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How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class

Teaching & Courses2017.08.30
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class
Getting upeatingusing the toilet, and then the next steps should be getting dressed, going downstairs, riding a bicycle, and so on. This time, since a reader requested it, I’ll first jump ahead to “going to class” and talk about that. Another key point is that I was not in good shape before this class, so “going to class” happened to be something I could talk about fairly casually without much preparation. This part is relatively rambling; it is only a record, and not recommended reading. Next time will be the last class, and I may jump back and talk about riding a bicycle, but it will mainly be free exchange….
history education course Aristotle
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2017年8月30日
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Using the Toilet

Teaching & Courses2017.08.25
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Using the Toilet
The summer course series has finally reached the halfway point. After talking about getting up and eating, I’ve now moved into a more vulgar domain: this time, defecation. 1. Cross-section The scene this time is something everyone knows all too well: going to the toilet. Why do people go to the toilet? — So-called “three urgent needs” of human beings; excretion can be said to be one of the most basic natural needs of humankind, so there’s no need to say much more. But just like the example of eating breakfast, the ways and concepts of going to the toilet are also historical. In addition, besides meeting basic needs, going…
culture technology history course
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2017年8月25日
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast

Teaching & Courses2017.08.16
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast
When I first talked about getting up, the second case would naturally be breakfast. 1. Cross-section: Breakfast The picture above was found in a casual search; it isn’t my own breakfast, but it looks fairly everyday, so let’s start from here. Why eat breakfast? — For nutrition? For health? What is breakfast? — Isn’t breakfast not a regular meal? What do you eat for breakfast? — Fried eggs, milk… 2. Technical conditions Many things make breakfast possible. First, what makes breakfast breakfast is a certain temporal rhythm: we eat breakfast before reading or going to work. Second, custom and nutrition science have made breakfast something regarded as necessary. Then there…
technology science history course
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2017年8月16日
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed

Teaching & Courses2017.08.10
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed
The previous post on the first week’s class only wrote half of it. In fact, the first half of that class was the introduction, and the second half discussed the first case study, so I’ll continue that here. As for the second week’s class, the original plan was for four classmates to speak for half a class each, and for me to speak for half a class; but the classmates’ sense of participation was too strong, and the time wasn’t strictly controlled either (since it was the first time, I deliberately didn’t try to force control), so the three classmates’ reports, together with discussion, took up a full two hours….
everyday life China technology history
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2017年8月10日
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: An Introduction

Teaching & Courses2017.08.02
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: An Introduction
Last Saturday in Room 706 I gave the first lecture in the course series How Technology Shapes Our Everyday Life. The first lecture consisted of two parts: first, an introduction to the overall philosophical framework; second, the first case study. In the future, each class is planned to include one more case study, while the first half of the class will be mainly presentations and discussion led by students. The introduction consists of two parts, “working out the problem” and “method.” First, I casually took apart each word in the course title and discussed it at some length, bringing in some views and styles from philosophy of technology; second, I…
philosophy everyday life technology course
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2017年8月2日
Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]

Teaching & Courses2017.07.28
Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]
Tsinghua University suddenly changed its policy again and took back the admission rights of all its tenure-track professors, so the recruitment notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve struggled my way to tenure and then talk about it…… The recruitment notice was published, and already several students have contacted me to express their intention to apply. Why not say exactly how many? Because I’m not entirely sure myself. Most students simply expressed their intention in a brief way, without further contact, and some are not from this year’s cohort. I have now successfully been added to Tsinghua’s admissions roster, and after the summer vacation, in September, I will be…
philosophy scholarship course admissions
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2017年7月28日
Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives

Teaching & Courses2017.07.05
Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives
Again invited by 706 Youth Space, I am preparing to open a course during the summer vacation, starting in late July, once a week, for about 5 to 6 classes. They are experimenting with the “project-based learning” format. I don’t know it in depth; broadly speaking, it is nothing more than a course form centered on students, guided by questions, and distinguished by interactive discussion. I am also willing to explore a livelier teaching format. Know Thyself The course I plan to teach falls within the fields of the history of science and philosophy of technology. On the one hand, this field is extremely profound; on the other hand, its…
philosophy everyday life technology history
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2017年7月5日
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]

Life & Notes2017.04.16
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
Tsinghua University has suddenly changed its policy again and taken back the admissions rights of all its tenure-track professors, so this admissions notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve clawed my way to tenure before talking about it…… Following my teacher Wu Guosheng, I was extraordinarily lucky to join Tsinghua University as a faculty member, and just last month I became an assistant professor in the School of Humanities. At present I am still affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. Once the Department of the History of Science, being set up by Teacher Wu, is officially established, I will also belong to the Department of the History of…
history of science scholarship philosophy of science course
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2017年4月16日
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]

Life & Notes2017.04.16
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
Tsinghua University has suddenly changed its policy again and taken back the admissions rights of all its tenure-track professors, so this admissions notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve clawed my way to tenure before talking about it…… Following my teacher Wu Guosheng, I was extraordinarily lucky to join Tsinghua University as a faculty member, and just last month I became an assistant professor in the School of Humanities. At present I am still affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. Once the Department of the History of Science, being set up by Teacher Wu, is officially established, I will also belong to the Department of the History of…
history of science scholarship philosophy of science course
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2017年4月16日
My Course Plan for the History of Science Department

Teaching & Courses2016.12.18
My Course Plan for the History of Science Department
Wu Laoshi’s grand plan for building the department is proceeding smoothly; the formal unveiling is probably not far off, and he has already begun to contemplate questions like course design for the next stage. I myself also have many ideas about teaching, and this is precisely why I hoped to take a university post rather than go to a research institute. I would be more than happy to teach undergraduate courses, especially at top universities like Peking University and Tsinghua, where the undergraduate student pool is the strongest. Undergraduates are more malleable and more open to new knowledge, and it is more rewarding to teach them. As for graduate students…
history of science philosophy of science course Wu Guosheng
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2016年12月18日