婴儿的数认知核心系统

在简要回顾双系统假设产生过程的基础上,重点分析了双系统理论的要点、工作机理、实验依据,具体包括小数量精确表征系统和大数量近似表征系统的实验依据.最后讨论了婴儿数量认知的行为和脑生理机制研究中的问题和争论点以及数量认知研究中的矛盾结果和方法局限,并探讨了婴儿数认知是独立的系统还是需要多系统联合参与等七个亟待解决的课题.     

数学不良儿童的书写运动控制特征

选取小学生47名,其中23名为数学不良,24名为一般儿童,使用数码写字板,测试二者在自然和双任务条件下,书写一条横线的速度、加速度。结果发现：（1）自然条件下书写,MD儿童的速度、加速度与一般儿童相一致,两者的差异均不显著。（2）双任务条件下书写,MD儿童的总体平均速度、加速度明显慢于一般儿童的,两者的差异均显著。     

Against digital ontology

The paper argues that digital ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is digital, and the universe is a computational system equivalent to a Turing Machine) should be carefully distinguished from informational ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is structural), in order to abandon the former and retain only the latter as a promising line of research. Digital vs. analogue is a Boolean dichotomy typical of our computational paradigm, but digital and analogue are only “modes of presentation” of Being (to paraphrase Kant), that is, ways in which reality is experienced or conceptualised by an epistemic agent at a given level of abstraction. A preferable alternative is provided by an informational approach to structural realism, according to which knowledge of the world is knowledge of its structures. The most reasonable ontological commitment turns out to be in favour of an interpretation of reality as the totality of structures dynamically interacting with each other. The paper is the first part (the pars destruens) of a two-part piece of research. The pars construens, entitled “A Defence of Informational Structural Realism”, is developed in a separate article, also published in this journal.     

循环系统的数学模型及仿真实验

循环系统建立数学模型与计算机仿真是一种新型研究方法。它将有关循环系统的生理和物理学知识整合起来 ,构成数学模型 ,然后进行计算机仿真研究。这种方法已应用于研究循环系统的生理及病理机制、疾病治疗手段和超常环境下循环障碍及其防护措施     

《理想国》研究（节选）

本文以读书札记的形式,选取《理想国》中的典型部分,进行了简明扼要的分析研究,指出《理想国》蕴含了柏拉图的多种思想,其中心不在于ontology和epistemology,而在于ethics,ethics的要点则在于psychology.     

Mathematics and Theology: A Stroll through the Garden of Mathaphors

Mathematics has long been considered the language of science and has even been acknowledged as the universal language of the future. Yet mathematics also plays a less-recognized religious role in that metaphors drawn from mathematics (mathaphors) can influence our spiritual perspectives by helping us to entertain new religious ideas and to challenge old ones. Mathaphors are therefore useful tools in matheology (the study of mathematics and theology). This essay explores ten ways in which contemporary mathaphors affect our spiritual lives. Specifically, mathaphors are: changing our metaphors for God; challenging our human role in the universe; helping us accept ambiguity; revamping our understanding of the one and the many; revising our thoughts about free will and determinism; moving us toward pluralistic, multi-world views; pushing the envelope on what consciousness is; altering our expectations for afterlife; offering the hope of a more compassionate future; encouraging faith perspectives that are always incomplete and in process.     

Good and Bad Years: An Index of American Social,Economic, and Political Threat (1920–1986)

Information provided by 196 U.S. history professors, indicating the degree to which they considered each of the years from 1920 to 1986 threatening to the established order and way of life in America, was pooled to form a social, economic, and political threat (SEPT) index. Interrater reliability was high, and substantial test-retest reliability was evident for a selected subsample over a 6-month period. The index significantly correlated with 11 objective indices of threat, including the suicide rate, unemployment rate, rise and fall of common stocks, and number of military men on active duty. Several studies involving threat and authoritarianism were replicated and in some instances extended with the SEPT index (McCann & Stewin, 1984; Sales, 1972, 1973). The pseudo-archival SEPT index has utility when relatively global estimates of prevailing threat are required for historiometric research testing a diversity of hypotheses gleaned from psychological, sociological, historical, and political science theories.     

Scientific Philosophy,Mathematical Philosophy,and All That

This article suggests that scientific philosophy, especially mathematical philosophy, might be one important way of doing philosophy in the future. Along the way, the article distinguishes between different types of scientific philosophy; it mentions some of the scientific methods that can serve philosophers; it aims to undermine some worries about mathematical philosophy; and it tries to make clear why in certain cases the application of mathematical methods is necessary for philosophical progress.