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Peddling the Philosophy of Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.09.18
Peddling the Philosophy of Science
I am scheming how to sell philosophy of technology to that junior female student. In previous years my sales tactic was just to lend them a few books and let them browse freely. I hoped that if they were interested in those books, they would borrow more books to read, or ask me about information on related books; the best possible outcome would be that they would come find me to discuss them. So far, though, the best case has been only that a junior said to me that that book was very interesting—nothing more. More often, after half a year or a year, they would come and say to…
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2007年9月18日
Peking University 2008 Admission of Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Students: Personal Statement

Life & Notes2007.09.14
Peking University 2008 Admission of Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Students: Personal Statement
最近事情太多，凡事都想速战速决。这个陈述急急写好马上就交了，现在看来语句有点不通，内容也似乎太随意了点。不过将就着吧。 Peking University 2008 Admissions for Recommended Exempt-Examination Graduate Study P e r s o n a l S t a t e m e n t Please use about 1,500 Chinese characters to introduce your academic background, the research work you have done in the field you are applying for, as well as your study and research plans during graduate school and your career goals after graduation, etc. The personal statement should be completed independently by the applicant; if it is found to have been completed with assistance from others, the applicant’s exemption qualification will be canceled. Please handwrite or print this page; the back may be used. Be…
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2007年9月14日
Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays

Site Matters2007.07.31
Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
Suixuan Two-Year Anniversary Selected Collection Gu Chu posted on 2007-07-31 10:34:36 Suixuan Two-Year Anniversary Selected Collection Science — Pursuit of Knowledge Constellations, Easter Island, and the Predicament of Science Popularization ★A Casual Talk on Science pp ☆Putting Chaos on Display with Excel! Trusting Science and Finding a Wife ☆Similarities and Differences Between Modern Science and Classical Greek Science Philosophy — Love of Wisdom Draft Text for the Philosophy Popularization Display Board ★Preserving Commonality While Seeking Differences — A Pluralist View of Dialogue A Supplement to “Preserving Commonality While Seeking Differences” A Brief Discussion of Philosophy Popularization (Final Published Version) ☆Negative Ontology — A Review of Kant’s Ontology Religion — Hope…
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2007年7月31日
[Eng] Brendan Wilson: “A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”

Philosophy & Thought2007.07.28
[Eng] Brendan Wilson: “A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
[English] Brendan Wilson: *A Brief Introduction to Philosophy*, translated by Weng Shaojun, Shanghai People's Publishing House, June 2007, 26 yuan Recently, a number of introductory books on philosophy and the history of philosophy have appeared on the market again. I have always been very interested in this kind of book. At the same time, perhaps I also hope to help later readers “verify” things a bit and improve my recommended reading list. Up to now, the introductory philosophy books I still place first are the three published by Guangxi Normal University Press—*The Tree of Philosophy*, *Big Questions*, and *An Introduction to Philosophy*—and this book has not surpassed those three. This…
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2007年7月28日
[U.S.] Robert M. Pirsig: “The World of Fathers and Sons” (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) — ☆

Culture & Public Commentary2007.07.23
[U.S.] Robert M. Pirsig: “The World of Fathers and Sons” (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) — ☆
[U.S.]Robert·M·Pirsig: “The World of Father and Son” (“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”), translated by Huang Xin, China Friendship Publishing Company, November 1998, 22.8 yuan——☆ I remember that there was a page in A History of Twentieth-Century Thought introducing this strange book. Because the introduction was so brief, apart from its strange title, I still hadn’t realized what was special about it. It was only after seeing Teacher Liu and Teacher Jiang recommend this The World of Father and Son that I learned this strange book had already been translated into Chinese! The translator was probably a literary translator and likely had little philosophical training; the translation problems are…
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2007年7月23日
[US] T. Dantzig: “Numbers: The Language of Science”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.07.18
[US] T. Dantzig: “Numbers: The Language of Science”
[美]T·Danzig: “Numbers: The Language of Science,” translated by Su Zhongxiang, Shanghai Education Press, December 2000, 17.1 yuan This book is a classic, though unfortunately it was written a little early (1938). Of course, read today it does not feel outdated; it’s just that in some places it seems to leave one wanting a bit more. Among the various popular mathematics books I have read in translation, this one is neither especially good nor especially bad—though it is also possible that, having already read so many related books, I’ve long since grown numb to much of the content… Page10, p12 Numerals are usually remarkably stable; even as everything else undergoes fundamental…
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2007年7月18日
On a Discussion on Teachers’ Blogs: the Criterion of Truth, Pluralism, and Other Matters

Philosophy & Thought2007.07.07
On a Discussion on Teachers’ Blogs: the Criterion of Truth, Pluralism, and Other Matters
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Truth Standards, Pluralism, and Others Gu Ya 发表于 2007-07-07 14:02:46 Preface 2007-06-08 16:59:55 Since I ultimately stopped responding, let me add this here: pluralism is related to the metaphor of dumplings and noodles. When I say that anti-scientism is not anti-science, I do not merely mean that I support some other kind of science; rather, I mean that even with the science that exists now, I do not oppose it. On the contrary, mathematization is not something loathsome: mathematics is very beautiful, marvelous, and a mathematical world is awe-inspiring as well. What we oppose is only the elevation of one particular worldview—no matter…
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2007年7月7日
In the discussion on the teachers’ blogs: On “the freedom to engage in pseudoscience”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.07
In the discussion on the teachers’ blogs: On “the freedom to engage in pseudoscience”
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/485ea8790100063v On “the freedom to do pseudoscience” 2006-12-07 07:42:42 Sima Nan said on TOM: “The real intention behind these people’s demand to delete those three characters from the Science Popularization Law is actually that they want to strive for the freedom to falsify things, the freedom to do pseudoscience.” (December 6, 2006, TOM Technology) Sima Nan’s wording is “the freedom to do pseudoscience”; we can change it a bit and make it “the freedom to do pseudoscience” for discussion, because we know that any freedom is also subject to constraints, and there is no freedom of freedom. What Sima Nan said touches on a very crucial question: do the masses…
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2007年4月7日
A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Science Communication from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Scientific Practice

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.23
A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Science Communication from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Scientific Practice
**Science Communication from the Perspective of Philosophy of Scientific Practice** 2007-03-16 11:38:45 http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48c5bb42010008zr#comment Science Communication from the Perspective of Philosophy of Scientific Practice Jiang Jinsong Institute for Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University 100084 Science Studies, 2007 (1), 9-13 *[Date received]: 2006-04-14, revised date: 2006-7-20 Funded by: National Social Science Fund project (05BZX029) [Author bio] Jiang Jinsong (1965–), male, PhD in philosophy, associate professor, research interests: philosophy of science and the relation between science and religion. Abstract: From the perspective of philosophy of scientific practice, science is local knowledge that originates in the laboratory. Scientific knowledge is, in the sense of Foucault, a power relation that shapes the scene. Science…
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2007年3月23日
On the Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Tsinghua University Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology Salon, Session 61

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.22
On the Discussions on the Teachers’ Blogs: Tsinghua University Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology Salon, Session 61
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48c5bb42010008s4 61st Session of the Tsinghua University Salon on Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology 2007-02-28 10:05:18 61st Session of the Tsinghua University Salon on Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology Topic: Beyond Technological Optimism and Technological Pessimism Speaker: Wu Guosheng (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University) Commentator: Gao Lianghua (Associate Professor, Institute for Science, Technology and Society Studies, Tsinghua University) Time: Saturday, March 10, 2007, 3:00–5:30 p.m. Address: Room 335, Xinzhai, Tsinghua University (north of the library) Contact number: 62794966 or 62798443 ext. 228, 62773013 Contacts: Chen Yijin, Shi Qixian STS Office Comments(14)┆Quote┆Read(108)┆Circle┆Print┆Rewarded reporting Article Comments The comments below represent only the views of the individual netizens…
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2007年3月22日