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Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Conference (Shenyang Section)

History of Science & Scholarship2015.10.08
Travel Notes from the Shenyang–Benxi Conference (Shenyang Section)
The annual conference on phenomenology and philosophy of technology has once again come to a successful close. This year it was hosted by Northeastern University and held in Shenyang and Benxi from September 24 to 28. In my travel notes from the Lushan conference in 2013, I wrote: Since going to Nanning in 2009 to attend the Third Conference on Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology, I have now participated in five consecutive conferences. Apart from Nanning, where I only wrote a little “miscellaneous notes,” I wrote full-on conference takedowns for Hailar, Yangma Island, and Guangzhou. It has already become a case of riding a tiger and finding it hard to…
technology media phenomenology Scientific Revolution
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2015年10月8日
Toys, Mirrors, and Art (Reflections on a Seminar and a Preview)

AI & the Future of Technology2013.09.24
Toys, Mirrors, and Art (Reflections on a Seminar and a Preview)
Today’s seminar featured, in addition to the originally scheduled report by Zhe Ran, another report volunteered by Jing Qi, who commented on Wu Ningning’s “Hansen’s Mirror.” Since I had also, in my Lushan Conference Travelogue, offered some elaborations on Wu Ningning’s research, I brought my own elaborations into the seminar as well for discussion. Jing Qi’s presentations have been improving more and more. I used to criticize him all the time for using too much jargon, but that has gradually changed quite a bit. This time I criticized him for presenting “Hansen’s Mirror” in an overly mystical way; that was aimed at the specific point being made. Overall, as for…
technology phenomenology Introduction to Philosophy of Technology self
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2013年9月24日
The Handy and the In-Hand

Philosophy & Thought2010.12.23
The Handy and the In-Hand
Out of the blue, I found myself thinking about Heidegger’s two concepts: ready-to-hand and present-at-hand. The Chinese translations are hard to convey. “Shangshou” does a decent job of expressing the idea, but it seems to point more to the user’s state; when we say “shangshou zhuangtai” (“being in a ready-to-use state”), we are more inclined to think it refers to someone’s skillful state. We say that someone has gotten the hang of something, rather than saying that something is ready-to-hand for someone. Of course, a ready-to-hand state implies a coordinated state between human beings and things, or even, one might say, a state in which subject and object have…
philosophy Heidegger truth intentionality
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2010年12月23日
Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered

Life & Notes2007.09.05
Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered
Now, ordinarily I don’t go around meeting junior male and female students, but I heard that a direct junior female student of mine had arrived, and she was also a guaranteed-admission student from the science track at the Second Affiliated High School of Huazhong Normal University. However you look at it, I ought to go meet her. She really does make one feel that the younger generation is formidable; or rather, since she came out of our Second Affiliated High School, she’s just plain impressive… even scarier than last year’s junior student from Shanghai~~ Feeling emotional…… Actually, I’ve always wanted to say that science-track guaranteed-admission students with an interest in…
philosophy everyday life chess ready-to-hand
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2007年9月5日