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  • Draft Text for a Philosophy Popularization Display Board

    Philosophy & Thought

    Draft Text for a Philosophy Popularization Display Board

    The images were too hard to match! I first rushed out a text draft: ten panels in all, each centered on a single “question.” Nearly five hundred Chinese characters, including three excerpts of philosophers’ own words. Doing academic work in Shanghai is really inconvenient. All my books are at school, and after several days of buying and borrowing books I didn’t gain much. With resources this scarce, this is about as far as I can get. Draft Text for Philosophy Popularization Display Panels Xingding published on 2006-08-29 03:52:57 1. What is philosophy? “What is philosophy?” This is precisely the most fascinating, and most bewildering, question in philosophy. Like philosophy’s many…

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  • Do Not Forget Popularization

    Life & Notes

    Do Not Forget Popularization

    Whether in philosophy or in science, “popularization” is needed—that is to say, the public outside the field needs to be brought to some degree of understanding in some way. Most people would agree with this; the question is only—who should popularize, to whom should it be popularized, in what way, how should the effects of popularization be defined, and so on. In modern times, learning has become increasingly specialized, increasingly profound, and thus increasingly distant from the grasp of ordinary people. In such circumstances, “popularization” instead appears ever more important. But the current state of popularization is worrying. Looking at science popularization: in fact, modern times can be said to…

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  • A Rambling Talk on Science pp

    History of Science & Scholarship

    A Rambling Talk on Science pp

    Preface The following lecture was written out completely before the actual talk. In the real presentation, because there was, first, no PPT to assist me and, second, my on-the-spot performance was not up to par, I ended up saying much less than I had intended, and did not do very well. Looking at this script should make up for some of that. 《Does God Play Dice》 can be read online at http://book.sina.com.cn/nzt/liangzishihua/. Let’s Begin Because I prepared too thoroughly—I had already written out the whole script—when speaking I might be a bit constrained, and since I can’t use PPT, I’ll have to keep glancing at the text, so please forgive…

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  • TV science education is a stronghold for spreading pseudoscience!

    Life & Notes

    TV science education is a stronghold for spreading pseudoscience!

    After patiently observing CCTV for a few days, I found that the science-and-education programs are indeed a breeding ground for pseudoscience! Easter Island stone statues, wild men, Atlantis, UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles… they’ve aired almost every one of those classic, famous pseudoscientific cases. 《Approaching Science》 is basically “Entering Pseudoscience”; “Exploration · Discovery” is 50% pseudoscience; “Mystery Tracking” is 100% pseudoscience—utterly irresponsible pure pseudoscience! Even the programs that are not openly promoting pseudoscience never show the slightest trace of, or even an implied, promotion of the scientific spirit; everything is spreading pseudoscience! The popularity of pseudoscience in modern society: the media must bear 90% of the responsibility! If you want…

    everyday lifescientific spiritpopularization
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