Can Kant’s Transcendental Self Be Interpreted in Terms of Functionalism?

Xu Qiushi28

Influenced by the contemporary philosophy of mind, some scholars in recent years have used the popular functionalist view to interpret Kant’s transcendental self. This paper attempts to argue that even in Kant’s theoretical philosophy, the transcendental self is to be regarded as having absolute spontaneity and therefore needs to presuppose the distinction between noumena and phenomena, and that functionalism cannot explain this characteristic of the transcendental self due to its metaphysical background which is essentially different from Kant’s transcendentalidealism, and therefore the functionalist reading of the transcendental self represented by Kitcher and Brook is not justified.

Generative Artificial Intelligence and New Forms of Knowledge Production
——Analysis on the Production of the Third Order Knowledge

Xiao Feng50

Knowledge production is the “main business” of human beings in the era of intelligence. Generative artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT is deeply intervening and changing the way and connotation of human knowledge production, making “third-order knowledge production” move towards the forefront on the basis of existing first-order and second-order knowledge production. Third-order knowledge production has opened up new ways of intelligent interaction such as text automatic generation and human-machine dialogue, which can provide powerful assistance for people to improve efficiency and obtain inspiration in knowledge production.It can also replace some traditional second-order knowledge production activities and expand new paths for improving first-order knowledge production capacity. Positioning the epistemological function of generative artificial intelligence through third-order knowledge helps us to reasonably evaluate the value and significance of new knowledge production tools such as ChatGPT.

Interactions and Symbiosis of “Heterogeneous”: A Media Study Approach to Artificial Intelligence

Sun Wei58

From a media study perspective, research on artificial intelligence examines the explicit behaviors of humanmachine interactions, drawing insights from both technological and humanist approaches. It delves into the specific implications and societal impacts of systematic interactions between humans and intelligent machine systems. The role of the media is to connect, interact, transform, and generate, with artificial intelligence heavily reliant on the mechanisms and operations of human-machine interaction systems. In this perspective, the key to understanding the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence lies in unraveling the interactions and symbiosis of heterogeneous systems. This paper argues the interactions arising from the convergence of diverse intelligent digital entities and the symbiotic relationships among subject nodes within digital systems mark a novel facet of an intelligent society and a new form of humanity.

Commercial Health Insurance in China:Demand Satisfaction, Market Rules and High Quality Development

Wang Wan94

Commercial health insurance was an important institutional arrangement that meet public needs for medical care and health improvement, which allocated resources through the market mechanism. Promoting the highquality development of commercial health insurance was of great significance for improving the multilevel health security system and promoting the development of the national economy. With the continuous improvement of the national economic level and public health awareness, the potential consumer group size of commercial health insurance was growing, and the development prospect was broad. Facing the future, it should further raise the awareness of commercial health insurance, optimize its external policy environment and stimulate its endogenous development momentum. Developing refined health insurance product, deepening the integration of the health industry chain, and promoting professional health management service should be the key direction for promoting its high-quality development.

Pevsner and Ruskin: A Dialogue Between British Art Criticism and Historical Writing

Chen Shuhuan127

From the perspective of intellectual history, this paper focuses on the development of criticism as a kind of historical understanding, explores the dialogue between British art criticism and historical writing in the 19thand 20thcenturies in the way of case comparison, and thinks about its impact on the interdisciplinary research of art theory and historical theory. Ruskin and Pevsner are British theorists who have extensive influence on the development of British landscape, architecture and design theory and history in the 19thand 20thcenturies respectively. They are writers, critics, history writers and public intellectuals, and both are widely recognized in the field of British art and cultural studies, but there are few specific studies on the relationship between the two in art criticism and historical consciousness. This paper is dedicated to advancing research in this area. “Pevsner and Ruskin” can be regarded as a reasonably constructed art criticism as a historical understanding, a dialogue,communication, and even confrontation with historical writing. At the same time, the dialogue opens up further space for discussion about how we see Britain’s 19thand 20thcentury past and its writing in the 21stcentury.

“All True History is Contemporary History” and “All History is the History of Thought”
——Croce’s Influence on Collingwood

Yao Hanchang135

“All true history is contemporary history” and “All history is the history of thought” are the famous sayings of Croce and Collingwood respectively. There is a certain similarity between these two famous quotes, which shows that Collingwood shares some of Croce’s beliefs to a certain extent, including the distinction between history and natural science, the epistemology of historical knowledge, and the realistic value of history etc. In fact, Croce do have a certain influence on Collingwood in the philosophy of history. However, from a deeper perspective, Croce’s “all true history is contemporary history” is different from Collingwood’s “all history is the history of thought” in some respects. This difference shows that Collingwood inherited and developed Croce’s philosophy of history. This article intends to start from the aspects of how Collingwood and Croce intersect academically, what common beliefs and differences exist between “all true history is contemporary history” and“all history is the history of thought”, distinguishes and analyzes the similarities and differences between Croce and Collingwood’s historical concepts.

The Modern Significance of the Writing of Urban Public Space in the Overseas Travel Notes in the Late Qing Dynasty

Jiang Shuzhuo and Tang Yingxin146

As an important part of the overall spatial structure of the city, the urban public space reflects the important characteristics of the city. After the Opium War, Chinese in the late Qing Dynasty who went abroad had more possibilities to experience the overseas modern cities. These tourists observed a large number of open and shared public places in the overseas cities, and felt that these places provided diversity of choices for people’s public life and entertainment. The experience of urban public space written of the overseas travel notes in the late Qing Dynasty became one of the important ways to promote the people of the late Qing Dynasty to experience modernity. Behind the pleasant physical and mental experiences brought by the overseas travel notes in the late Qing Dynasty, the crisis consciousness generated by the comparison of the gap between China and the West was highlighted. The crisis consciousness enabled them to have an intuitive and clear cognition of modern civilization, and also prompted them to reflect on the current situation of China. They projected their cultural desires onto the construction of the urban public space, not only expressing themselves through others, but also opening a window to the outside world. Their extraterritorial travels have been deeply imprinted with modern experiences. This just reflects the real situation in the initial stage of Chinese modernization consciousness.

A Rhetoric of Modernity: The Genetic Logic of the “New Women” Discourse in the Chinese Cultural Field

Gai Qi153

From the perspective of modern discourse construction, the phrase “New Women” was not induced in China until the late 1910s to the early 1920s during the New Culture Movement. The “Quasi-New Women”discourse in the late Qing Dynasty and the “New Women” discourse in the New Culture Movement are both connected and differentiated as modern rhetorics with women as the signifiers. The genesis of “New Women”discourse is linked to the modernization imagination paradigm evolution in different periods, which means,from the nationalist modernization imagination paradigm of the Late Qing Dynasty New Intellectuals to the individualist modernization imagination paradigm of the May Forth New Intellectuals. Therefore, we should stand on a global position and combine with a conceptual history analysis method to re-examine the genetic logic of the “New Women” discourse in the Chinese cultural field. In doing these, we could understand deeply why the individualism discourse under the enlightenment modernity framework has been unable to get out of predicaments in China, and we could also recognize historically why the prospect for the Marxist personal development theory should be very positive in nowadays.