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Basic Skills in Studying Philosophy: Avoid Reifying Abstract Entities, Resist the Universalization of Holism

History of Science & Scholarship2021.10.30
Basic Skills in Studying Philosophy: Avoid Reifying Abstract Entities, Resist the Universalization of Holism
Recently I have been supervising students’ thesis proposals, and I have had a lot of thoughts. In fact, I have always hoped that students would do history rather than philosophy, because then my supervision would be a bit easier. Doing history requires inspiration and thought, but more important is steady, painstaking labor: I give some broad conceptual inspiration and advice, and then the student just buries their head in the books. But if students want to do philosophy, then I get a headache, because philosophy is the easiest thing to fake and the hardest thing to fool. If you run into a teacher who is happy to look the other…
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2021年10月30日
Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis

History of Science & Scholarship2020.04.16
Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis
Published in Chinese Science Bulletin (2020-04-16, Book Review, p. 7). The title was mine, but now I’m tempted to change it again and call it: “Will Gaia Die?” The “Gaia hypothesis” was proposed by the British atmospheric scientist James Lovelock in the 1970s, and, together with the biologist Lynn Margulis, it exerted a huge influence both in science and in the environmental movement; it has remained a matter of controversy to this day. The inspiration for the Gaia hypothesis came from Lovelock’s participation in the 1965 Mars life-detection project. Lovelock held that the existence of life would be a planetary phenomenon: life would transform an entire planet’s environment, especially its…
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2020年4月16日
On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.10.20
On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”
Although Teacher Wu didn’t come, this time the Keke Forum had far more listeners than usual. Many familiar senior students also went, and the atmosphere of discussion was unprecedentedly lively (a group from Peking University bullying one person from Tsinghua), which really showed Peking University’s distinctive style~~ In real life I’m usually rather timid; with so many teachers and senior students raising such good questions, I simply didn’t ask anything, especially since the teachers and senior students had already brought up everything that should have been said. But online I can be a bit more unrestrained, and I can still offer a few thoughts. I’ve already posted my comments on…
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2007年10月20日
James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

History of Science & Scholarship2007.08.03
James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
[English] James Lovelock: _Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth_, translated by Xiao Xianjing and Fan Xiangdong, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, June 2007, 21 yuan Preface, page 1: The word “Gaia” comes from my friend and neighbor—the novelist William Golding. He believed that such an idea should be named after the earth goddess in ancient Greek mythology. Preface, pages 12–13: Ancient belief and modern knowledge fuse together in an awe-inspiring and exciting way. With this fusion, astronauts, with their own eyes, and we through television, witness Earth’s full splendor and charm as it appears against the backdrop of the blackness of space. Yet however intense this feeling may be,…
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2007年8月3日
On Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Zeller, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.22
On Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Zeller, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis
Zell, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis 2007-02-02 22:33:32 Zell, Lovelock, and the Gaia Hypothesis Liu Huajie Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis once enthused: “The Gaia hypothesis is a scientific view of life on Earth; it expresses a new biological worldview. In philosophical terms, this new worldview is closer to Aristotelian philosophy than to Platonic philosophy. This new idea is based on the facts of the Earth rather than on conceptual abstractions, though it certainly also contains some metaphysical implications. This new biological worldview (of which the Gaia hypothesis is the principal part) accepts the logic of life cycles and of engineering systems, while casting aside the Greek-Western tradition of ultimate…
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2007年3月22日
[U.S.] Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: “Tilted Truth—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.15
[U.S.] Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan: “Tilted Truth—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution”
[U.S.] Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan: *Tinkering Truths—On Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution*, translated by Li Jianhui et al., proofread by Su Xiangui, Jiangxi Education Press, October 1999 http://mqxx.mhedu.sh.cn/ebook/ZX/ZX/qxdzl/index.htm Chapter One: Sunday Visit to Oppenheimer P10~11 pp. 17~18 Karl, a little younger than I was, liked the feeling of magnifying his own importance. He grasped Copernicus’s lesson only superficially: Galileo’s views were accepted for logical reasons, not emotional ones. Although Ptolemaic thought had been obsolete for centuries, my ambitious astronomer acted as if the earth (especially Ravi) were the absolute center of the universe. His mother, endlessly circling around her son, would ask questions that were hard to answer: “Where did…
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2006年2月15日