mathematics, with the hope that it may contribute to a grasp of his late philosophy; on the other hand, it also cites Wittgenstein’s philosophical claims to provide support for intuitionism. Thus, this essay attempts both to sort out the mathematical philosophy of Wittgenstein’s later period and, at the same time, to offer a brief critical account of intuitionism. The author discusses separately the views of intuitionism and of late Wittgenstein on themes such as constructivism, empiricism, positivism, Platonism, logicism, formalism, conventionalism, the axiomatization movement, and the development…
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2007年5月15日
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Is Palmistry Materialism?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.16
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Is Palmistry Materialism?
It seems like a fallacy 1: Is palm reading materialism? 2007-04-08 10:37:38 http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48c5bb42010009el For many years now, there have been many muddled notions popular in China that need to be cleared up slowly. For example, many people regard reading palms to predict fate as idealism and criticize it. Whether predicting fate by palm reading is accurate and effective, I have not studied it, so I dare not offer a verdict. The information on the palm may be able to reflect fate; in theory that is not easy to accept and is hard to reconcile with modern science. But even if it is superstition, nonsense, and utter rubbish, does it therefore…
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2007年4月16日
In the discussion on the teachers’ blogs: On “the freedom to engage in pseudoscience”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.07
In the discussion on the teachers’ blogs: On “the freedom to engage in pseudoscience”
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/485ea8790100063v On “the freedom to do pseudoscience” 2006-12-07 07:42:42 Sima Nan said on TOM: “The real intention behind these people’s demand to delete those three characters from the Science Popularization Law is actually that they want to strive for the freedom to falsify things, the freedom to do pseudoscience.” (December 6, 2006, TOM Technology) Sima Nan’s wording is “the freedom to do pseudoscience”; we can change it a bit and make it “the freedom to do pseudoscience” for discussion, because we know that any freedom is also subject to constraints, and there is no freedom of freedom. What Sima Nan said touches on a very crucial question: do the masses…
science philosophy of science Liu Huajie law
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2007年4月7日
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.02
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
Yang Shoujian: Critique of Academic Corruption in China, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 1st edition, February 2001, 16 yuan The academic world is by no means an earthly paradise; rather, it is a truly filthy and sordid place, a gathering spot for swindlers, plagiarists, and robbers. I had in fact already been fairly clear-eyed about this, but when I read many of the cases, I was still shocked. Take, for example, Wang Tongyi’s so-called Language Encyclopedia, which has been praised as a collection of jokes and is enough to make one laugh out loud: (Wang Tongyi styled himself the “Dictionary King”; over 10 years he edited 25 dictionaries totaling 170 million…
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2007年4月2日
Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.27
Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?
… March 30 18:00—18:50 Pro: School of Mathematics and Statistics — To build a world-class university, academic research should come first Con: Philosophy — To build a world-class university, education and teaching should come first ______________________________________________________________________________ … … … Sender: EPR (Jingzhong), Group: Philo Title: Re: Schedule for the semifinals (please pin this) (reposted) Station: Peking University Weiming BBS (Tuesday, March 27, 2007 15:21:52), internal message Of course a university should prioritize education; the people in a university are called “professors” and “lecturers,” so if they neither teach nor lecture, what are they for? But then one doesn’t know what the administrators in a university are for; it seems as…
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2007年3月27日