Kant’s virtue theory

By focusing on human virtues rather than the general morality of rational beings, Kant’s virtue theory presents systematic arguments from the perspectives of reason and experiential emotion, norms and disposition, spirituality and humanity, etc., which is of great significance to an overall understanding of Kantian ethics, thus clarifying misunderstandings from the past decades.     

判断杠是断定力的符号吗?——借助胡塞尔的“信念变异”学说澄清弗雷格逻辑学中的一个问题

弗雷格认为,句子的断定力真正展现了逻辑学所关心的"真"。并且与语词"真"的冗余论一致,他认为日常语言中缺少与断定力相应的符号。然而,弗雷格却似乎在他所发明的概念文字中为断定力指派了一个特殊的符号:判断杠。本文试图论证,尽管弗雷格直至学术生涯的最后阶段仍然坚持将判断杠保留在其逻辑语言系统之中,但概念文字中的这一设计并不符合他关于逻辑与真之关系的模糊洞见。在论证的关键一步中,我们将借助于胡塞尔关于"信念变异"的学说来澄清"判断"与"断定"之间被弗雷格所忽视的区别。在此基础上,我们最后将简要地提示出对弗雷格关于逻辑与真之关系的模糊洞见进行解读的方向。     

Learning without consciously knowing: Evidence from event-related potentials in sequence learning

This paper investigated how implicit and explicit knowledge is reflected in event-related potentials (ERPs) in sequence learning. ERPs were recorded during a serial reaction time task. The results showed that there were greater RT benefits for standard compared with deviant stimuli later than early on, indicating sequence learning. After training, more standard triplets were generated under inclusion than exclusion tests and more standard triplets under exclusion than chance level, indicating that participants acquired both explicit and implicit knowledge. However, deviant targets elicited enhanced N2 and P3 components for targets with explicit knowledge but a larger N2 effect for targets with implicit knowledge, revealing that implicit knowledge expresses itself in relatively early components (N2) and explicit knowledge in additional P3 components. The results help resolve current debate about the neural substrates supporting implicit and explicit learning.     

Working memory capacity of biological movements predicts empathy traits

Working memory (WM) and empathy are core issues in cognitive and social science, respectively. However, no study so far has explored the relationship between these two constructs. Considering that empathy takes place based on the others’ observed experiences, which requires extracting the observed dynamic scene into WM and forming a coherent representation, we hypothesized that a sub-type of WM capacity, i.e., WM for biological movements (BM), should predict one’s empathy level. Therefore, WM capacity was measured for three distinct types of stimuli in a change detection task: BM of human beings (BM; Experiment 1), movements of rectangles (Experiment 2), and static colors (Experiment 3). The first two stimuli were dynamic and shared one WM buffer which differed from the WM buffer for colors; yet only the BM conveyed social information. We found that BM-WM capacity was positively correlated with both cognitive and emotional empathy, with no such correlations for WM capacity of movements of rectangles or of colors. Thus, the current study is the first to provide evidence linking a specific buffer of WM and empathy, and highlights the necessity for considering different WM capacities in future social and clinical research.     

工作嵌入概述

工作嵌入是个体和组织内外所有与工作相关的情境之间所形成关系网络的密切程度,它从非主观和工作之外的因素入手,为我们理解组织行为提供了一个全新的视角。本文就工作嵌入的内涵、结构、理论背景展开阐述,并在对以往研究进行总结的基础之上,对未来的研究做出了展望。     

Hemispheric processing of lexical information in Chinese character recognition and its relationship to reading performance

Hemispheric predominance has been well documented in the visual perception of alphabetic words. However, the hemispheric processing of lexical information in Chinese character recognition and its relationship to reading performance are far from clear. In the divided visual field paradigm, participants were required to judge the orthography, phonology, or semantics of Chinese characters, which were presented randomly in the left or right visual field. The results showed a right visual field/left hemispheric superiority in the phonological judgment task, but no hemispheric advantage in the orthographic or semantic task was found. In addition, reaction times in the right visual field for phonological and semantic tasks were significantly correlated with the reading test score. These results suggest that both hemispheres involved in the orthographic and semantic processing of Chinese characters, and that the left lateralized phonological processing is important for Chinese fluent reading.     

发展:从“硬道理”、“第一要务”到“科学发展”

改革开放的三十年所取得的成功的经验之一,就是找到一个适合中国国情的发展观,即从“发展是硬道理”到“发展是第一要务”从而确立了科学发展观。“发展是硬道理”向我们表明,在发展过程中,“软道理”要服从“硬道理”,无论在何种情况下,我们都是坚持马克思主义历史观,把经济发展看作是社会发展的基础,同时在经济发展中兼顾其他各个方面的发展。     

Personality profiles and the prediction of categorical personality disorders

Personality disorders (PDs) are usually construed as psychiatric categories characterized by a unique configuration of traits and behaviors. To generate clinical hypotheses from normal personality trait scores, profile agreement statistics can be calculated using a prototypical personality profile for each PD. Multimethod data from 1,909 psychiatric patients in the People's Republic of China were used to examine the accuracy of such hypotheses in the Interpretive Report of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Profile agreement indices from both self-reports and spouse ratings were significantly related to PD symptom scores derived from questionnaires and clinical interviews. However, accuracy of diagnostic classification was only modest to moderate, probably because PDs are not discrete categorical entities. Together with other literature, these data suggest that the current categorical system should be replaced by a more comprehensive system of personality traits and personality-related problems.     

一支突起的异军——再议宗教社会学及其在中国的进展

本文从宗教的社会性及其特性来强调宗教社会学是一门独立的社会科学,并再次论述了这门学科的研究方法。宗教社会学近两年来在中国的发展,可谓异军突起,本文从四个方面评述了这种异,并提出随着学科的发展,学科界线的走向问题。     

民间信仰:和谐社会的文化资本

和谐社会建设不仅是一项社会工程,也是一项文化工程。作为社会建设的基础工程,文化建设既要坚持中国先进文化的方向,又要弘扬民族优秀文化传统,充分开发与艺术利用本土文化库藏的和谐理念与和谐精神,为和谐社会建设提供文化资本支持。民间信仰是民族文化的重要组成部分,也是和谐社会建设重要的本土文化资本。(1)其以精神信仰的方式建构了平民百姓安身立命、顺道达和的和谐心理,从而为社会和谐创造了心理基础;(2)其所书写的忠孝节义、积德行善等道德故事,为民间社会整齐风俗提供了道德文本;(3)其全民性的"大乐与天地同和"的仪式庆典也成为民间社会文化整合的重要文化纽带;(4)其艺术语言的和谐风格滋养了民间社会的和谐性灵及日常生活;(5)其泛灵崇拜神化了天人关系,成为乡土社会人物和谐的生态哲学。