Making sense of the senses across species boundaries: designing the Animal Senses gallery at National Museums Scotland

As one of a suite of natural science galleries in the National Museum of Scotland, Animal Senses presents a comprehensive overview of how animals have evolved senses as they have adapted to different ecological niches in order to find food or avoid predation. Using different sensory channels, they also have evolved means of communication to attract mates, deter rivals, and remain hidden from predators and prey. Some of the most extraordinary examples of evolution are those which mimic the appearance of another unrelated species or some feature of the environment such as a thorn on a bush or a piece of coral. New taxidermy and models, engaging text presented hierarchically, and fun interactives were developed specifically for this gallery in order to present an up-to-date review of senses and communication. However, its real strength is the wide array of real specimens and life-size models which allow visitors to see what these animals really look like and how big they are, experiences which cannot be emulated by books or electronic media. By taking a thematic approach, we have created an unrivalled opportunity to compare animals from different taxonomic groups to see how they have solved the problems of life by evolving similar structures or completely different ones in order to find food, avoid being eaten, navigate, find mates and deceive rivals and predators.     

Confidence distributions applied to propagating uncertainty to inference based on estimating the local false discovery rate: A fiducial continuum from confidence sets to empirical Bayes set estimates as the number of comparisons increases

Empirical Bayes estimates of the local false discovery rate can reflect uncertainty about the estimated prior by supplementing their Bayesian posterior probabilities with confidence levels as posterior probabilities. This use of coherent fiducial inference with hierarchical models generates set estimators that propagate uncertainty to varying degrees. Some of the set estimates approach estimates from plug-in empirical Bayes methods for high numbers of comparisons and can come close to the usual confidence sets given a sufficiently low number of comparisons.     

王夫之《张子正蒙》诠释方法论初探?

与北宋中期以来包括二程、朱熹在内的许多儒家学者的有关看法相比较，王夫之关于《正蒙》的文本观念，是全面的、深刻的，有着一定的独到性、创造性和科学性。正是从这种文本观念出发，王夫之建构起富有创造性的四种诠释方法论：语言诠释方法，体验诠释方法，类推诠释方法，贯通诠释方法。运用这些方法，王夫之务必要在程朱二子之外另辟蹊径，对于张载创立的“真孟子以后所未有也”的哲学理论大力阐发，在新的社会文化条件下予以重建，从而力图推进中国哲学的发展，挽回当世“人心之横流”！     

翻译专业建设的几点思考

经过近年来的发展建设,我国翻译专业人才培养已经形成了包括本科、硕士、博士在内的完整的教学体系,特别是MTI的设立形成了翻译专业建设和研究的新热潮,取得的成绩喜人,同时暴露出来的问题也不容忽视,专业建设中的重要问题需要我们不断深入思考探讨摸索,使翻译专业建设健康发展。     

农业社会学:经典命题及其延续

作为一门新兴学科,农业社会学近年来在中国呈现出良好的发展势头。一门学科的发展,需要通过不断的知识积累和经验研究进行一砖一瓦的建设,其中理论建设尤其重要。同其他社会科学一样,经典文本在农业社会学的理论建设中具有核心位置。 本专题选取了三个(对)农业社会学中的经典命题:农业的生产时间与劳动时间、农业技术变迁中的占取主义与替代主义,以及技术采用中的“农业跑步机理论冶。按照时代背景、原典阐释、学术延续以及启发意义的思路撰写,尝试为农业社会学的入门者提供一种理论梳理的路径。     

古代突厥文碑铭的发现和解读--纪念汤木森解读古代突厥文一百一十年

文章概述了突厥汗国的发展变化历程和古代突厥文碑铭的发现及研究情况 ,以纪念丹麦科学家魏·汤木森成功解读古代突厥文 1 1 0年 ,并反思了中国在此领域的研究状况。     

论戴震的《毛诗补传》

考证《毛诗补传》,从释诗特点来看,戴氏解《诗》讲求实证,尽可能以史实、风物民情、俗语以及各种名物制度诠释诗语,力求还原诗语之本义;从诗学观点来看,戴氏解《诗》重诗旨。围绕“旨”之传达,戴氏考析诗人之“意”与作品之“辞”的复杂关系,以及诗的“喻象”、“借比”对“诗旨”的表现意义,提出“托”于表象以见“旨”的诗创作形态。     

从“诠释学”到“诠释之道” ——中国诠释学研究的合法性依据与发展方向

依据中国学术的一贯传统,所谓“诠释学”实际上就是“诠释之道”,有古今之别,更有中西之异。据此,不仅可从根本上阐明中国诠释学研究的合法性,厘清中西诠释传统和理论之间的关系,更能获得中国诠释学研究在“后西方”时代的自我定位和发展方向。中国诠释学研究所要努力探索和建构的,乃是中华文明的现代诠释之道,它将继承和弘扬中华文明的诠释传统,自成一体而又具有充分的开放性、涵摄性和普适性。     

陈用光与姚鼐尺牍解读

陈用光从姚鼐求学,为嘉庆、道光年间传扬姚鼐之学最有力者之一。陈用光与姚鼐尺牍交往颇多,尺牍成为陈用光与姚鼐讨论诗文学问的载体。通过尺牍的往来,促进了桐城派成员之间的交流;推动了成员之间的文学创作;深化了对汉宋之争等问题的认识,这无疑有利于桐城派的进一步发展。     

感应关系中的理想人格

中国传统心理思想不把理想人格当作某种独立于人的客观存在,而总是将其置于感应关系中.感应关系注重相互影响:对理想人格采取感叹、比兴、以具体言行呈现形象的叙事方式能加强其感染力;而以崇敬之情、凝聚的精神去了解理想人格也容易与之发生感通.对理想人格的内在理解须经过人格转化的过程,以自身的体验印证理想人格的言行.诠释、感应、人格转化同时完成.