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Questioning the Heart, Not Calculating: A Dialogue on Moral Philosophy, the Self, and Publicness

Philosophy & Thought2026.07.23
Questioning the Heart, Not Calculating: A Dialogue on Moral Philosophy, the Self, and Publicness
Hu Yilin vs. ChatGPT5.6SolPro The previous conversation felt pretty good to me, so while I was still feeling enthusiastic I did another round. I’m still posting the whole conversation process here, and if you want the final article you can jump to the end. 1. Raising the Question: Motive, Result, and Moral Praise Hu Yilin: Let’s talk about another philosophical question, following the previous format. ChatGPT5.6SolPro： All right, following the previous format: I’ll first throw out a philosophical question and give two common everyday interpretations; you give your intuitive judgment in 1–2 sentences. Then I’ll raise a follow-up question from a less common angle, and please support or refute it….
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Jul 23, 2026
Question the Heart, Not Calculation: A Dialogue on Moral Philosophy, the Self, and Publicness

Philosophy & Thought2026.07.23
Question the Heart, Not Calculation: A Dialogue on Moral Philosophy, the Self, and Publicness
Hu Yilin vs. ChatGPT5.6SolPro The previous dialogue felt pretty good to me, so I seized the momentum and did another round; once again I’m just posting the full flow of the conversation. If you want the final article, you can jump to the end. 1. Framing the Question: Motive, Outcome, and Moral Praise Hu Yilin: Let’s talk about another philosophical question, following the same process as before. ChatGPT5.6SolPro： Okay, following the previous process: I’ll first pose a philosophical question and give two common, everyday ways of understanding it; you give your intuitive judgment in 1–2 sentences. Then I’ll raise a less common follow-up point for you to support or refute….
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Jul 23, 2026
Hindsight in the Face of Technology—A Review of The Dark Side of Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2020.07.09
Hindsight in the Face of Technology—A Review of The Dark Side of Technology
I owe quite a few book reviews; the books are all rather good, and I’ll be writing them out in succession in the near future. Of course, as long as a book is good overall, my reviews will still tend to praise it, while using the review as an occasion to talk about my own thoughts; in fact, that does not amount to a particularly strong recommendation of the book itself. This article was published in China Science Daily (July 9, 2020, page 7, Book Review) Everything has two sides, and even the best technology is a “double-edged sword”: it can strike down the enemy, but it can also wound…
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Jul 9, 2020
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage

History of Science & Scholarship2016.12.01
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
Introduction: From Philosophy of Technology to Philosophy of Garbage 1. The Historical Absence of a Philosophy of Garbage 2. How Is Garbage Possible? 3. Garbage Has Existed Since Ancient Times 4. The Modernity of Garbage I. The World of Ideas That Rejects Decay 1. The Age of the World Picture 2. The One-Sidedness of the World Picture 3. Plato’s World of Ideas 4. Aversion to Mortality II. Intellectual Purism That Rejects Ambiguity 1. Binary Opposition 2. Is and Ought 3. Identity and Garbage 4. Kant’s “Discarding Method” III. Foundationalism That Rejects Recycling 1. The Triple Synthesis 2. Memory and Its “Recycling” 3. Learning and Technology 4. The Cycle of History…
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Dec 1, 2016
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage

History of Science & Scholarship2016.12.01
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Garbage
Introduction: From Philosophy of Technology to Philosophy of Garbage 1. The Historical Absence of a Philosophy of Garbage 2. How Is Garbage Possible? 3. Garbage Has Existed Since Ancient Times 4. The Modernity of Garbage I. The World of Ideas That Rejects Decay 1. The Age of the World Picture 2. The One-Sidedness of the World Picture 3. Plato’s World of Ideas 4. Aversion to Mortality II. Intellectual Purism That Rejects Ambiguity 1. Binary Opposition 2. Is and Ought 3. Identity and Garbage 4. Kant’s “Discarding Method” III. Foundationalism That Rejects Recycling 1. The Triple Synthesis 2. Memory and Its “Recycling” 3. Learning and Technology 4. The Cycle of History…
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Dec 1, 2016
Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology

History of Science & Scholarship2014.09.25
Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology
This is the draft of the talk I’m preparing to give tomorrow at Tsinghua; by then I’ll basically plan to read straight from the script, of course after finishing I’ll probably also expand on certain parts extemporaneously depending on how things go… This talk aims to offer a brief and accessible overview of the basic claims of my dissertation. My dissertation involves many problems, and the relationships among its chapters are originally rather loose, so it is not very easy to distill. Here I can only focus on a few core concepts. Since I have avoided the most abstruse parts (ontology and transcendental philosophy) and the most concrete parts…
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Sep 25, 2014
Three Meta-Disagreements with Analytic Philosophy

Philosophy & Thought2011.05.13
Three Meta-Disagreements with Analytic Philosophy
Dialoguing with analytic philosophy is difficult, because what analytic philosophy does best is precise argument over fine details, and it is all too easy to get drawn into the minutiae of a specific problem. We can hold the opposite view from certain analytic philosophers, but by then we have often already walked into their trap. Just as there are surely all kinds of opposing views within analytic philosophy itself, endlessly debated with great fervor, they especially welcome opposing views; then you present your rigorous argument, accept refutation one point by one point, and still have to consider countless possible counterexamples not yet raised. In this way, once you have won…
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May 13, 2011