Tess:a Phenomenal Body

Few people read Tess from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's"body theory".In Phenomenology of Perception,Merleau-Ponty states that it is body as the subject that perceives the world;such body is a phenomenal body in contrast to an objective body.Tess's"being in the world"through the body connotates a new way of looking at the classic Tess.Tess's way of perceiving and understanding the world also enlightens us about relationship between human and self,human and other,human and society,human and nature.

On the Historiographical Reform of General History of Chinese Science and Technologyin the Post-Needham Era

The research of General History of Chinese Science and Technology(GHCST) has so far failed to transcend the"positivist history", a program of historiography initiated by Joseph Needham. The historians after Needham have made important explorations on the historiographical reform of GHCST. However, nearly all of these explorations are still the methodological reflections of the positivist history perspective, failing to reflect metaphysically on such historiographical presuppositions as views of science, technology and history, which means they have failed to break away from the positivist history perspective. To go beyond the limitations of positivist history calls for the introduction of the perspective of phenomenology of body and reflecting on and criticizing the historiographical presuppositions of positivist history on a metaphysical level. Such reflection will lead us to a new program of historiography in the post-Needham era, that is"phenomenal history"or the GHCST from the perspective of the phenomenology of body.

Does consciousness overflow cognitive access?Novel insights from the new phenomenon of attribute amnesia

The moment we open our eyes,we experience a rich and detailed visual world,but the amount of information available to report is rather limited.This dissociation relates to a major debate regarding the nature of visual consciousness.The overflow argument suggests that our conscious experience is quite rich and far beyond what can be reported,standing in sharp contrast to the nooverflow argument that visual consciousness is severely impoverished and limited to what can be reported.In this paper,we systematically reviewed existing evidence in favor of the overflow argument,including studies of several variations of the iconic memory paradigm and the divided attention paradigm,as well as studies of neural correlates of consciousness.Simultaneously,we expounded some critical objections and alternative interpretations to such evidence,as well as some opposing evidence.Finally,we introduced a series of our recent studies based on a striking phenomenon of attribute amnesia,which we believe could provide new insight into the overflow view of visual consciousness.