印度文化和数学里的递归

这篇文章处理了递归的模式在印度艺术（印度寺庙建筑与梵文诗律）与印度数学中的重要作用。同时对于莱布尼兹序列（Leibniz series）的玛达瓦（Mādhava）推导做一个具体的形式化的重构,并为大卫·芒福德（David Mumford）的发现提供了证据,即在印度数学中递归是一个重要的证明方法。     

Big History,Value, and the Art of Continued Existence

Philosophia - There has lately been substantial interest in scrutinizing our evaluative attitudes in light of our evolutionary history. However, these discussions have been hampered by an...     

费隐通容《五灯严统》的毁板与日本重刻

在明末清初禅宗史上,围绕费隐通容<五灯严统>而引发的诤讼是一个引人注目的事件.<严统>掀起的波澜已成历史陈迹;关于其功过得失,古人许多评论,足供来者吟味.本稿主要通过综合考察费隐通容与其法嗣隐元隆琦的相关事迹,阐述<严统>成书、毁板、日本重刻的具体细节,分析其流传过程,也揭示费隐与隐元之间的师徒情谊.     

20～21世纪之交的艺术史

在新世纪即将到来之际 ,欲完整透彻地说明 2 0世纪末期艺术史研究的状况似乎不太现实。我诚心向那些有意更进一步探究这个问题的朋友大力推荐多纳尔德·普莱茨奥斯最近所著的一本评论文选 ,它由牛津大学出版社出版 ,题为《艺术史的艺术》。这本书概览了自约翰·约阿希姆·温克尔曼开创了艺术史研究这一门专业以来 ,艺术史研究所沿循的主要方向 ,并且从18世纪中叶到 2 0世纪末期这一期间发表的文章中选出相应的代表性作品收入。在 2 0世纪 ,艺术史得到了迅猛发展。虽然我们的艺术史学科主要植根于 19世纪 ,但是随着大学里艺术史讲座的开展 ,…     

Succession and survival in psychotherapy organizations

Abstract: This paper examines the world of psychotherapy by applying a systemic and psychodynamic understanding of the family business as a way of understanding the dilemmas and challenges of leadership succession. Oedipal factors are explored as an important theme within the succession process. This exploration is set within the context of what function psychotherapy has performed in society over the last thirty years. The hypothesis is that the first generation of leaders aimed to provide containment for the individual citizen at a time of failed dependency in society. The suggestion is that this gave way to the primary task for the second generation, which has been to focus on the therapist in training. The challenge for the third generation is to develop a meaningful role for psychotherapy today and to ensure survival at a time when other shorter therapies such as CBT are gaining ascendancy over longer term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.     

African Art in Deep Time: De‐race‐ing Aesthetics and De‐racializing Visual Art

In two essays in the ART/Artifact (1988) exhibition catalog, white American museum curator Susan Vogel and white American philosopher Arthur Danto pronounce that Africans do not distinguish between art and nonart. Although seemingly objective empirical statements, their assertions about Africa and its art are racially based ruminations of a white supremacist worldview. I argue that in theorizing within the category of race they produced racialized aesthetics that commit the Eurocentric fallacy of upholding systemic racist objectives. I argue that (1) their assertions fail to be about African art, but about hegemony and power; (2) as the longest enduring artistic activity of humanity, African art is an important check to racialized aesthetics; (3) art is produced outside the category of race and from a critically conscious awareness of the world; and (4) art bespeaks creativity and presupposes the artistic and moral values of a culture in the manipulation and transformation of physical reality.     

Science and the Art of Healing: A Contribution to the History of Life Science

In conventional medicine, healing is effected mainly by treating the symptoms of the physical body disease, while in mind–body medicine the cure is performed by the mind itself (thoughts and emotions). In fact, the holographic mind theory claims that the mind could be either the healer or the slayer. Thus, this article is a contribution toward a more in-depth study of this theme of conventional medicine versus mind–body medicine, particularly to understand the gifts of quantum physics to life science and the art of healing, so that we might find an integrative medicine model (a holistic approach to health) that could explain some “incurable” diseases.     

Toward a Connectionist Model of Recursion in Human Linguistic Performance

Naturally occurring speech contains only a limited amount of complex recursive structure, and this is reflected in the empirically documented difficulties that people experience when processing such structures. We present a connectionist model of human performance in processing recursive language structures. The model is trained on simple artificial languages. We find that the qualitative performance profile of the model matches human behavior, both on the relative difficulty of center-embedding and cross-dependency, and between the processing of these complex recursive structures and right-branching recursive constructions. We analyze how these differences in performance are reflected in the internal representations of the model by performing discriminant analyses on these representations both before and after training. Furthermore, we show how a network trained to process recursive structures can also generate such structures in a probabilistic fashion. This work suggests a novel explanation of people's limited recursive performance, without assuming the existence of a mentally represented competence grammar allowing unbounded recursion.