标签：Zhang Junmai

Selected Commentary on the Anji Conference

AI & the Future of Technology2018.09.03
Selected Commentary on the Anji Conference
Done with travelogues The “Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Conference” has, in the blink of an eye, already reached its 12th session. This year it was hosted by Zhejiang University and held at Baicaoyuan in Anji. I skipped last year’s conference in Xi’an and didn’t submit a paper this year either, but I still came, took on two commentaries, and so at least made some kind of contribution. In previous years, I would usually publish a very “sharp-tongued” long review of each conference, criticizing everyone’s presentation one by one. This tradition probably began with the Hailar conference in 2010. In fact, my first review was written at Wu’s request. I…
technology phenomenology self AI
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2018年9月3日
An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike

Life & Notes2013.05.28
An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike
A few weeks ago I went to 706 Youth Space to give three public lectures. The course was originally planned to have five sessions, but I decided not to continue with the last two. Any students who participated and would like to continue the exchange are welcome to stay in touch with me through the blog, Weibo, email, and so on. As for the background and aftermath of starting the course and the strike, let me explain here. I had not previously known much about 706 Youth Space. I went to give the lectures because I received an invitation from Zhou Ruixuan. I checked the organization’s positioning online—spontaneous pursuit of…
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2013年5月28日
The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.12.10
The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture
Today Teacher Zhang Daqing talked about the modernization process of Chinese medicine; yesterday’s class on “What Is Science?” happened to also be taught by Teacher Zhang, on the transformation of medical paradigms past and present; and tonight’s discussion class was about the modernizing problem of Chinese medicine. Taken together, let me talk a bit about my thoughts. What Teacher Zhang referred to as the modernization process of Chinese medicine was not the modernization of Chinese medicine itself, but rather the process by which Western modern medicine was introduced. The concept of “modernizing Chinese medicine” is different from “Westernizing” or “scientizing” it. Modernization first of all means a kind of boundary-drawing:…
philosophy science modernity traditional Chinese medicine
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2010年12月10日
The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2009.12.30
The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai
【Abstract】To define the “Science-CXuan debate” in China’s modernization process as either a dispute between the ancient and the modern, or between East and West, misses the point. The Science-CXuan debate reflects a certain tension internal to the process of modernization itself. What the Xuanxue faction, represented by Zhang Junmai, was proposing was precisely the demand of modernization, or “enlightenment.” At the core of enlightenment lies the education of national character, the cultivation of a free will. What Zhang Junmai was concerned with was not whether science could explain a worldview, but how to cultivate and establish a new worldview. And the establishment of a new worldview, or a new culture,…
China education human nature paper
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2009年12月30日
[Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”

History of Science & Scholarship2008.01.21
[Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=316&fpage=1&toread=1 It is obvious that the discussion in this thread is mainly aimed at Teacher Tian (the Lean Knight). Schopenhauer’s swagger is long gone; what is being displayed now is basically my own swagger. Personally, I find this sort of dispute quite interesting. Although such arguments are hard to develop into something profound, they can still expose problems fairly well. Many of the ways I now phrase things first emerged in similar disputes—in the past on Teacher Liu’s and Teacher Jiang’s blogs, and now with BBS as an even better venue. I’ve been eagerly hoping that someone would come to my blog too and “provoke” me. How interesting that would…
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2008年1月21日
Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom

History of Science & Scholarship2007.11.16
Keke Forum Lecture 43: Demarcating Science in the Courtroom
The 43rd Lecture of the Peking University Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Time: Friday, November 16, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Venue: Academic Lecture Hall, Center for the Study of Society and Science, Chengzeyuan Speaker: Zhang Zengyi (Professor, School of Humanities, Beijing Institute of Technology) Topic: On the Trial of Intelligent Design Theory—The Question of Demarcating Science in the “Dover Case” Commentator: Ren Dingcheng Although it doesn’t seem to have sparked much heated discussion, today Teacher Zhang’s lecture was still splendid~ The original title had been “On the Trial of Intelligent Design Theory—The Question of Demarcating Science in the ‘Dover Case,’” but in the live presentation the…
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2007年11月16日
Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)
Like many people, my first encounter with Marxist philosophy was in the political theory textbook in high school. Of course, my impression at the time was not a good one. That kind of “Marxism” dismissed so-called idealist metaphysics and incomplete materialism and the like—every kind of non-Marxist philosophy—as worth nothing at all, and that was precisely what first made me suspicious: I imagined that those idealist philosophers could hardly all have been fools; as thinkers who had made it into history, they must, in any case, have been much smarter than I was, so why would they go to the trouble of producing theories that were worthless and collapsed at…
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2005年7月31日