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What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment

History of Science & Scholarship2018.05.29
What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
After this article was posted, the blog inexplicably crashed, and had to be restored several times… The course “A General History of Technology” is about to end. Next week I will write a brief summary; for now, let me talk about the homework issue. The assessment format for this course is rather innovative, consisting of 40% midterm assignments + 60% final exam. As for the midterm assignment, I do not want to see students plagiarizing, or cobbling together a lousy paper and handing it in, so I proposed a flexible either-or scheme: students who are interested in, or capable of, writing a paper may still write a short essay of…
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2018年5月29日
Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science

Teaching & Courses2017.09.19
Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
This week the new semester has officially begun, and today the course I am responsible for has also opened for business: “Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science.” This is one of the foundational professional courses offered to first-year master’s students and first-year doctoral students not trained in our department. This year there are altogether just 5 new students enrolled, with no students from other departments, and two auditors. Class time is every Tuesday afternoon starting at 1:30, and the class usually ends a little after 4 o’clock. The location is Room 204, Building 1 at Tsinghua University. Auditors are welcome. But because of the nature of this…
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2017年9月19日
Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science

Teaching & Courses2017.09.19
Course Syllabus: Selected Readings from Classic Works in Philosophy of Science
This week the new semester has officially begun, and today the course I am responsible for has also opened for business: “Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science.” This is one of the foundational professional courses offered to first-year master’s students and first-year doctoral students not trained in our department. This year there are altogether just 5 new students enrolled, with no students from other departments, and two auditors. Class time is every Tuesday afternoon starting at 1:30, and the class usually ends a little after 4 o’clock. The location is Room 204, Building 1 at Tsinghua University. Auditors are welcome. But because of the nature of this…
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2017年9月19日
Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]

Teaching & Courses2017.07.28
Supplementary Notes on PhD Admissions Requirements [No Longer Valid]
Tsinghua University suddenly changed its policy again and took back the admission rights of all its tenure-track professors, so the recruitment notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve struggled my way to tenure and then talk about it…… The recruitment notice was published, and already several students have contacted me to express their intention to apply. Why not say exactly how many? Because I’m not entirely sure myself. Most students simply expressed their intention in a brief way, without further contact, and some are not from this year’s cohort. I have now successfully been added to Tsinghua’s admissions roster, and after the summer vacation, in September, I will be…
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2017年7月28日
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]

Life & Notes2017.04.16
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
Tsinghua University has suddenly changed its policy again and taken back the admissions rights of all its tenure-track professors, so this admissions notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve clawed my way to tenure before talking about it…… Following my teacher Wu Guosheng, I was extraordinarily lucky to join Tsinghua University as a faculty member, and just last month I became an assistant professor in the School of Humanities. At present I am still affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. Once the Department of the History of Science, being set up by Teacher Wu, is officially established, I will also belong to the Department of the History of…
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2017年4月16日
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]

Life & Notes2017.04.16
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
Tsinghua University has suddenly changed its policy again and taken back the admissions rights of all its tenure-track professors, so this admissions notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve clawed my way to tenure before talking about it…… Following my teacher Wu Guosheng, I was extraordinarily lucky to join Tsinghua University as a faculty member, and just last month I became an assistant professor in the School of Humanities. At present I am still affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. Once the Department of the History of Science, being set up by Teacher Wu, is officially established, I will also belong to the Department of the History of…
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2017年4月16日
In Memory of Professor Ye Xiushan

Life & Notes2016.09.10
In Memory of Professor Ye Xiushan
叶秀山老师has passed away. On the occasion of Teachers’ Day, I am writing a few words in remembrance. Teacher Ye and I had two layers of relationship. First, he was Teacher Wu’s advisor—in other words, my academic grand-teacher. The other layer was that Teacher Ye was the teacher for my first philosophy course in college, namely Introduction to Philosophy. The relationship of seniority did not give me much direct feeling; the image of Teacher Ye in my memory was mainly formed in that Introduction to Philosophy class. When I heard the sad news, what kept flashing through my mind was the scene of him pinching an orchid-finger gesture while reading Da~sein….
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2016年9月10日
On Small-Class Teaching

Teaching & Courses2015.09.20
On Small-Class Teaching
I once supervised the small-group discussion section attached to the course “What Is Science?,” and at the time I also talked about related experiences and thoughts. But I did not say much. Recently, it seems that the Peking University Yuanpei Program hopes to promote small-group teaching across the board, and Teacher Wu hopes that I will once again systematically sort out my thoughts on the matter, so I am writing another piece here. Form By small-group teaching here I mainly mean the form of a small-group discussion class led by teaching assistants as an adjunct to large-class teaching. And unlike the “problem-solving sessions” attached to the usual foundational courses in…
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2015年9月20日
On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course

History of Science & Scholarship2015.07.11
On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course
This semester I offered two courses at BNU, one a university-wide elective, “A General History of Science,” and the other a 1-credit specialized course in the Department of Philosophy, “Introduction to Academic Research.” Both courses ended up with exactly 15 students enrolled. Why I offered the courses The reason I decided to offer these two courses was, first, on Professor Tian’s suggestion; in a sense, it was also to accumulate a bit of output for the future, whether for staying on at the university or finding a teaching position elsewhere, and in a sense it was also a kind of internship experience. In any case, I myself feel that these…
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2015年7月11日
Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science

History of Science & Technology2015.04.17
Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science
After finishing with the Arabs and China, let us return to the West and talk about medieval science. As for the Middle Ages, I was wondering whether I should spend two classes on them, because traditionally this period has been rather neglected; people probably know very little about it, yet in fact it is extremely important. To discuss why modern science did not arise in the Arab world or in China, on the one hand we have to talk about what was lacking in Arab and Chinese civilization, and on the other hand we must also make clear what medieval Europe actually had. In this lecture we will mainly talk…
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2015年4月17日