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8Liberal constitution, civic enlightenment, and colonies: Jeremy Bentham on the Spanish empireHistory of European Ideas 50 (2): 228-248. 2024.ABSTRACT Between April 1820 and April 1822, stimulated by the restoration of the Cádiz Constitution, Bentham devoted himself to writing a number of works on the constitutional reform and colonial rule of Spain, which have been sources of a scholarly debate over Bentham's views on colony. By examining those works, this essay aims to supplement the scholarly debate by drawing attention to a thesis that Bentham developed in his criticism and evaluation of the Cádiz Constitution: a thesis concerning…Read more
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30Perceptual learning and recognition confusion reveal the underlying relationships among the six basic emotionsCognition and Emotion 33 (4): 754-767. 2018.ABSTRACTThe six basic emotions have long been considered discrete categories that serve as the primary units of the emotion system. Yet recent evidence indicated underlying connections among them. Here we tested the underlying relationships among the six basic emotions using a perceptual learning procedure. This technique has the potential of causally changing participants’ emotion detection ability. We found that training on detecting a facial expression improved the performance not only on the…Read more
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4Property law treats intellectual property (IP) differently than physical property. This paper draws upon John Locke’s labor mixing theory of property to explain why we have different moral expectations for IP. In particular, this paper aims to demonstrate that a Lockean account leads to the conclusion that intellectual property rights must be limited by a policy of expiration although we have no such expectations for physical property. In so doing, this paper begins with an explanation of Locke’…Read more
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Utaki and Ashagi sacred forests on the Ryukyu Islands: vegetation structure and conservation management challengesIn Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.), Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation, Routledge. 2022.
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China's fengshui forests: the fate of lineage wind-water polities under ecological civilizationIn Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.), Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation, Routledge. 2022.
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East Asia-sacred forests and human-environment relationsIn Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.), Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation, Routledge. 2022.
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11Ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation: A report from the People's Republic of ChinaDeveloping World Bioethics 23 (1): 34-40. 2022.The recent advances in assisted reproductive technology, such as hormonal stimulation, IVF, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), have made it possible to circumvent many causes of male and female factor infertility. However, uterine infertility is still considered an ‘‘unconditionally infertile’’ condition. Owing to the continued advances in organ transplantation, microvascular anastomosis techniques, and immunosuppressive medicine, the transplantation of organs is no longer restricted t…Read more
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11Ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation: A report from the People's Republic of ChinaDeveloping World Bioethics 23 (1): 34-40. 2022.The recent advances in assisted reproductive technology, such as hormonal stimulation, IVF, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), have made it possible to circumvent many causes of male and female factor infertility. However, uterine infertility is still considered an ‘‘unconditionally infertile’’ condition. Owing to the continued advances in organ transplantation, microvascular anastomosis techniques, and immunosuppressive medicine, the transplantation of organs is no longer restricted t…Read more
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15Ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation: A report from the People's Republic of ChinaDeveloping World Bioethics 23 (1): 34-40. 2022.The recent advances in assisted reproductive technology, such as hormonal stimulation, IVF, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), have made it possible to circumvent many causes of male and female factor infertility. However, uterine infertility is still considered an ‘‘unconditionally infertile’’ condition. Owing to the continued advances in organ transplantation, microvascular anastomosis techniques, and immunosuppressive medicine, the transplantation of organs is no longer restricted t…Read more
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85Avoidant strategy in insecure femalesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (1): 25-26. 2009.This commentary cites evidence to argue that girls growing up in a competitive and aggressive environment are more likely to shift to avoidant attachment than to ambivalent attachment in middle childhood. These avoidant women are also more likely to favor a short-term mating strategy. The role of oxytocin (OT) and early experience in shaping an avoidant attachment in females is also discussed
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14The effect of domain-general inhibition-related training on language switching: An ERP studyCognition 146 (C): 264-276. 2016.
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27Building Up a Robust Risk Mathematical Platform to Predict Colorectal CancerComplexity 1-14. 2017.
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17Ernest Nagel's Model of Reduction and Theory ChangeInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 36 (1): 19-37. 2023.A longstanding criticism of Ernest Nagel's model of reduction is that it fails to take theory change into account. This criticism builds on the received view that Nagelian reductions are incompatible with theory change. This article challenges the received view by showing that Nagel's model can easily accommodate theory change. Indeed, Nagel's model is essentially static as it only gives unchanging formal and nonformal conditions for reduction; in contrast, theory change belongs to the dynamic h…Read more
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315Metaphysics, Function and the Engineering of Life: the Problem of VitalismKairos 20 (1): 113-140. 2018.Vitalism was long viewed as the most grotesque view in biological theory: appeals to a mysterious life-force, Romantic insistence on the autonomy of life, or worse, a metaphysics of an entirely living universe. In the early twentieth century, attempts were made to present a revised, lighter version that was not weighted down by revisionary metaphysics: “organicism”. And mainstream philosophers of science criticized Driesch and Bergson’s “neovitalism” as a too-strong ontological commitment to the…Read more
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106Contextual and Structural Explanations in the Philosophy of Language: Differences Between Western and Chinese Orientations of Thought as Observed Through the Use of the Subjunctive MoodJournal of Human Cognition 1 (1): 53-72. 2017.Compared with Western Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy seldom talks about "the other world". This difference can be further proved in language categories. What exists in language text is different from what exists in language structure or language categories. Language categories reflect the styles of deep thinking. The lacking of subjunctive in Chinese language reflects the indifference between facts and ultra-facts in Chinese minds. There is a pan-fact attention in Chinese culture, while an ultra…Read more
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1Jing ji lun li xueDongbei cai jing da xue chu ban she. 2001.本书包括三大篇:第一篇:基础理论篇、第二篇:实际应用篇、第三篇:发展建设篇等。
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4A Historico-Logical Re-assessment of Hans Driesch’s VitalismIn Christopher Donohue & Charles T. Wolfe (eds.), Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 49-65. 2022.Today vitalism is widely dismissed as a metaphysical heresy. For instance, Brigandt and Love (Reductionism in biology. In: Zalta EN (ed) The stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, 2017) claimed that “the denial of physicalism by vitalism, the doctrine that biological systems are governed by forces that are not physico-chemical, is largely of historical interest” (p. 3). Perhaps the most “infamous” vitalist is the German biologist Hans Driesch. However, Driesch (In Rádl E (ed) Actes du Huitième Con…Read more
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9Maintaining Basic Social Ethics: Economic Man or Social Man?Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 20 (1): 17-18. 2023.
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7The Impossible Triangle Model of Pandemic Prevention and ControlJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 20 (1): 19-20. 2023.
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8Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation (edited book)Routledge. 2022.Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems developed during the pre-colonia…Read more
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Utaki and Ashagi sacred forests on the Ryukyu Islands: vegetation structure and conservation management challengesIn Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.), Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation, Routledge. 2022.
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East Asia-sacred forests and human-environment relationsIn Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.), Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation, Routledge. 2022.