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Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally Using the Pomodoro TechniqueIn Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe & Pär J. Ågerfalk (eds.), Agility Across Time and Space, Springer Verlag. pp. 149-166. 2010.
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9Genetic and Environmental Influences on Gambling: A Meta-Analysis of Twin StudiesFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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24Leave or Stay as a Risky Choice: Effects of Salary Reference Points and Anchors on Turnover IntentionFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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16Reference point-dependent tradeoffs in intertemporal decision makingBehavioral 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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18Low-cycle fatigue small crack initiation and propagation behaviour of cast magnesium alloys based on in-situ SEM observationsPhilosophical Magazine 86 (11): 1581-1596. 2006.
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44How is maternal survival related to reproductive success?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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38From Simon 's scissors for rationality to abc's adaptive toolboxBehavioral 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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17Conservation combats exploitation: Choices within an evolutionary frameworkBehavioral 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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21Beyond “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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12A pointer's hypothesis of general intelligence evolved from domain-specific demandsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 40. 2017.
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14Microstructural characterization of bulk Ti3AlC2ceramicsPhilosophical Magazine 84 (28): 2969-2977. 2004.
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9Cyber-Personality and Liking Expression: A Study From WeChat Users in ChinaFrontiers 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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76The psychology of the Monty Hall problem: discovering psychological mechanisms for solving a tenacious brain teaserJournal of Experimental Psychology: General 132 (1): 3. 2003.
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18Numerical solution for curved crack problem in elastic half-plane using hypersingular integral equationPhilosophical Magazine 89 (26): 2239-2253. 2009.
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11Solving multi-granularity temporal constraint networksArtificial Intelligence 140 (1-2): 107-152. 2002.
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Contemporary Inquiries Into the Foundational Issues of Philosophythe Commercial Press, China. 2002.
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366Debate on the Notion of Truth in the Phil Sci (科学哲学中有关科学真理性的争论))Developments in Philosophy of China (国内哲学动态) (115): 9-15. 1988.
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945Incommensurability and Comparative PhilosophyPhilosophy 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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586Is 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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425Linguistic Communication versus UnderstandingPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 78 (1): 71-84. 2009.It is a common wisdom that linguistic communication is different from linguistic understanding. However, the distinction between communication and understanding is not as clear as it seems to be. It is argued that the relationship between linguistic communication and understanding depends upon the notions of understanding and communication involved. Thinking along the line of propositional understanding and informative communication, communication can be reduced to mutual understanding. In contr…Read more
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700西方当代认识论之最新发展 (New Trents in Epistemology)In Jiyuan Yu Zhiwei Zhang (ed.), 西方人文社科前沿述评-哲学卷 (Series on Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Philosophy), 中国人民大学出版社 (china Renmin University Press). 2008.内容提要:本文综合评述当代认识论的现状以及主干近10 年来主要发展趋势和最新理论贡献。它首先介绍一些必要的理论背景:盖梯尔难题,闭合原则,内在论与外在论之争(第2节),然后分6 节集中讨论、评述:(i) 温和基础主义的兴起及发展(第3 节) ; (ii) 对认知怀疑论的最新表述及回应(第4 节) ; (iii) 认知无限辨明论(第5 节) ;(iv) 认知语境主义的兴起,其理论贡献,以及存在的问题;(v) 德性认识论的二个模型,它们的优点,和现有的问题。最后简单讨论当代认识论面临的危机与机遇。 -/- Abstract: This article surveys the current state of affairs and some important new developments of epistemology in the past 10 years. It first introduces some necessary theoretical background (the Gettier problem, the closure principle, and inter…Read more
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1332Taxonomy, truth-value gaps and incommensurability: a reconstruction of Kuhn's taxonomic interpretation of incommensurabilityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 33 (3): 465-485. 2002.Kuhn's alleged taxonomic interpretation of incommensurability is grounded on an ill defined notion of untranslatability and is hence radically incomplete. To supplement it, I reconstruct Kuhn's taxonomic interpretation on the basis of a logical-semantic theory of taxonomy, a semantic theory of truth-value, and a truth-value conditional theory of cross-language communication. According to the reconstruction, two scientific languages are incommensurable when core sentences of one language, which h…Read more
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509Alternative Conceptual Schemes and A Non-Kantian Scheme-Content DualismProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 39 267-275. 2012 reprint.D. Davidson argues that the existence of alternative conceptual schemes presupposes the Kantian scheme-content dualism, which requires a scheme-neutral empirical content and a fixed, sharp schemecontent distinction. The dismantlement of such a Kantian scheme-content dualism, which Davidson calls “the third dogma of empiricism”, would render the notion of alternative conceptual schemes groundless. To counter Davidson’s attack on the notion of alternative conceptual schemes, I argue that alternati…Read more
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505A Critique of the Translational Approach to IncommensurabilityPrima Philosophia 11 (3): 293-306. 1998.According to the received translational interpretation of incommensurability, incommensurability is viewed as untranslatability due to radical variance of meaning or reference of the terms in two competing scientific languages. The author argues that the translational approach to incommensurability does not effectively clarify the concept of incommensurability. Since it cannot provide us with tenable, integrated concept of incommensurability, it should be rejected
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2813On Davidson's refutation of conceptual schemes and conceptual relativismPacific 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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5750Symbolic 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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423The Issue of Defending the Rationality of Science (科学合理性辩护问题)自然辩证法通讯 11 (2): 20-30. 1989.on how to justify the rationality of sciences
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422Conceptual Schemes and Presuppositional LanguagesThe 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
Xinli Wang
Juniata College
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Juniata CollegePhilosophy DepartmentProfessor
Huntingdon, PA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Asian Philosophy |