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  • The Structure of a Pirate Ship

    Life & Notes

    The Structure of a Pirate Ship

    Noolat has a famous metaphor, roughly to the effect that science is like a ship sailing on the boundless sea: if something goes wrong, people can only repair it with whatever is on hand, or with things that can be salvaged from the sea. You might say it would be better to dismantle the ship and rebuild it from scratch, but the problem is that in this boundless sea the ship is our foothold; we can only keep sailing while repairing it. This metaphor is a good one; however, what those philosophers of science have not sufficiently noticed is that science is not an isolated, freely drifting thing in human…

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  • [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 60: “Collapse”…

    History of Science & Scholarship

    [Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 60: “Collapse”…

    Peking University Forum on History of Science and Philosophy of Science, Lecture 60 Time: Friday, November 21, 2008, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Place: Meeting Room, 1st Floor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University (Four Court) Speakers: Jiang Xiaoyuan (Professor, Department of History of Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Liu Bing (Professor, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University) Topic: After *Collapse*: Reflections on the Anxiety of Human Civilization http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=828&keyword= It’s been a long time since I last wrote a comment after a KeKe Forum lecture. Partly because I didn’t attend some of them, partly because I was lazy, partly because I felt there was nothing much to write, and on top of that the forum…

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  • Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree

    Life & Notes

    Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree

    Technology Name Era Prerequisite Technology Leads To Agriculture Ancient – Pottery Animal Husbandry Animal Husbandry Ancient Hunting Or Agriculture Writing Horseback Riding Archery Ancient Hunting – Bronze Working Ancient Mining Iron Working Metal Casting Fishing Ancient – Pottery Sailing Hunting Ancient – Archery Animal Husbandry Masonry Ancient Mining Or Mysticism Monotheism Architecture Meditation Ancient Mysticism Priesthood Philosophy Mining Ancient – Masonry Bronze Working Monotheism Ancient Masonry And Polytheism Monarchy Theology Mysticism Ancient – Meditation Polytheism Masonry Polytheism Ancient Mysticism Priesthood Monotheism Literature Pottery Ancient The Wheel And (Agriculture Or Fishing) Writing Metal Casting Priesthood Ancient Meditation Or Polytheism Monarchy Code of Laws Writing Sailing Ancient Fishing Calendar Compass The Wheel…

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  • This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”

    Life & Notes

    This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”

    Let’s have a little game for Children’s Day~ Although I already picked a track from Civilization for a previous music post, I’ll choose one again. I originally wanted to choose the theme song of the latest expansion, Beyond the Sword, but I couldn’t find a link online, so I had to dig out the famous “Papa Boar” song instead~ Civilization IV is already close to perfect; the Warlords expansion, while adding some bricks and mortar, doesn’t change all that much, but Beyond the Sword has added some genuinely new elements. As its name suggests, Beyond the Sword focuses on elements beyond warfare, though this has long been a tradition of…

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  • This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope

    Life & Notes

    This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope

    http://hyl510.googlepages.com/CivIIIAncEurope.mp3 I still haven’t played any games since the start of this summer vacation, and I’m really depressed…… The long-awaited Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Hammers of Fate still hasn’t appeared; Sword and Fairy 4, which I had preordered early on at Amazon.cn, has already been delivered to Beijing, but now I’m in Shanghai…… As for Civilization, I’ve been playing it far too much…… Today I discovered that GooglePage has been restored, and for the time being I couldn’t find a place to upload music. I noticed that there were already two background tracks from Civilization uploaded there, so I’m just casually posting one of them here. This piece…

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  • The Starry Sky Belongs to Children

    Life & Notes

    The Starry Sky Belongs to Children

    During the winter vacation, when I went to Nanbei Lake with my relatives (a dozen or so people), I casually mentioned whether you could see a few more stars here at Nanbei Lake than in Shanghai. At first, Mom, Dad, uncles, and aunts all seemed completely at sea, until I added that nowadays in Shanghai you can hardly see even a few stars at night; then the “adults” were all astonished— in their impression, the night sky still looked full of stars, so many that they were beyond counting. How could there be only the seven or eight stars you can count on your fingers left? That day happened to…

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  • “Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

    Philosophy & Thought

    “Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

    The paper I wrote on philosophy of technology before was too rushed—I only decided to switch from Heidegger to Feenberg at two in the morning on Tuesday, spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday reading, and didn’t finish the paper until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning… In fact, many places could still have been developed further. On the question of plural rationality, the example Feenberg gives is a very good one— In the paper I wrote: Here, Feenberg agrees with historicism and social constructivism in holding that not only the content of rational beliefs, but also the principles and forms of reason itself, are historical and culturally plural. In order to…

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  • If You Fall Behind, Do You Get Beaten?

    Culture & Public Commentary

    If You Fall Behind, Do You Get Beaten?

    “Backwardness” means getting beaten! Only when a country is strong can it avoid foreign aggression and truly achieve independence and autonomy……these are phrases we all know by heart. This principle inspires us to strive diligently and make China prosperous and strong, and of course that is a very good thing. But let us examine it carefully: is this principle really sound? In fact, the very first sentence of this article is problematic—saying that those who are “backward” get beaten, while those who are “strong” do not—I have paired “backwardness” with “strength,” and that pairing is misaligned! The concept opposite to “backward” should be “advanced,” and the concept opposite to “strong”…

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