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A Preliminary Analysis of the “Surprise Drill Paradox”

Philosophy & Thought2006.05.21
A Preliminary Analysis of the “Surprise Drill Paradox”
A Preliminary Analysis of the “Sudden Drill Paradox” Xingding posted on 2006-05-21 20:45:48 I don’t know whether there is any future in writing this line of thought out… In any case, this topic could either serve as an assignment for the summer course on “paradox studies,” or as the assignment for the current “philosophy of logic” course~ But to turn this piece of writing into a proper paper will still take some effort… A Preliminary Analysis of the “Sudden Drill Paradox,” (Continued) Xingding posted on 2006-05-25 17:24:18 But in any case, I still have not really dissolved this paradox. In fact, the extent to which I have analyzed it should…
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2006年5月21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 Spirit of Sport and Human Culture

Culture & Public Commentary2006.05.07
The Spirit of Sport and Human Culture
When I was little, I didn’t like sports. On the one hand, I was lazy and didn’t feel like moving; on the other, I thought sports were too “violent,” nowhere near as quiet and elegant as intellectual activities. As a child, I did like playing chess, but what I never really understood was—why does chess count as “sports” too? As I grew older, I gradually came to understand what sports and chess have in common, and I also came to feel more and more deeply the charm of sports. Sports are not merely “exercise,” and even less merely a kind of “violence.” They can stand alongside philosophy, science, religion, and…
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2006年5月7日
Not a Fool

History of Science & Scholarship2006.05.06
Not a Fool
“Not a Fool” — this is the four-character mantra for students of philosophy. Recite it often, when reading and when writing, and you will benefit endlessly! Philosophy is not truth and law; it is a longing for wisdom. Philosophers’ thoughts are all the more prone to error, and may even be more extreme than those of ordinary people. However, philosophers are not fools; even when they are “wrong,” they are often wrong in a “profound” way. When reading philosophers’ ideas, you must always keep in mind that they are by no means fools! And yet the “philosophy” we first encounter in middle school always seems to come with an attitude…
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2006年5月6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
The Expansion of “Matter”

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.27
The Expansion of “Matter”
Whether in everyday language or in philosophy and science, the concept of “matter” is so basic that people mention it frequently, yet rarely probe its precise referent. Like time, space, and other concepts that have become habitual, people have not always agreed on the idea of “matter” throughout history. Today, “matter” as a physics term is usually understood to mean: “anything that has mass and can be perceived and measured; all matter is made up of atoms, and atoms in turn are made up of elementary particles.”[①] In everyday language and philosophical discussion, “matter” is often opposed to “spirit” and “thought,” and is close to, or even used interchangeably with,…
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2006年4月27日
Ode to Wind and Sand

Life & Notes2006.04.22
Ode to Wind and Sand
Recently Beijing has been howling with wind, with yellow sand filling the sky; it really is not good weather. When I was little, I liked rainy days and sunny days, and did not like wind. I always felt that fierce winds made people irritable, while a light breeze made them feel airy and insubstantial. Wind seemed to be associated either with violence or with frivolity. But that is just like not liking to eat green vegetables and fish when one is a child: it is merely a matter of childhood. That day, when I got up early and saw dust and sand all over the ground, the words that surged…
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2006年4月22日
Modern Science and Religion (Research Plan)

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.16
Modern Science and Religion (Research Plan)
No matter what view one takes of the relation between science and religion, examining that relation is unquestionably an important topic in the history of science and in the study of religion. In today’s age of “big science,” and under the demand for dialogue between science and the humanities, discussing the relation between science and religion has a particularly special significance. It must be pointed out that the conflict and harmony between science and religion are not, first of all, something scholars have gone to great lengths to manufacture. Whether conflict or harmony, they are both real-world issues. Even as a purely objective inquiry, one cannot deny that there do…
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2006年4月16日
Philosophy Has Become “Technique”

Philosophy & Thought2006.04.11
Philosophy Has Become “Technique”
Seeing Bohm say that the word philosophy originally meant the love of wisdom, and that now it has become a kind of technique. I also think that our age is deteriorating into reducing everything to various technologies, stripping every thing of its meaning; I believe people have already fallen into technicism…… (The Ghost in the Atom, p. 118) I have long known that Bohm inclines toward postmodernist philosophy, but his words still make sense: do the analytic philosophy and logical positivism of the Anglo-American world not amount to turning philosophy into a “technique”? Although they still retain philosophy’s emphasis on “questioning,” the “pursuit” behind the questioning has been muted, especially…
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2006年4月11日