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Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship

AI & the Future of Technology2010.12.14
Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
WordPress-based blogs have countless advantages: backup functionality, easy maintenance, a wide range of mode choices, and abundant room for expansion. Apart from the legendary drawback that they seem to consume comparatively more server resources, they are really beyond criticism. For me, apart from the crucial ability to be backed up, WordPress also offers another crucial revolution compared with the Yaiku blog: namely, a revolution in the way categories are arranged. This revolution looks trivial at first glance: it is simply a shift from the original linear, segmented model to a many-to-many correspondence. In other words, on Yaiku, each post belongs to, and belongs only to, one folder, whereas under the…
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2010年12月14日
A Few Words on “What Is Science” at the Start of the Course

Life & Notes2010.09.20
A Few Words on “What Is Science” at the Start of the Course
“Science What Is” is a general elective offered this semester; you can find the course description on the Keke forum. In brief, this course is jointly chaired by Rao Yi from the School of Life Sciences and Teacher Wu, with a dozen eminent professors from various disciplines invited to give lectures, and then several teaching assistants organizing discussion sections. The lecture lineup for this course is formidable. Headlining the roster are Yang Zhenning and Yao Qizhi, the latter being a winner of the Turing Award (the Nobel Prize of information science), followed by a whole host of well-known professors from Peking University’s various departments. The pull of celebrity is indeed…
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2010年9月20日
Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy

History of Science & Scholarship2010.07.16
Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy
The Wang Hui plagiarism incident still has no conclusion, and the debate continues. Just now I saw a reposted article, also a rather typical pro-Wang piece, and it really does make some good points. Though it makes good points, it is actually a maneuver to shift the focus. In substance, it is still absurd and laughable. I’ll first quote the article’s first section (the boldface is mine): http://blog.renren.com/blog/7178/478029071 A Casual Talk on the Wang-Zhu Incident: It Concerns Academic Norms, and Even More, the History of Scholarship 2010-07-14 19:03:37 from: leo 1 The doctoral dissertation Wang Hui published in the late 1980s, Against Despair, has been branded by Wang Binbin with…
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2010年7月16日
What the Wang Hui Affair Reveals About the Climate in Chinese Academia

Culture & Public Commentary2010.06.23
What the Wang Hui Affair Reveals About the Climate in Chinese Academia
Seeing Southern Weekly once again publish Wang Binbin’s article criticizing Wang Hui, http://www.infzm.com/content/44402 This time, after reading Wang Hui’s most famous magnum opus from his mature period, *The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought*, they also found obvious plagiarism. The chapter identified as plagiarized was taken from Collingwood’s *The Idea of Nature*—a book we know best of all, and I happen to have a copy at hand, so I personally checked the comparison and confirmed that Wang Binbin was by no means slandering him; the plagiarism is indeed right there in black and white, glaringly obvious. Even if this is not malicious plagiarism in the sense of academic ethics, it is…
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2010年6月23日
Why Post Grades?

History of Science & Scholarship2010.06.22
Why Post Grades?
The course in the history of science has always posted the grades for homework and the final exam online. When I took it back then, I checked my grades on Professor Wu’s personal homepage, whereas now they are usually posted on the BBS. Every time grades are posted, there is inevitably some questioning: by making classmates’ information public like this, what about their privacy and so on? Here I might as well explain the reasons for doing it. First of all, the very notion of “privacy” is strange. Why are grades a student’s privacy? I have only heard that the exam scores of primary and secondary school students cannot be…
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2010年6月22日
The Political Mission of College Students?

Culture & Public Commentary2010.06.03
The Political Mission of College Students?
A few days ago I discussed this question with someone: is a college student’s mission to study diligently, or should one play some kind of political role? Of course, a university is not merely a vocational technical school; it is not meant to cultivate “talent” but to cultivate “persons,” and as a fully developed person, one naturally includes one’s social and political role as well as one’s historical mission. There is no question about that. However, when students bring up college students’ political role, what comes to mind are only all kinds of thunderous “student movements”; in other words, if one says that students should bear a political mission, it…
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2010年6月3日
November 2009 Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Photo Album

History of Science & Scholarship2009.12.01
November 2009 Nanning Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Photo Album
http://www.ycool.com/photo.php?uid=1062487&paid=1307001 Posting the link first; I’ll organize it later。。。
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2009年12月1日
Grade Record for Question 3 of the First Assignment in General History of Science

Teaching & Courses2009.10.28
Grade Record for Question 3 of the First Assignment in General History of Science
Sender: EPR (Gu Dā | JOKER | Pingtian Dasheng | The homebody who wants to become the Pirate King), Board: KXTS Title: The third assignment is basically finished~ posting the grade sheet 1.0 version~ Posted at: Peking University Weiming Station (Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 11:26:34), internal mail Except for the ones handed in to the teaching assistants for cross-grading, everything I had on hand is done. Each point item is scored from 0 to 5, then the weighted sums are added up and raised to the 0.67 power, then the baseline score of 70 is added… the result is guaranteed to average 84 points; except for a few provocateurs, basically…
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2009年10月28日
Communication and Chess

History of Science & Scholarship2009.09.12
Communication and Chess
At times, people put to me a question in different ways: in communication, how do I view or handle the status relation between the two sides of a dialogue? For instance, in speaking with teachers and elders, must one inevitably look up to them, or, correspondingly, when speaking with juniors, does one unconsciously have to look down from a position of superiority? This is especially so lately with some younger students who communicate with me: they cannot help but face such a contradiction. They expect some kind of equal dialogue and do not wish always to be in a weak position, yet to try to counter my own forcefulness in…
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2009年9月12日
How to Reason with Emotion

History of Science & Scholarship2009.07.07
How to Reason with Emotion
Feeling and reasoning seem to be two utterly opposed things; many people would think that a good argument ought not to be mixed too much with private feelings, and that the intrusion of subjective feeling will make a paper bad. Of course, broadly speaking, that is not wrong. Good papers at least seem cold; apart from the opening and the closing, they rarely contain any lyrical sentences. Still, leaving aside scientific and technical papers, as far as philosophy is concerned, I believe the best philosophical papers must be saturated with the author’s personal feelings. The key lies in how to infuse feeling, and absolutely not in how to drive feeling…
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2009年7月7日