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Doing Philosophy Is Like Building a House

History of Science & Scholarship2007.09.11
Doing Philosophy Is Like Building a House
Different philosophers build different kinds of architecture—some are magnificent and luxurious, some solemn and quiet, some plain and simple; some can provide people with a place to settle down, while others are made for revelry; some are towering spires for people to gaze up at, some are labyrinths buried deep underground waiting to be explored, and some are merely foundations laid in the hope that later generations will carry the project forward,…… The architects of those new buildings, each with a style all its own, are the philosophers. But they either build upon the foundations laid by their predecessors, or else innovate by imitating and blending earlier thinkers; if one…
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2007年9月11日
About the Papers I Have Written

Life & Notes2007.07.10
About the Papers I Have Written
Before I went to Shanxi, I once ran into LY in a bookstore. He mentioned the problems with the papers I write: they involve too much, their contents are too mixed, the theme is not clear enough, the logic is not coherent enough, and the key issue is that they are not sufficiently “standard” — that is, I have not really mastered the conventions of the academic paper. He also said that my year-paper was almost rejected in the reviewers’ discussion, and only because LY spoke up for me did it end up receiving an excellent grade. In fact, I am aware of these problems myself. The general style of…
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2007年7月10日
What Is So Good About a Philosophy Department? — Written for Parents

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.22
What Is So Good About a Philosophy Department? — Written for Parents
Poor parents across the world all feel this way: if their children actually choose to study philosophy, it is rather like their children saying they want to join the underworld, or saying they want to marry an eighty-two-year-old man. How many parents would not be deeply worried by that? Such anxiety is only natural. A single casual choice can alter the whole second half of one’s life; how much more so matters as major as the college entrance examination and choosing a major? The child has not yet seen the world, so how could parents not keep a close eye on things? Indeed, many people are simply not suited to…
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2007年6月22日
Group research may be worth considering.

Life & Notes2007.06.15
Group research may be worth considering.
This time my academic-year paper was rated excellent. That was no surprise, really; after all, among ten people I ought to be able to squeeze in somehow. As expected, Teacher lsl places considerable emphasis on undergraduate research. What he said hit the nail on the head: if problems only surface when it comes to the graduation thesis, then the teachers really have no choice but to “swallow bitter huanglian and stay silent,” because in general no one has the heart to stop a student from graduating just because of the final paper. This is true not only of undergraduates, but of master’s students as well, just as Teacher Liu put…
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2007年6月15日
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007
http://edu.qq.com/a/20070330/000076.htm http://edu.qq.com/gaokao/ztq/slzl.shtml In the undergraduate major catalog, philosophy consists of only one disciplinary category, with 3 undergraduate majors. According to statistical data published by the State Council Academic Degrees Office, philosophy bachelor’s degrees granted by universities in our country account for 0.19% of the total number of bachelor’s degrees, philosophy master’s degrees account for 1.36% of the total number of master’s degrees, and philosophy doctorates account for 1.73% of the total number of doctorates. According to statistics on doctoral supervisors released by the Higher Education Students Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, among the 37,078 doctoral supervisors in universities nationwide, 539 are philosophy doctoral supervisors, accounting for 1.45% of…
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2007年6月3日
[Repost] What Do Philosophy Graduates Go On to Do?

Life & Notes2007.04.27
[Repost] What Do Philosophy Graduates Go On to Do?
古雴 I’m reposting some information here (slightly revised according to later additions) Sender: anthonyricky (迷花倚书不倚石), Philo section Subject: Re: Asking for advice on where philosophy graduates go Posted at Peking University Weiming BBS (Monday, April 16, 2007, 23:00:30), forwarded 2002 cohort, graduated in 2006, undergraduate students My own incomplete statistics 40 people in the class 9 sent on to graduate study within the department (direct PhD track), 3 recommended to graduate study at Peking University outside the department (two to the School of Marxism, one to the School of Government) Recommended to other universities: 1 to Renmin University, 1 to Nankai 3 to the United States, 1 to Canada,…
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2007年4月27日
Student salons are still worth doing

Life & Notes2007.04.17
Student salons are still worth doing
At today’s teaching discussion meeting, the matter of last year’s student salon came up by chance. It was held three times and then no more. As for why it was stopped, ZW seemed to have said something about the reasons; I wasn’t paying close attention. But after I got back, I kept thinking about it, and I always felt it was a pity that the student salon had been discontinued. From what Teacher Li said, the department still planned to provide support, which shows that the halt would not have been caused by obstacles from the department; the main issue was that the students no longer wanted to do it….
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2007年4月17日
The 400th blog post~

Site Matters2007.04.12
The 400th blog post~
From the 200th blog post to this 400th one (the counter on the right side of the page is malfunctioning; besides, I also counted a few private posts), it has been exactly one year. At that time the blog’s word count had already passed 500,000; now it probably ought to be breaking one million. But at present I can no longer export a backup file, and I wonder whether this is a common problem or simply because my blog has become too large. This year has been, quite precisely, the worst one in my life in spiritual terms, and I have been sinking deeper and deeper. Only recently…
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2007年4月12日
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.02
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
Yang Shoujian: Critique of Academic Corruption in China, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 1st edition, February 2001, 16 yuan The academic world is by no means an earthly paradise; rather, it is a truly filthy and sordid place, a gathering spot for swindlers, plagiarists, and robbers. I had in fact already been fairly clear-eyed about this, but when I read many of the cases, I was still shocked. Take, for example, Wang Tongyi’s so-called Language Encyclopedia, which has been praised as a collection of jokes and is enough to make one laugh out loud: (Wang Tongyi styled himself the “Dictionary King”; over 10 years he edited 25 dictionaries totaling 170 million…
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2007年4月2日
Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.27
Reposted from the Department Version: Should a World-Class University Prioritize Academic Research or Teaching?
… March 30 18:00—18:50 Pro: School of Mathematics and Statistics — To build a world-class university, academic research should come first Con: Philosophy — To build a world-class university, education and teaching should come first ______________________________________________________________________________ … … … Sender: EPR (Jingzhong), Group: Philo Title: Re: Schedule for the semifinals (please pin this) (reposted) Station: Peking University Weiming BBS (Tuesday, March 27, 2007 15:21:52), internal message Of course a university should prioritize education; the people in a university are called “professors” and “lecturers,” so if they neither teach nor lecture, what are they for? But then one doesn’t know what the administrators in a university are for; it seems as…
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2007年3月27日