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[U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★

Culture & Public Commentary2008.05.23
[U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★
[U.S.]Deborah Tannen: *You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation*, translated by Wu Xingyi, Nanfang Publishing House, 2008——★ During my period of seclusion, I didn’t read very many books, and I don’t want to go through them one by one. This one book, however, I am willing to spend some time excerpting, since it also has a direct bearing on what I am going to write next. Of course, this book is by no means the only one that talks about the differences between men and women. Before it, there had already been highly publicized books such as *Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus*, and books of…
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2008年5月23日
Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism

Culture & Public Commentary2008.01.22
Immortality from the Perspective of Historicism
Historicism holds that all standards of truth or morality are “historical,” that is, rooted in their own age and culture, and that there is no eternal truth standing outside history. But does historicism imply that people are fated never to “transcend” history? Not at all. We should note that “transcend” does not mean “detach oneself from.” Rather, it means unfolding new history on the premise of standing within history. I have already said before: “Only by relying on history can we possibly transcend history.” Put another way: only by possessing the past can we face the future. Those who have no “past” also have no “future.” The concept I want…
philosophy history pluralism immortality
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2008年1月22日
Relativism and Absolutism Are Birds of a Feather

Philosophy & Thought2008.01.07
Relativism and Absolutism Are Birds of a Feather
Some people fly the banners of relativism and postmodernism, claiming to oppose absolutism and universalism; in fact, they are unconsciously poisoned by absolutism, and at bottom they are nothing more than a further development of absolutism itself. Relativists will say one moment, “There is no absolute, universal, singular standard,” and then a moment later, either bluntly or obliquely, they say: “There is no standard”; one moment, “There is no interpretation beyond context,” and then a moment later, “interpretation is nothing but telling stories”; one moment, “Every argument has its limits,” and then a moment later they can, with righteous assurance and in complete ignorance of those limits, use their own…
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2008年1月7日
Lecture 44 of the Keke Forum: History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science (November 30)

History of Science & Scholarship2007.11.30
Lecture 44 of the Keke Forum: History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science (November 30)
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=183 Time: Friday, November 30, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Place: Academic Lecture Hall, Center for Science and Society, Chengze Garden Speaker: Liu Bing, Professor, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University Topic: The History of Science and the Multiculturalism of Science Commentator: Su Xiangui Today we were fortunate enough to have Teacher Liu Bing grace us with his presence, and there were many listeners as well. Teacher Liu’s lecture was full of passion, and the discussion that followed was even livelier. Teacher Liu first laid some groundwork by talking about a few things that are common knowledge, and then focused mainly on Needham as an example while extending the discussion further. Teacher Liu…
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2007年11月30日
Keke Forum Lecture 41: Two Kinds of Local Knowledge (November 2)

History of Science & Scholarship2007.11.03
Keke Forum Lecture 41: Two Kinds of Local Knowledge (November 2)
The task of activating KKBBS begins… Last week I tried testing the waters by posting a report, only to discover that there isn’t just a shortage of water there—it’s a complete desert! Where on earth am I supposed to begin………… Let’s be a little honest first and finish the basic task of reporting on each instance of the KeKe Forum~ But this post of mine doesn’t seem to be a news report; rather, it’s a discussion. I think news copy is pretty dull anyway, and besides, I’m not good at writing it. So I might as well keep hurling bricks and see whether I can stir up even a tiny…
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2007年11月3日
Restating Scientific Pluralism from a Classical Starting Point

Philosophy & Thought2007.09.29
Restating Scientific Pluralism from a Classical Starting Point
When I was being interviewed, Teacher Sun asked me how, after reading so much philosophy of science, I still hadn’t fixed a direction. I hemmed and hawed, dodged and bobbed, and in the end only said that I was interested in the whole field of meta-science, and that I would settle on a specific direction slowly. Was I really completely without a goal? No. Of the main direction I have in mind so far, or rather, of my academic ideal, of course I have one! I just didn’t dare say it during the interview. I only mentioned, “I’ve already made those grand claims in my personal statement,” and Wu-laoshi…
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2007年9月29日
The Rainbow Beside Me

Life & Notes2007.09.08
The Rainbow Beside Me
At noon today the sun was blazing overhead, and it was hot enough to be excruciating. I was riding my bike across campus. As I hurried along, I happened to see a couple by the roadside, embracing and looking at something. Following their gaze, I glanced over and saw that it was the automatic sprinkler in the landscaped area, spraying water. I had complained about this thing many times before; it was truly a waste of water resources. Besides, it was just sprinkling grass, not putting on a decorative fountain display—what was there to look at? Just as I was about to ride out of that stretch of road, I…
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2007年9月8日
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1
Thinking of things in passing from time to time, it seems not bad to jot down a few stray words and phrases. However, if I were to post every little paragraph as a separate entry, my blog would inevitably become cluttered and fragmentary, so I will wait until each collection of stray words has accumulated more than a thousand characters before posting it. Below is the first entry. l If one gives up Darwinism and believes that survival and reproduction are not necessarily the most important, or even the only important things. Then, for a nation or a culture, seeking to live and survive is certainly important, but by no…
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2007年8月29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
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.02
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
The paper I wrote on philosophy of technology before was too rushed—I only decided to switch from Heidegger to Feenberg at two in the morning on Tuesday, spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday reading, and didn’t finish the paper until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning… In fact, many places could still have been developed further. On the question of plural rationality, the example Feenberg gives is a very good one— In the paper I wrote: Here, Feenberg agrees with historicism and social constructivism in holding that not only the content of rational beliefs, but also the principles and forms of reason itself, are historical and culturally plural. In order to…
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2007年6月2日