The debate in philosophy and cognitive science about the Chinese Room Argument has focused on whether it shows that machines can have minds. We present a quantitative argument which shows that Searle’s thought experiment is not relevant to Turing’s Test for intelligence. Instead, we consider a narrower form of Turing’s Test, one that is restricted to the playing of a chess endgame, in which the...

To internationalize higher education, non-English dominant nations have increased English-medium instruction, posing challenges to non-native speaker (NNS) students’ written English ability. The present study examines nine American professors’ literacy brokerage at an English-medium summer school in China, where they taught courses in art history, history, philosophy, political science, psychol...

Abstract Governance is essentially a dynamic mechanism to promote collective action for the common good. The Chinese concept of public/common ( gōnggòng ) and its political philosophy Grand Union governance provide an alternative perspective understanding such dynamics from unit family through institutions state-embedded society. Three critical arguments with interconnected elements are analyse...

Philosophy is akin to poetry due their respective endeavour express the ultimate good sense which we term civilization. This can be exemplified through Chinese vision of waterscapes found running philosophy and alike. As observed in tradition, Daoist water allegory referred “the supreme good”. It further explicated with reference Confucian appreciation “huge waterscapes” terms moral symbolism. ...

Introduction. The article is devoted to the consideration of conditions and possibilities a positive study philosophy East. world domestic experience in interpreting texts Eastern thinkers was based on those cognitive methodological strategies that were formed mainstream classical Oriental studies have pronounced philological, historical or regional character. This only distorted view philosoph...

A year before his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin was invited by a Chinese scholar named Ouyang Kang to write a summary of his thought for the Chinese reading public. Berlin, as Dr Henry Hardy recalls, much valued this new readership, and therefore wrote his last essay, ‘My Intellectual Path’. It was first published in English in the New York Review of Books, and then included in The Power of Idea...

Wherever there are humans, exploration of the inherent relationship between humans and nature is always examined. Before rational thinking was fully developed, human beings tried to explain natural phenomena and the impact of nature on themselves using myths and primitive religions. The fear of birth and death turned into the fear of ghosts, and the doubt of pain transformed into the pursuit of...

The articles on China and Japan in this special issue deal with modernity postmodernity as exemplified by modern Chinese writers, such Yu Dafu (1896–1945) Fei Ming (1901–1967); contemporary Japanese Can Xue Sayaka Murata; the connections between life antiquarian book collections Macau. These articles, hailing from different perspectives provided history, philosophy, translation studies, collect...