Verbal Disagreements and Philosophical Scepticism

Many philosophers have suggested that disagreement is good grounds for scepticism. One response says that disagreement-motivated scepticism can be mitigated to some extent by the thesis that philosophical disputes are often verbal, not genuine. I consider the implications of this anti-sceptical strategy, arguing that it trades one kind of scepticism for others. I conclude with suggestions for further investigation of the epistemic significance of the nature of philosophical disagreement.     

离散还是连续?——语义信息加工性质的实验研究

通过两个行为实验,采用句子核证作业,将SAD技术和普通反应时实验有机地结合起来,对语义信息加工的性质进行了详细的考察。实验一采用普通反应时实验,探讨了语义信息加工机制的性质,结果表明,在熟悉度、语义距离和快慢反应时之间存在复杂的交互作用,说明在语义信息加工中存在两种不同性质的加工机制,熟悉性是影响这两种不同性质加工机制的因素。实验二采用SAD技术,研究熟悉性对语义信息加工性质的影响。结果表明,在高熟悉句中的部分信息积累具有离散的趋势;而低熟悉句中的部分信息积累则是连续的,进一步证明了两种性质加工机制的存在。结论认为：语义信息加工中存在着两种性质的加工：离散性加工机制和连续性加工机制,熟悉性是影响二者关系的一个重要因素。     

循证医学指导医疗实践

循证医学的发展强调医疗决策物制定应将个人的临床经验与现有的最可信的临床研究证据进行完善结合。促进了医学模式的转化,对医疗实践起指导作用。现就循证医学对心血管病临床实践的指导作用的必要性和可能性及其内容作一简述。     

循证医学的实践与医学研究的方法

循证医学的问世为医学家进行临床科研提供了新的思维和新的方法。英国前瞻性糖尿病研究关于强化血糖控制和血压控制能减少Ⅱ型糖尿病并发症危险性的成果;西苏格兰冠心病预防研究、北欧辛伐他湘生存研究所揭示的降脂治疗在冠心病一级预防、二级预防中的作用;高血压最佳治疗国际性研究阐明了严格降压对于防治肾脏并发症等成果。充分显示了人们在社会实践中获得取认识,又用这一认识能动地改造客观世界的全过程。     

Between conflict and reconciliation: the hard truth

In the context of the fairly recent Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRC), I examine phenomenologically the nature of truth as the essential condition for overcoming social and political conflicts, and as an instrument for enforcing so-called “transitional justice” periods and promoting reconciliation. I also briefly approach the limits of this truth’s possibility of being recognized, if its evaluative and practical dimensions and its appeal to an “intelligence of emotions” do not prevail over its merely theoretical claims. Though not expounding Schutz’s and Husserl’s contributions, and meditating on phenomena they did not deal with, I carry out this reflection inspired by their work and methodological approach. The case study used as an intuitive illustration is the recent Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

对心血管病学若干进展的反思

心电起搏的发展经历曲折的过程,反映出以技术和设备为本的缺陷,以人为本可弥补这些缺陷;对介入新技术的过热应用反映了以技术为本的弊端;临床试验证据只反映某种情况下的患者共性,对试验证据的僵化理解和运用违背了循证医学的本义,以人为本可较好地解决这一矛盾;预防为主是以人为本的最好体现,应得到广泛的重视和实施。以人为本是医学的核心价值和出发点。     

论学习迁移规律在中医教学过程中的地位与作用

学习迁移泛指一种学习对另一种学习的影响,一般指先前学习已获得的知识、技能、方法和态度对以后学习新的知识技能及研究解决问题的影响.通过学习迁移现象在中医教学过程中的不同表现,指出学习迁移规律是符合中医的教学规律的,有意识地应用学习迁移规律能够很好地促进中医教学,并就如何应用学习迁移规律改进中医教学提出了自己的看法.     

《周易参同契》作者新证(一)——从史料鉴别看《参同契》为齐人所著

本文根据有关《周易参同契》传世史料的性质和时代先后的不同,将其分为“唐五代以前的原始材料”和“宋代以后的考释材料”两部分,对这些材料的分析表明,《参同契》成书于汉代,是多人合作而著;其作者的籍贯有会稽说、鲁国说、郐国说,而世传娄敬著《参同契》及“三圣”“异人”等均无可稽考,所谓“鲁国鄙夫”是原文,“郐国鄙夫”不可靠,“会稽鄙夫”一语,不能确证就是吴越会稽。我们发现所言各家,除魏氏外均为齐人,而魏氏所在的会稽这个地名,也是源于齐鲁。所以,《周易参同契》乃是齐人所著。     

Does Evidence-Based Medicine Apply to Psychiatry?

Evidence-based psychiatry (EBP) has arisen through the application of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to psychiatry. However, there may be aspects of psychiatric disorders and treatments that do not conform well to the assumptions of EBM. This paper reviews the ongoing debate about evidence-based psychiatry and investigates the applicability, to psychiatry, of two basic methodological features of EBM: prognostic homogeneity of clinical trial groups and quantification of trial outcomes. This paper argues that EBM may not be the best way to pursue psychiatric knowledge given the particular features of psychiatric disorders and their treatments. As a result, psychiatry may have to develop its own standards for rigour and validity. This paper concludes that EBM has had a powerful influence on how psychiatry investigates and understands mental disorders. Psychiatry could influence EBM in return, reshaping it in ways that are more clinically useful and congruent with patients’ needs.     

Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: the case of anaphoric one

It is widely held that children's linguistic input underdetermines the correct grammar, and that language learning must therefore be guided by innate linguistic constraints. Here, we show that a Bayesian model can learn a standard poverty-of-stimulus example, anaphoric one , from realistic input by relying on indirect evidence, without a linguistic constraint assumed to be necessary. Our demonstration does, however, assume other linguistic knowledge; thus, we reduce the problem of learning anaphoric one to that of learning this other knowledge. We discuss whether this other knowledge may itself be acquired without linguistic constraints.