Chen Bo
Peking University
12 Papers
28 Citations
Chen Bo is an academic researcher from Peking University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chinese philosophy & Causal theory of reference. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Chen Bo include Shaanxi Normal University.
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Papers
Justification of Induction: Russell and Jin Yuelin. A Comparative Study
TL;DR: Jin Yuelin (1895-1984) as discussed by the authors is a Chinese logician and philosopher who is greatly influenced by Hume's and Russell's philosophies. But he is also skeptical about causality and induction.
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Six Groups of Paradoxes in Ancient China From the Perspective of Comparative Philosophy
TL;DR: The authors divide the sophisms and paradoxes put forth by Chinese thinkers of the pre-Qin period of China (before 221 BCE) into six groups: paradoxes of motion and infinity.
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Proper Names, Contingency A Priori and Necessity A Posteriori
TL;DR: This paper scrutinized Kripke's arguments for supposedly contingent a priori propositions and necessary a posteriori propositions involving proper names, and reached a negative conclusion, i.e. there are no such propositions, or at least the propositions given as examples are not such propositions.
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Two different approaches to philosophy a critical reflection on contemporary Chinese philosophy
TL;DR: In this article, a critical reflection on the current situation of Chinese philosophy is carried out, and two different approaches to philosophy are clarified: one is for scholars to focus on original texts and thought tradition, concerned with interpretation and inheritance; even in this way, scholars can achieve theoretical innovation through creative interpretation.
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A Descriptivist Refutation of Kripke's Modal Argument and of Soames's Defence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically challenge Kripke's modal argument and Soames's defence of this argument by arguing that, just like descriptions, names can take narrow or wide scopes over modalities, and that there is a big difference between the wide scope reading and the narrow scope reading of a modal sentence with a name.
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