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Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture

Culture & Public Commentary2010.10.15
Know Yourself, and Do Nothing in Excess—Reflections on Wang Yifang’s Lecture
Scientific development is proceeding at high speed, and humanity is forging ahead rapidly on the road to knowledge—but does such development need a braking mechanism? Does science need to be “negatively thought”? This is the question Teacher Wang raised. Does science need ethical constraints? Beyond what is “correct,” is there also a standard of “justice”? When people discuss the ethical constraints or social responsibility of science, they are often referring to the personal conduct of scientists. Of course, scientists, as citizens and as members of society, are subject, like people in any other profession, to corresponding social and ethical constraints in their work and lives. Scientific ethics in this sense…
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2010年10月15日
Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology

AI & the Future of Technology2010.08.15
Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology
Phenomenology and philosophy of technology in Hailar are over. The trip was fairly pleasant, and I still have to write up the conference record, headache and all… Before reviewing the various papers and itineraries, let me first add a few notes to my own article. In the article, I originally used eyeglasses as an example to illustrate the reflective method of taking the medium as medium. When I reported it in Teacher Wu’s class, several people raised questions, so I added an example of a keyboard and a passage of explanation. The example I gave on the spot was the microphone at hand—when the microphone is put to use, it…
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2010年8月15日
Theses on Media Ontology

History of Science & Scholarship2010.08.09
Theses on Media Ontology
Abstract: As a philosophical program, media ontology points to a new philosophical line of thought whose origins lie in traditions associated with thinkers such as Heidegger and McLuhan. Media ontology develops its thinking around the everyday meaning of the concept of media, but it seeks to go beyond the everyday understanding of media as a neutral conduit for transmitting messages. Media, as the “extension of man,” also prompts us to rethink media as a way of understanding human nature. Media ontology implies an anthropology that transcends traditional dualism, and it is both a continuation and a surpassing of the Western classical philosophical tradition. Modern philosophy “discovered media,” but media ontology…
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2010年8月9日
On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions

History of Science & Scholarship2009.12.28
On the Intrinsic Reasons for the Integration of the Mathematical-Traditional and Experimental Traditions
Sender: EPR (Gu Bu | JOKER | Pingtian Dasheng | the homebody who wants to become the Pirate King), Board: KXTS标　 Subject: My own conjecture about the second essay question Posting site: Peking University Weiming BBS (2009-12-28 22:20:24, Monday), internal message This year’s short-answer questions were relatively easy. The first essay question was a homework problem from previous years, and the third homework question was fairly open-ended. Only the second question was especially difficult; I was completely stumped by it at first. Still, it is quite interesting. Although I didn’t set the question, I also want to try to guess at a possible line of thought. First, the question asks…
science philosophy of science Scientific Revolution knowledge
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2009年12月28日
Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18

Life & Notes2009.04.19
Notes from the Xindao Salon, 09-04-18
· Today’s salon had some newcomers dropping by, though the meaning of the café had not yet fully revealed itself to them. Welcome, friends, please keep spreading the word~ · The little ones were calling for Senior Brother Bu Tianshi, hmm~~ · In my view, a double major and a minor are not very meaningful. If you want to sit in on classes, it would be better to use the electives allotted by your own department to choose courses. But I won’t say too much about this either. · As for questions like course selection guidance, it is better to ask senior students than to ask your advisor~ · Science…
philosophy everyday life knowledge Plato
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2009年4月19日
Preliminary Completion of Keyword Addition Work

Site Matters2009.01.03
Preliminary Completion of Keyword Addition Work
I only added them roughly from memory, and the categorization is pretty chaotic as well (I’ve never been good at writing keywords), so this is about as far as I can go…… Some of the keyword arrangements may seem unreasonable, but there was a rationale behind them on my part; other keywords may also seem unreasonable, but in fact I simply typed them wrong myself…… It seems that, overall, they’re not of much use anyway…… In short…… readers, make of it what you will…… Anyway, there aren’t really any readers…… January 3, 2009 Latest Comments mist 2009-01-04 11:32:55 Anonymous 124.205.78.223 You said it。。。 anyway, there aren’t any readers。。。 Add this…
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2009年1月3日
Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”

Life & Notes2008.09.04
Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”
(This article is chaotic; not recommended reading.) We often see people who are so-called “idealists” — university students, for example — who, after they “step into society,” are struck by all the cruelty of “reality,” eventually give up their “ideals,” throw themselves into the embrace of “reality,” and become yet another “petty bourgeois.” We then say that an idealist has become realistic? But what does that mean? What exactly is idealism? And what is it that drives them to “become realistic”? The issue I mentioned last time in the 08 undergraduate freshmen group is precisely this. The previous article did not finish it, so let me start over. Speaking of…
philosophy autobiography knowledge pursuit
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2008年9月4日
What Is “Ideal”?

Life & Notes2008.08.31
What Is “Ideal”?
Today in the freshman group for the 2008 cohort, I mentioned this question (the 08 freshmen are really interesting): what is “ideal”? The concept of “ideal” is one I use fairly often, though I haven’t made many distinctions about it. In “Scattered Notes on Love and Hatred During the Period of Seclusion,” I brought up the connection between “idealism—subjective idealism—philosophy”; in an earlier article I probably mentioned it too (though I couldn’t find it); and more than two years ago, when I talked about “My Life Ideal,” I was using the word ideal entirely in everyday language; while two and a half years ago, in one of the articles that…
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2008年8月31日
Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)

Philosophy & Thought2008.08.09
Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)
Passive creation (mass communication) and active creation (scholarly invention). There are two active modes of creation: the natural-history style of “defining by pointing to the thing” and defining concepts through concepts. The latter is a way of abbreviating some meaning that was originally associated with a long string of concepts like A, B, C, D, E, F, or even with an allusion, or even with an entire philosophical system, into a convenient concept. Why create new concepts? Very simple: because the old concepts are not enough. If an intuition is so unfamiliar that people cannot naturally and smoothly place it in its proper position within the net of concepts, then…
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2008年8月9日
What Is the Difference Between Philosophy and Natural History?

Philosophy & Thought2008.08.03
What Is the Difference Between Philosophy and Natural History?
Today I was asked a question that, at first hearing, seemed baffling: “What is the difference between philosophy and natural history?” The questioner felt that philosophy deals with everything, and natural history also touches on everything, so the two seemed more or less the same… My answer was: philosophy is directed toward problems, whereas natural history faces things. Or, to put it another way, philosophy asks after the ultimate meaning of concepts—such as “What, ultimately, is science?” “What, ultimately, is essence?”—these are the ways philosophy poses its questions. A typical way natural history poses a question is: point at a tree and ask, “What is this?”—“A poplar.” That sort of…
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2008年8月3日