标签：Introduction to Phenomenology

Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance

History of Science & Scholarship2019.04.20
Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance
I had mentioned this in passing on Weibo before, and because it was rather short, I didn’t plan to put it on the blog. Yesterday, at the small reading group, this question came up again, and after thinking it over I decided to post it after all, since it is ultimately a question about the basic orientation of philosophy. Byzantines Should Regard Themselves as Romans As a student of Wu, my philosophical position is of course inclined toward continental phenomenology, but in fact I am not very willing to call myself a phenomenologist or a continental philosopher. It is much like how, after the division of the Eastern and Western…
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2019年4月20日
On the Backboard — A Phenomenology of Beat Saber

Phenomenology & Heidegger2018.09.28
On the Backboard — A Phenomenology of Beat Saber
Recently I’ve basically been grinding Beat Saber in VR, so I should count as having reached the expert level, right? Among the official songs, aside from standard mode where everything is A rank and Full Combo, I’ve recently started tackling no-arrow mode and one-handed mode, and in both modes I’ve also got 3 FC clears each~ Just the other day, in the introductory philosophy of technology class, we had just finished discussing Stiegler’s tertiary retention, and one of the links in that discussion was a phenomenological analysis of music. Applying that whole phenomenological analysis here is actually kind of interesting. When people first get into the game Beat Saber, many…
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2018年9月28日
On Phenomenology (I)

Phenomenology & Heidegger2016.12.24
On Phenomenology (I)
Recently I came across Master Xianglong’s article “What Is Phenomenology?”, and I thought it was terrific. This piece of his is especially suitable for readers who have some background knowledge of the history of Western philosophy but are unfamiliar with phenomenology. Teacher Zhang explains some basic concepts clearly, and between the lines he also conveys some of his own unique experience of phenomenology. It is truly a model of making the profound accessible. After reading Teacher Zhang’s article, I too could not help wanting to write about my own understanding of phenomenology. Of course, my article can hardly be compared with Teacher Zhang’s; my main purpose is to clarify my…
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2016年12月24日
The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?

AI & the Future of Technology2015.08.28
The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?
Recently I have been preparing an article on the historiographical program for a general history of technology to present at this year’s conference on phenomenology and the philosophy of technology. The article has been somewhat hard to bring to term; in fact, I am trying, through this project, to reconsider anew what the essence of “technology” actually is. Here I will first deviate from the paper’s theme and write down some of my recent thoughts. In Heidegger’s mode of approach, we always have to begin by finding an everyday definition, affirming its reasonableness, but questioning its thoroughness, and then, by following the thread, sorting out its more original meaning. Heidegger’s…
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2015年8月28日
Recommended Introductory Reading on Phenomenology: “Studies in Lived Experience”

Philosophy & Thought2012.05.27
Recommended Introductory Reading on Phenomenology: “Studies in Lived Experience”
[+] Max van Manen: “Lived Experience Research: Pedagogy in the Perspective of the Human Sciences,” trans. Song Guangwen et al., ed. Li Shuying, Educational Science Press, 2003 Lately I have been paying attention to the phenomenology of education, and I came across this book. But rather than a work on pedagogy, this book is really more like an introduction to (applied) phenomenology; the whole book is trying to describe a human-scientific mode of inquiry—phenomenology. The author, Van Manen, is a Canadian scholar and one of the founders of “phenomenological pedagogy.” He edits the journal *Phenomenology + Pedagogy*. But he is originally from the Netherlands, and his native language is Dutch;…
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2012年5月27日
The Distanting and Severing of “This”

Philosophy & Thought2012.04.19
The Distanting and Severing of “This”
Today in the discussion session, Ban Jingqi gave a presentation, and I could clearly feel that Jingqi was in high spirits—especially at the very end, when he hoisted up the blackboard to discuss Heidegger, he looked full of swagger and dash, seeming even more spirited than before he fell ill. Congratulations, congratulations~ After the classroom discussion, Jingqi also sent emails and posted on Weibo to continue the discussion, and I wrote a long response as well. Since he is also happy to publish it publicly, I might as well repost it on the blog too~ As for Jingqi’s original text, I have directly pasted his long Weibo post here (see…
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2012年4月19日
The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures

Philosophy & Thought2010.11.28
The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures
The first Beijing-area Graduate Student (Innovation) Forum in philosophy of science and technology was finally done and dusted. Although I didn’t really contribute much, I was nevertheless given the title of chair of the academic committee; before the event I was responsible for reviewing submissions, and during the conference I was in charge of chairing one session and taking part in the comments. What I had originally been assigned to comment on was suli’s paper, but suli seems to have suffered some kind of accident all of a sudden (bless him/her), and didn’t come today, so there was no chance to say anything. A bit of a pity. Based on…
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2010年11月28日
Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand

Philosophy & Thought2010.04.29
Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand
I’ve read quite a lot over the past two weeks, but because I’ve been bottling up a paper I haven’t managed to write notes in time. Still, I’ll jot down a few lines offhand, since this may also have something to do with the paper I’m about to write (about Heidegger’s ready-to-hand and guidance, and so on), so I won’t follow the order of the books. In other philosophy, especially early analytic philosophy, language is often analyzed as proposition, and what is called “truth” is also taken to be some kind of proposition or something that corresponds to a proposition. For example, Tarski said, “‘It is raining’ if and only…
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2010年4月29日
Phenomenology Notes 3

Philosophy & Thought2010.04.07
Phenomenology Notes 3
Today I only read two sections, about the distinction between what is called the natural attitude and the phenomenological attitude. Simply put, the natural attitude is the non-reflective attitude of everyday life, whereas the phenomenological attitude is the reflective philosophical attitude. To distinguish these two attitudes is not to set them against each other, as if one were the natural attitude of ordinary people and the other the phenomenological attitude of philosophers. In fact, the phenomenological attitude is a kind of transcending of the natural attitude, not a rebellion or a rupture. After all, the natural attitude is the basic condition of human life; reflection can only be discussed on…
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2010年4月7日
Phenomenology Notes 2

Philosophy & Thought2010.03.26
Phenomenology Notes 2
This time I’ll mainly talk about “presence and absence.” Presence corresponds to “fulfilling intention,” and absence corresponds to “empty intention.” What is meant by presence, or by fulfillment, is the situation in which a thing is vividly and concretely presented before you, directly pointed out by you. More precisely, though, presence is determined by absence: “When we apprehend the presence of something, we apprehend it precisely as not absent: if we are to become aware of what is present, then there must exist the horizon of its possible absence. Presence is given as the removal of a certain absence.” When can we say that a thing is present? It is…
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2010年3月26日