Empirical philosophies of mind

Three anthropological contributions within the debates on rationality and modes of thought are considered here: Horton's ‘African Traditional Thought and Western Science’, Gellner's Legitimation of Belief and Needham's Belief, Language and Experience. It is argued that within these texts, seemingly diverse and even opposed in theoretical position though they are, certain anthropological imperatives are common. Various philosophical views are invoked in these works in order to grapple with recurrent problems of social anthropology, a discipline conceived as the ‘empirical philosophy of mind’ and expressing itself as an essentially epistemological discourse. These attempts are unsuccessful but the reasons for their lack of success can be traced to certain constraints within the anthropological problematic itself.     

以科学发展观反思解放思想

以科学发展观的基本精神反思解放思想,突显出我们在解放思想中存在着一些形式主义的弊端,从而对解放思想在基层日常工作中的持续推进缺乏应有的重视。把握科学发展观与解放思想的辨证关系,通过深入实践,深化民主,与时俱进,尊重人民群众的实践主体地位,促使解放思想在实践中实现常态化。     

Exploring the complementary effect of post-structuralism on sociocultural theory of mind and activity

This article explores the methodological value of post-structuralism for sociocultural theory. The Peircean notion of knowledge serves as a rationale for incorporating a post-structuralist perspective of discourse into Vygotsky-inspired sociocultural approach to conceptual development. Central to this incorporation is an analytic frame of reference devised to examine how knowledge construction is mediated through the use of language and other semiotic tools. The article provides an interpretive analysis of mother–child interaction in the reading of dual-language picture books, interwoven with a post-structuralist exposition of knowledge, power and discourse. It is suggestive of what sociocultural theory would need to consider in terms of power relations when theorising the role of semiotic mediation in transforming human mind and activity.     

邓小平在解放思想的论述中阐发的党建思想

解放思想、实事求是,这是邓小平理论的精髓。然而在其中邓小平阐发着深刻的党建思想,体现在党的思想路线方面,党的发展方面和党的思想建设与其他各项建设的关系等方面,这些对于加强新时期执政党建设,具有十分重要的指导意义。     

论二元论的生存理念与人的身心和谐

确立"二元论"的生存理念对于调整和平衡人的身心状态具有高屋建瓴的引导作用,同时又能为之提供深层的生存论根基。它告诉人们既要珍惜现存,又要超越现存;既不能盲目乐观,也不能绝对悲观。在"二元论"生存理念的引领下,人通过不断地自我发展、自我完善,从而实现身心的和谐与健康。     

试述张爱玲小说的人物心理刻画及女性的"原罪意识"

张爱玲是40年代沦陷区的天才女作家,本文将从小说的人物心理刻画及女性的“原罪意识”两个方面入手。谈谈对张爱玲作品叙事内容的某些看法。