Xinli Wang

Juniata College
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    The microstructure of SiO thin films: from nanoclusters to nanocrystals
    with J. Wang, Q. Li, A. Hryciw, and A. Meldrum
    Philosophical Magazine 87 (1): 11-27. 2007.
  • Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally Using the Pomodoro Technique
    with F. Gobbo and M. Lane
    In Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe & Pär J. Ågerfalk (eds.), Agility Across Time and Space, Springer Verlag. pp. 149-166. 2010.
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    Genetic and Environmental Influences on Gambling: A Meta-Analysis of Twin Studies
    with Xuan Yan-Hua, Shu Li, Rui Tao, Jie Chen, Li-Lin Rao, and Rui Zheng
    Frontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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    Reference point-dependent tradeoffs in intertemporal decision making
    with Jeffrey S. Simons
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (5): 663-664. 2005.
    We agree with Ainslie's general approach to intertemporal choices and self-control. However, we argue that a concept of “will” is superfluous in explaining tradeoffs between SS (smaller and sooner) and LL (larger and later) rewards in a framework of temporal goal setting and goal aggregation. We provide an alternative framework of reference point-dependent tradeoffs between SS and LL options.
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    Low-cycle fatigue small crack initiation and propagation behaviour of cast magnesium alloys based on in-situ SEM observations
    with F. Liang, J. H. Fan, and F. H. Zhang
    Philosophical Magazine 86 (11): 1581-1596. 2006.
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    How is maternal survival related to reproductive success?
    with Ralph Hertwig
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (2): 236-237. 1999.
    Campbell's target article is a stimulating attempt to extend our understanding of sex differences in risk-taking behaviors. However, Campbell does not succeed in demonstrating that her account adds explanatory power to those (e.g., Daly & Wilson 1994) previously proposed. In particular, little effort was made to explore the causal links between survival (staying alive) and reproduction.
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    From Simon 's scissors for rationality to abc's adaptive toolbox
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (5): 765-766. 2000.
    The smartness of simple heuristics depends upon their fit to the structure of task environments. Being fast and frugal becomes psychologically demanding when a decision goal is bounded by the risk distribution in a task environment. The lack of clear goals and prioritized cues in a decision problem may lead to the use of simple but irrational heuristics. Future research should focus more on how people use and integrate simple heuristics in the face of goal conflict under risk.
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    Conservation combats exploitation: Choices within an evolutionary framework
    with Shu Li and Li-Lin Rao
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (4): 437-438. 2014.
    Intentional change when viewed as making a risky or intertemporal choice with evolutionary relevance helps us understand its successes and its failures. To promote future-oriented ecological rationality requires establishing a linkage between nongenetic, cultural, and symbolic selections and genetic adaptations. Coupled with biophilic instinct, intentional conservation is more likely to prevail against evolved desires of environmental exploitation.
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    Beyond “pardonable errors by subjects and unpardonable ones by psychologists”
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (5): 699-700. 2000.
    Violations and biases relative to normative principles of rationality tend to occur when the structure of task environments is novel or the decision goals are in conflict. The two blades of bounded rationality, the structure of task environments and the computational capacities of the actor, can sharpen the conceptual distinctions between the sources of the normative and descriptive gap.
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    Microstructural characterization of bulk Ti3AlC2ceramics
    with X. L. Ma †, Y. L. Zhu, and Y. C. Zhou
    Philosophical Magazine 84 (28): 2969-2977. 2004.
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    Cyber-Personality and Liking Expression: A Study From WeChat Users in China
    with Haojian Li
    Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
    Clicking the like button following a post on social media has become a common means of expressing and gathering social support online. Little is known about how liking expression is linked and regulated by personality traits and communication motives. Following a preliminary survey about the usage of the like function on WeChat, a Chinese social media platform, we conducted an online study to map the Big-Five personality traits and five communication motives to the frequency of liking expression…Read more
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    Solving multi-granularity temporal constraint networks
    with Claudio Bettini and Sushil Jajodia
    Artificial Intelligence 140 (1-2): 107-152. 2002.
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    Incommensurability and Comparative Philosophy
    Philosophy East and West 68 (2): 564-582. 2018.
    Comparative philosophy between two disparate cultural-philosophic traditions, such as Western and Chinese philosophy, has become a new trend of philosophical fashion in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Having learned from the past, contemporary comparative philosophers cautiously safeguard their comparative studies against two potential pitfalls, namely cultural universalism and cultural relativism. The Orientalism that assumed the superiority of the Occidental has become a m…Read more
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    Is the notion of semantic presupposition empty?
    Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 34 (73): 61-93. 1999.
    This paper is an attempt to clarify the notion of semantic presupposition and to refute Böer and Lycan's critique of that notion. The author presents a feasible and coherent formal definition of semantic presupposition after examining several popular definitions of the notion. In terms of this definition, two central arguments against semantic presupposition presented by Böer and Lycan are analyzed and responded to with care. It is concluded that the notion of semantic presupposition is not empt…Read more
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    On Davidson's refutation of conceptual schemes and conceptual relativism
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (1): 140-164. 2009.
    Despite Donald Davidson's influential criticism of the very notion of conceptual schemes, the notion continues enjoying its popularity in contemporary philosophy and, accordingly, conceptual relativism is still very much alive. There is one major reason responsible for Davidson's failure which has not been widely recognized: What Davidson attacks fiercely is not the very notion, but a notion of conceptual schemes, namely, the Quinean notion of conceptual schemes and its underlying Kantian scheme…Read more
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    Symbolic Logic Study Guide (a textbook)
    University Readers. 2009.
    The Symbolic Logic Study Guide is designed to accompany the widely used symbolic logic textbook Language, Proof and Logic (LPL), by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy (CSLI Publications 2003). The guide has two parts. The first part contains condensed, essential lecture notes, which streamline and systematize the first fourteen chapters of the book into seven teaching sections, and thus provide a clear, well-designed roadmap for the understanding of the text. The second part consists of twelve samp…Read more
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    The Issue of Defending the Rationality of Science (科学合理性辩护问题)
    with 王 新力
    自然辩证法通讯 11 (2): 20-30. 1989.
    on how to justify the rationality of sciences
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    Conceptual Schemes and Presuppositional Languages
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 6 119-124. 2007 reprint.
    The current discussions of conceptual schemes and related topics are misguided; for they are based on a tacit assumption that the difference between two schemes consists in the different distributions in truth-values. I argue that what should concern us, in the discussions of conceptual schemes and related issues, is not truth-values of assertions, but rather the truth-value-status of the sentences used to make the assertions. This is because the genuine conceptual innovation between alternative…Read more
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    A Presuppositional Approach to Conceptual Schemes
    with Ling Xu
    South African Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 404-421. 2010.
    The current discussions of conceptual schemes and related topics are misguided; for they have been focused too much on the truth-conditional notions of meaning/concepts and translation/interpretation in Tarski's style. It is exactly due to such a Quinean interpretation of the notion of conceptual schemes that the very notion of conceptual schemes falls prey to Davidson's attack. We argue that what should concern us in the discussions of conceptual schemes and related issues, following the initia…Read more
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    Why is mutual understanding between two substantially different comprehensive language communities often problematic and even unattainable? To answer this question, the author first introduces a notion of presuppositional languages. Based on the semantic structure of a presuppositional language, the author identifies a significant condition necessary for effective understanding of a language: the interpreter is able to effectively understand a language only if he/she is able to recognize and com…Read more
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    The Propositional vs. Hermeneutic Models of Cross-Cultural Understanding
    with Ling Xu
    South African Journal of Philosophy 28 (3): 312-331. 2009.
    What the authors attempt to address in this paper is a Kantian question: not whether, but how is cross -cultural understanding possible? And specifically, what is a more effective approach for cross -cultural understanding? The answer lies in an analysis of two different models of cross -cultural understanding, that is, propositional and hermeneutic understanding. To begin with, the author presents a linguistic interpretation of culture, i.e., a culture as a linguistically formulated and transmi…Read more
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    斯特劳逊 (Strawson)的语义预设概念在语义学和语言哲学研究上颇有建树。尽管如此,语义预设概念一直遭受来自各方面的批判。概要说来,对语义预设概念之批判主要来自两个方面:其一,试图抽去语义预设概念的逻辑基础,即非真值概念 (the notion of truthvaluelessness),从而达到间接地拒斥语义预设概念之目的。其二,直接批判语义预设概念本身。他们或者论证此概念在理论上不自恰或微不足道,或者断定即使此概念本身在理论上自恰,但实为一空洞无物之概念。因为我们根本找任何一个语义预设的具体例证。所以,语义预设概念不具任何真正的哲学意义。它只是一个当代神话,理应拒斥。 -/- 玻尔(S. Ber)和莱肯(W. Lycan)对语义预设概念的批判集中代表了以上两个方面。据我所知,迄今不曾有人对他们的批判予以全面和公正的反驳,以致于许多人人云亦云,使得他们的论点至今颇有影响。给予玻尔和莱恩的批判以全面反驳乃本文初衷。于此相关,我以为很有必要澄清对语义预设概念的诸多误解,从而确立一个理论上自恰,实际上可行,和确有实质性内容的语义预设概念。基于以上考虑,我对语义预设概念批判之反驳包括正…Read more