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Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker, translated by Wang Delun, Chongqing Publishing House and Hainan Publishing House, May 2005

History of Science & Scholarship2006.06.21
Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker, translated by Wang Delun, Chongqing Publishing House and Hainan Publishing House, May 2005
Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker, translated by Wang Delun, Chongqing Publishing House, Hainan Publishing House, May 2005 Preface, p. 1 This book is founded on the belief that our own existence was once one of the most baffling mysteries. But now this mystery no longer exists, because Darwin and Wallace have solved it—though we still have to keep adding footnotes to their answer. The reason I wrote this book is that I am astonished that so many people seem not only unaware of the elegance and beauty of that answer; what is even harder for me to believe is that many people are not even aware that such a question…
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2006年6月21日
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Culture & Public Commentary2006.06.21
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
[U.S.] Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, translated by Guo Hui, Nanhai Publishing Company, April 2004 I first heard about this book in The Tree of Philosophy. In The Tree of Philosophy, it was not merely “mentioned” that seagull Jonathan existed; rather, nearly an entire class period was spent discussing it—as the introduction to the section on “philosophy of science.” The Tree of Philosophy provides countless excellent reference books as post-class reading, yet the only one assigned as a classroom task and directly discussed in class was this marvelous literary work. Freedom, pursuit, mind, wings, infinity… As for literary works, I am not very fond of writing analysis or criticism, nor…
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2006年6月21日
A Survey of the Books I Scored on Kongfuzi This Semester

Life & Notes2006.06.18
A Survey of the Books I Scored on Kongfuzi This Semester
The Adventures of Luzhinsi and Mifal Science and Religion (Barbour) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Carnap) The Worldview of Physicists (Newton Press; Heisenberg) Chaos Semantics and Philosophy Fractal Art A Multi-Purpose Chinese Character Encoding Dictionary The Idea of Time Oxford Selection — Reflections on Logic Oxford Selection — Introduction to the Philosophy of Science Oxford Selection — Since Structuralism Oxford Selection — The Rationalists Oxford Selection — Why We Culture Oxford Selection — Moral Philosophy Chinese Health and Intelligence-Building Qigong: A Volume of Advanced Techniques Nostradamus’s Great Prophecies — Unraveling the Mystery of Humanity’s Destruction in 1999 Dianetics: Self-Adjustment Techniques for the Mind Man Is the Spirit of…
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2006年6月18日
Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions

Philosophy & Thought2006.05.20
Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions
I hadn’t expected that the reading assignment I was given for the philosophy of logic course would be the only one for which I couldn’t find a Chinese translation…………not even an English electronic version was easy to find. At last I found the original PDF version, http://www.jstor.org/view/00294624/di982797/98p0002q/0 I ran it through Hanwang Text King OCR myself, and after some preliminary correction it is as follows. Turning it into an electronic text makes it a little easier to read with the help of Kingsoft PowerWord……but it is still awfully painful…… Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions Roderick M. Chisholm Noûs, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Mar., 1967), pp. 1-8. Stable…
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2006年5月20日
Expanded Bibliography on Science and Religion

History of Science & Scholarship2006.05.19
Expanded Bibliography on Science and Religion
[Austria] Leib, Zhang Heng, Science and Religion / Social Sciences Academic Press Cao Zengyou / Missionaries and Chinese Science / Religious Culture Press [UK] Richard Dawkins / The Blind Watchmaker / Chongqing Publishing House; Hainan Publishing House [UK] Mick Argyle / An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion / China Renmin University Press [US] Michael Peterson, [US] William Hasker, [US] Bruce Reichenbach, [US] David Basinger / Reason and Religious Belief — An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Third Edition) / China Renmin University Press [Germany] Hanbury Brown / The Wisdom of Science — Its Relations to Culture and Religion / Liaoning Education Press [UK] Alister E. McGrath /…
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2006年5月19日
The Reference Books Related to “Science and Religion” Currently on My Bookshelf

History of Science & Scholarship2006.05.01
The Reference Books Related to “Science and Religion” Currently on My Bookshelf
Author Title Translator Editor Publisher Publication date Price Series [UK]Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker Wang Delun Chongqing Publishing House, Hainan Publishing House May 2005 22 [US]Jonathan Wells Icons of Evolution — Science or Myth? Qian Kun, Tang Liming China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House April 2006 18 Frontier Popular Science Translation Series (Note: there seems to have been an unpublished comment by Teacher Jiang of Xinzhai, but it seems to have been lost.) Gu 2006-05-23 15:14:44 I’m ashamed, ashamed, ashamed… Buying books, piling up books, and reading books are my personal hobby, but I know full well that buying a lot of books, or even reading a…
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2006年5月1日
[Eng] Peter Singer: “Fermat’s Last Theorem—A Mystery That Puzzled the Wise of the World for 358 Years,” translated by Xue Mi, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, February 1998

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.09
[Eng] Peter Singer: “Fermat’s Last Theorem—A Mystery That Puzzled the Wise of the World for 358 Years,” translated by Xue Mi, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, February 1998
[English] Peter Singer: “Fermat’s Last Theorem—A Mystery That Puzzled the Wise of the World for 358 Years,” translated by Xue Mi, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, February 1998 I don’t really have much time to read light books, but just then I happened to be back in Shanghai and saw this book on the bookshelf. I picked it up for a quick look, and then I simply couldn’t put it down; I had to read it straight through in one go. It was absolutely wonderful. Although I had already learned something about the history surrounding Fermat’s Last Theorem through other reading, this book is a thematic treatment. It is very well…
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2006年4月9日
Constructing a DN Account of Leopold’s Essay (Thinking Like a Mountain);

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.06
Constructing a DN Account of Leopold’s Essay (Thinking Like a Mountain);
1. Constructing a DN explanation for Leopold’s article “Thinking Like a Mountain”; For the original text, see http://www.pep.com.cn/200406/ca429154.htm 1) Any animal’s survival requires enough food. —— universal law 2) Any animal can obtain food only within its own range of activity. —— universal law 3) If there is not enough food within its range of activity, then that animal cannot obtain enough food. —— corollary of 2 4) If there is not enough food source within its range of activity, then that animal cannot maintain survival. —— corollary of 1 and 3 5) If a group of animals remains stable in a certain place, then there must be a stable…
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2006年4月6日
The Religious Views of Great Scientists: Quotation Piling

Philosophy & Thought2006.03.28
The Religious Views of Great Scientists: Quotation Piling
The Big Scientists’ View of Religion: A Heap of Quotations Einstein: You will have a hard time finding among scientists of deep attainment anyone who does not have his own religious feeling. — “The Religious Spirit of Science,” in The Collected Works of Einstein, vol. 1, p. 67 A person inspired by religion has already, to the greatest possible extent, freed himself from the shackles of selfish desire, and is wholly devoted to thoughts, feelings, and aspirations that possess transpersonal value and which he holds fast to. What I consider important is the power of this content that transcends the individual, and the depth of the belief in its far-reaching…
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2006年3月28日
I read a crank-science paper… @_@

History of Science & Scholarship2006.03.03
I read a crank-science paper… @_@
Today I finally, astonishingly, read through an entire paper by a “popular-science crank”: http://hk.netsh.com/eden/bbs/6214/html/tree_7386694.html Alas, every paper by a popular-science crank is a classic. They have quite distinctive features: their first-order research is a mess, but their second-order research is actually quite meaningful. Since reading 《Four-Dimensional Mechanics》 back in high school, this is once again the chance encounter that has led me to a complete popular-science-crank article; revisiting it a bit is fine too, fortunately I still remember what a popular-science crank is all about…… First let me quote a few funny lines: This paper is the product of the author’s many years of thought, and has recently been thoroughly…
book reading notes Scientific Revolution Liu Huajie
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2006年3月3日