论中国梦视域下近代华侨华人爱国的精神动力

在鸦片战争中,西方资本-帝国主义用坚船利炮打败了闭关锁国的清政府。面对祖国惨遭西方列强的侵略、杀戮、掠夺,近代海外华侨华人与国内同胞一样,以坚强不屈、百折不挠的精神书写了抗争外国侵略的悲壮历史。孕育与激励海外华人爱国情怀的精神动力不仅有着深刻的时代背景,同时还根源于中华民族的历史文化。"振兴中华"是近代海外华人孜孜以求之的强国梦。鉴往知来,新时期重温华侨爱国精神对于当代大学生践行"中国梦"的时代使命和弘扬爱国主义主旋律有着重要意义。     

存在论视域中的艺术生产——兼论存在论对马克思艺术生产理论的补充与发展

存在论指出艺术生产是一个存在论上的事件,并不是一个主体的事件,存在论在艺术生产的本质、艺术生产的动力及艺术价值等方面,全面深化、补充和发展了马克思艺术生产理论。艺术生产的本质是存在显现的过程,艺术生产的动力来自于由混沌向已在变化的精神能量,而艺术价值的产生来自于这一精神能量所形成对存在背景的领悟。     

如何在大学历史教学中贯穿真善美教育

在当今的社会转型时期,整个社会需要重建道德价值和精神价值。因此,对大学生进行真善美的知识教育十分必要,而进行真善美综合知识教育,历史学是最适合的。在历史教学中对大学生进行＂真＂＂善＂＂美＂的知识教育,第一是利用历史学的科学功能对学生进行求真的教育,然后要利用历史学的教育功能和艺术功能对学生进行＂为善＂的教育和审美的教育,告诉他们以历史上的道德楷模和英雄人物为榜样,树立起美好的人生理想,培养好的道德操守,从而改变社会风气,重建民族精神风貌。     

精神文化消费与竞技运动互动联系之解读

精神价值是竞技运动的灵魂.本文从社会学角度解读了精神文化消费与竞技体育运动的互动联系,通过对其互动性的探讨,旨在为研究竞技体育提供新的视角.     

健身气功与“心性”之关系研究

从健身气功的历史渊源与"心性"的思想来源探究它们存在着难以割舍的关系,对健身气功这种善行的直觉修养、道德追求、养心寡欲、身心一体进行逻辑分析,认为它的本质是体现"道血气,以求长年、长心、长德.此为身也"的心性修养.     

Natural diversity: A neo-essentialist misconstrual of homeostatic property cluster theory in natural kind debates

In natural kind debates, Boyd's famous Homeostatic Property Cluster theory (HPC) is often misconstrued in two ways: Not only is it thought to make for a normative standard for natural kinds, but also to require the homeostatic mechanisms underlying nomological property clusters to be uniform. My argument for the illegitimacy of both overgeneralizations, both on systematic as well as exegetical grounds, is based on the misconstrued view's failure to account for functional kinds in science. I illustrate the combination of these two misconstruals with recent entries into the natural kind debate about emotions. Finally, I examine and reject Stich's “Kornblith-Devitt method” as a potential justification of these misconstruals.     

Inference to the hypothesis of extended cognition

This paper examines the justification for the hypothesis of extended cognition (HEC). HEC claims that human cognitive processes can, and often do, extend outside our head to include objects in the environment. HEC has been justified by inference to the best explanation (IBE). Both advocates and critics of HEC claim that we can infer the truth value of HEC based on whether HEC makes a positive or negative explanatory contribution to cognitive science. I argue that IBE cannot play this epistemic role. A serious rival to HEC exists with a differing truth value, and this invalidates IBEs for both the truth and the falsity of HEC. Explanatory value to cognitive science is not a guide to the truth value of HEC.     

The silence of the norms: The missing historiography of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

History has been disparaged since the late 19th century for not conforming to norms of scientific explanation. Nonetheless, as a matter of fact a work of history upends the regnant philosophical conception of science in the second part of the 20th century. Yet despite its impact, Kuhn’s Structure has failed to motivate philosophers to ponder why works of history should be capable of exerting rational influence on an understanding of philosophy of science. But all this constitutes a great irony and a mystery. The mystery consists of the persistence of a complete lack of interest in efforts to theorize historical explanation. Fundamental questions regarding why an historical account could have any rational influence remain not merely unanswered, but unasked. The irony arises from the fact that analytic philosophy of history went into an eclipse where it remains until this day just around the time that the influence of Kuhn’s great work began to make itself felt. This paper highlights puzzles long ignored regarding the challenges a work of history managed to pose to the epistemic authority of science, and what this might imply generally for the place of philosophy of history vis-à-vis the problems of philosophy.     

The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms

Many types of experiments have been recognized in the literature. One important type we discuss in this article is the orientation experiment. While orientation experiments are like other types of experiments in that they are tests for causal relevance, they also have other qualities. One important (but not the only) goal of these experiments is to offer a rough, qualitative characterization of the mechanism responsible for a capacity of interest, effectively constraining future research. This makes them particularly useful during the early stages of investigation, when an explanandum-phenomenon has just been identified and several (often competing) hypotheses as to the qualitative character of the mechanism responsible for it are proposed. We illustrate our claims, and explicate a number of additional aims that orientation experiments can sometimes serve, by considering three case studies from different era's, namely the discovery of the mechanisms responsible for i) the capacity of eels to produce numbing sensations (17th and 18th century), ii) puerperal fever in Semmelweis' Vienna Maternity Hospital (19th century), and iii) the capacity of pigeons to home (20th century).     

Prediction in context: On the comparative epistemic merit of predictive success

The considerations set out in the paper are intended to suggest that in practical contexts predictive power does not play the outstanding roles sometimes accredited to it in an epistemic framework. Rather, predictive power is part of a network of other merits and achievements. Predictive power needs to be judged differently according to the specific conditions that apply. First, predictions need to be part of an explanatory framework if they are supposed to guide actions reliably. Second, in scientific expertise, the demand for accurate predictions is replaced with the objective of specifying a robust corridor of estimates. Finally, it is highly uncertain to predict the success of research projects. The overall purpose of the paper is to enlarge the debate about predictions by addressing specifically the roles of predictions in application-oriented research.