Introduction: Some Remarks on History,Philosophy, and Education

Studies in Philosophy and Education -     

当代中国的法哲学研究

引　　言中国法哲学① 研究还存在着什么问题 ?这是当代中国法哲学界的许多学者都在认真思考的问题。探讨该问题的存在方式及其解决办法 ,是推进中国法哲学发展的一个重要途径。法哲学思考着政治、法律、社会根本制度的普遍性问题和社会生活中涉及人们切身利益的根本性问题 ,如     

Philosophy,Early Modern Intellectual History,and the History of Philosophy

Historians of philosophy are increasingly likely to emphasize the extent to which their work offers a pay‐off for philosophers of un‐historical or anti‐historical inclinations; but this defence is less familiar, and often seems less than self‐evident, to intellectual historians. This article examines this tendency, arguing that such arguments for the instrumental value of historical scholarship in philosophy are often more problematic than they at first appear. Using the relatively familiar case study of René Descartes' reading of his scholastic and Aristotelian contemporaries, the article attempts to problematize this notion of pay‐off from an historian's perspective.     

宪政经济学:一个应当科学对待的研究领域

对经济转轨的渐进改革和休克震荡途径之争已经深入到宪政经济学的层面,但是,无论是基本理论还是政策分析的应用,宪政经济学的领域中都存在一些重大的显示的和隐含的分歧。本文试图在理论和应用两个层面上梳理争论各方对若干重要概念的分歧之处,同时提出自己的粗浅理解,目的在于为进一步的深入系统研究廓清地基。     

Some Remarks on Dualization in Vector Optimization

In recent years there have been several reports on duality in vector optimization. However, there seems to be no unified approach to dualization. In a previous paper by the author a geometric consideration was given to duality in non-linear vector optimization. In this paper a relationship between duality, stability (normality) and condition of the alternative will be reported on the basis of some geometric consideration. In addition, Iserman's duality in linear cases will be derived from the stated geometric approach.     

Historicism and Critique in Herder's Another Philosophy of History: Some Hermeneutic Reflections

In Another Philosophy of History, J.G. Herder claims that his aim is not to compare and judge different cultures, but merely to describe and explain how each came into being and thus to adopt the standpoint of an impartial observer. I argue, however, that there is a tension between Herder's understanding of his own project—his stated doctrine of historicism and cultural relativism—and the way in which it is actually put into practice. That is, despite Herder's stated aims, he is nevertheless unable to avoid justifying premodern forms of life and making context‐transcending evaluative judgments in the process of trying to understand cultures on their own terms and holding them up as exemplars vis à vis the Enlightenment. This tension presents the challenge of accounting for it in the most charitable and illuminating way. I argue that this goal can be achieved by appealing to the resources of the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans‐Georg Gadamer, which enables us to disclose two enabling conditions for Herder's project of which he was not explicitly aware, viz., the internal connection between understanding and justification and the enabling character of prejudice as the condition for the possibility of understanding as such.     

Philosophy in America: Remarks on John McCumber's Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era

John McCumber is right to think that analytic philosophy has had a particularly central and dominating position in American philosophy, and that philosophy is less significant in American public life than in the public life of many European countries. I believe he is wrong to think that American philosophers have turned to analytical work in order to escape being politically relevant, and that he is wrong to suppose that prominent academic philosophy is something to wish for.     

Some Remarks on For-me-ness and Empathy

Abstract

My discussion of Self and Other takes issue with two distinct theses defended by Zahavi. The first concerns Zahavi's argument for the first-personal character of experience and its related thought experiment. My second remark is about Zahavi’s restriction of empathy to direct perception.