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James L. Fosshage, A relational self psychological perspective     

邵康节的易学思想

本文以现代日本学者的眼光对邵雍的易学思想作了较为系统的论述。认为邵雍从宇宙观和世界观的理论基础上推演出他的历史观来 ,企图把宇宙世界的生成、万物的存在以及历史的变迁都还原为抽象的数 ,因而一方面难免陷入脱离事实、空洞推演的弊端 ,而在另方面又增加了重视义理以指导人事的内容。所以他的易学思想在古代术数与宋明理学之间 ,起了继往开来的重大作用     

论《伏羲六十四卦方图》与黄泛平原土壤剖面之契合

古易博大精深 ,今易功用深奥。对《伏羲六十四卦方图》用心领悟 ,“极深研几” ,偶与黄泛平原之壤平垂分布之象比拟 ,其相似程度令人嗟叹不已 :六十四卦二进制象数与土壤质地和层次排列关系完全相符 ,其易理幽然 ,其意义非凡。它对于现代西方土壤学研究的启迪作用显示着东方文化的无穷魅力     

遗传算法与易算算法

本文认为 ,《周易·系辞传》“天地之大德曰生” ;“生生之谓易”等以生命为本并强调生命演化的思想都与西方新兴起的遗传算法 (基因算法 )精神一致。文章在介绍了已故著名科学易学家潘雨廷先生对遗传密码的理解后 ,进而介绍了西方遗传算法的内容和结构 ,并把DNA本体看作计算硬件 ,把易数看作软件。最后比较了象数思维与遗传算法的思维 ,并提出了八卦空间     

王家台秦简“易占”与殷易《归藏》

从秦简“易占”与《周易》相应之卦存在的不同卦名来看 ,前者与卦之象义的关系简单直观 ,后者与卦之象义的关系则复杂抽象 ,故秦简“易占”之卦名当即先于《周易》之卦名而存在的殷易《归藏》之卦名。秦简“易占”之占辞中存有与殷易时代不合之数条 ,但其余占辞显然绝非后世所能编造 ,当即殷易《归藏》所收夏商旧有的占筮记录之辞。秦简“易占”虽非殷易《归藏》之原貌和全貌 ,但大体为殷易《归藏》之内容。     

教师领导行为与儿童同伴关系的研究

文章探讨了儿童知觉期望的教师领导行为与儿童同伴关系之间的关系.研究选取北京市某小学4、6年级学生作为被试,共180名(男100名,女80名).采用社会计量法测量儿童的同伴关系,教师领导行为问卷测量儿童知觉的和期望的教师领导行为.主要的结果如下:(1)知觉到放任型领导不利于儿童同伴关系的发展,而知觉到民主型与权威型领导对儿童的同伴关系影响不大;(2)知觉到权威型领导有利于形成一个有凝集力的班级团体,知觉到民主型领导行为有利于班级团体的调和.     

谈机体的非特异性功能损伤

为了探讨能够改变临床治疗过程中的过分强调疾病面轻视机体功能调节的现象,提出了非特异性功能损伤的概念。这一概念的普遍性存在于常见病、多发病中,其共性体现在以下兵脑为中心的神经内分泌免疫网络的功能中,它的个性可能正是中医药治疗疾病的客观依据之一。     

Functional role theories of representation and content explanation: with a case study from spatial cognition

The aim of this paper is to show that the widespread opinion, according to which functional role theories of representation fail to account for content explanations of human and animal behaviour, cannot be confirmed with respect to each type of functional role theory. Functional resemblance theories (as referred to by O’Brien and Opie in Representation in mind, Elsevier, 2004) allow for content explanations of successfully performed cognitive abilities as much as for explanations of systematic errors resulting from misrepresentation. How functional roles do their explanatory work in actual scientific research examples is shown by a detailed exploration of model assumptions about homing performances based on path integration mechanisms in humans and animals.

Equivalents for a Quasivariety to be Generated by a Single Structure

We present some equivalent conditions for a quasivariety of structures to be generated by a single structure. The first such condition, called the embedding property was found by A.I. Mal′tsev in [6]. It says that if are nontrivial, then there exists such that A and B are embeddable into C. One of our equivalent conditions states that the set of quasi-identities valid in is closed under a certain Gentzen type rule which is due to J. Łoś and R. Suszko [5]. Presented by Jacek Malinowski     

Underdetermination and Rational Choice of Theories

The underdetermination of theory by data argument (UD) is traditionally construed as an argument that tells us that we ought to favour an anti-realist position over a realist position. I argue that when UD is constructed as an argument saying that theory choice is to proceed between theories that are empirically equivalent and adequate to the phenomena up until now, the argument will not favour constructive empiricism over realism. A constructive empiricist cannot account for why scientists are reasonable in expecting one theory to be empirically adequate rather than another, given the criteria he suggests for theory choice.