Thought experiments have long been utilized in science and philosophy. They come various forms, from Schrödinger's cat physics to the Chinese room argument Although thought are used widely, scant attention has paid how actually work. In philosophy literature, it argued that a disguised form of meaning analysis. rely on notion analyticity their basis, therefore they should be abandoned. this pap...

In his general assessment of Chinese research in philosophy of science and STS studies, Professor Li Xia characterizes recent developments as “substantial progress.” I cannot bring myself to agree. Since I suspect that we share a similar perspective on the current scene, I am puzzled by the optimistic generalization Li has offered. After all, Li is the author of many blistering criticisms of cu...

A few years ago, Arthur Wolf compared the oral and literary evidence that the pretransitional Chinese had practiced deliberate birth control to an elephant in the living room: “There would be evidence of its presence everywhere”. He stated that all suggestions of wide spread birth control were utterly misguided: “Who, then, cleaned up after the elephant? No one. There was no elephant”. 1 With t...

The great Marxist sinologist Joseph Needham blamed Buddhism for stifling science and technology in China while they flourished in Europe. In claiming that everything is an illusion, Buddhism ‘played a part in strangling the development of Chinese science’. Zen Buddhism, in ‘rejecting all philosophy’ was also unfavourable to a scientific view. Since the Buddha refused to speculate, Buddhism disc...

PURPOSE There is accumulating evidence for the efficacy of nonpharmacological multimodal stimulation interventions in maintaining cognition and improving quality of life in people with mild-to-moderate dementia. However, the complex nature of these interventions limits their application in practice and research. We report here the design and development of a culturally appropriate framework, th...

In October 2007, a joint meeting was held successfully on Zijinggang campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, between the Chinese Comparative Physiology Committee (CCPC) of the Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences (CAPS) and a consortium of scientists from around the world under the umbrella of comparative physiology, biochemistry, and toxicology. Hangzhou is situated in the gr...

We analyse and compare the difference in discipline level of the received citations over a period of time and across fields in China by implementing the diachronous methods of bibliometrics. The citations of 896,645 papers from the Chinese Citation Database (1994 to 2013) that comprised four disciplines, namely, Philosophy, Library and Information Science (LIS), Physics, and Mechanical Engineer...

A full exploration of the essence management science in traditional culture is an important path for modern enterprises’ innovation thought. Taoist branch Chinese culture. Lao Tzu's philosophical system contains not only rich philosophical, ecological, and military thought, but also playing a quite conductive role constructing theory that tailors to local reality China. philosophy, such as " Da...

Patients' own account of the clinical progress is particularly important in situations of pain control, mental disturbances, and chronic problems. Chinese medicine does not directly target against a symptom or pathology, but emphasizes the maintenance of harmony between the vital forces of an individual. To achieve the harmony, usually long-termed treatment is required by consideration of the c...