• 2023-03-15
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北京大学博古睿研究中心(以下简称“中心”)于2018年12月19日正式成立。中心是由北京大学和博古睿研究院共同发起的“思想库”,聚焦东西方对话,对影响人类变革的深刻变化开展跨文化、跨学科研究。中心聘请中国最杰出的学者进行研究、传播并推动产生应对全球挑战的新理念。中心研究人员和学者关注前沿技术和社会治理等相关主题,特别是人工智能、基因编辑对人类社会发展的影响,以及全球治理变革等议题。博古睿研究院持续投入中心建设,包括设立“博古睿学者”项目,举办学术讲座、学术研讨会,支持学术出版,推出全媒体传播产品以及其他项目活动。

点击阅读中心2022年度报告。


博古睿学者(北京大学博古睿研究中心)在聘期内的研究需要突显与中心“前沿科技与哲学”、“创意未来”、“古典智慧与行星治理”三个大的议题方向有关的主题(对这三个方向与已有研究项目的介绍,请参考下文中的项目简介)。在这三个大的议题引导下,申请人需自拟具体的研究项目。

我们欢迎包括科学、哲学、社会学、艺术等各领域思考者加入。

2022-2023博古睿学者信息

https://www.berggruen.org/people/group/currentfellows/

以及其他往届博古睿学者信息

https://www.berggruen.org/people/group/alumnifellows/


博古睿学者为兼职岗位,聘期为一年(2023年—2024年)。由中心与学者协商项目的具体起止时间。聘期开始后,每年将向博古睿学者支付税前20万元人民币(贰拾萬圆)的津贴(按月支付);每位学者有责任支付其自己个人所得税。

博古睿学者在聘期内将与中心协商并达成协议,参与中心有关年度项目计划,包括但不限于撰写非学术文章、组织学术活动、开展自设项目等。博古睿学者有义务参加中心组织的学者分享会等活动。非驻京学者有义务制定访京计划,中心为学者提供在京住宿并承担往返交通花费。

申请资质:

  • 申请人需在近年来一直从事高质量研究工作。

  • 申请人应在自身研究领域拥有最高学位或相当水平的研究专长。

  • 不限专业背景。

申请方式:

请在2023年5月31日前,

将如下申请材料发送至

ChinaCenter@berggruen.org

一、个人履历

二、项目介绍

申请人需要在“项目方向介绍”回答两个问题(1000字内):

问题1:在以上三个中心主要研究议题中申请人提议的项目是什么?

简要描述申请人聘期内的工作计划:

  • 说明申请人要探索的具体问题、研究思路,以及作为中心学者的整年度工作时段安排。

  • 说明项目的公共影响力:如何与中心合作,以提高公众对该机构主题和工作的认识?

问题2:迄今为止,申请人与以上三个主题有关的最重要的工作是什么?

三、介绍申请人主要著作、书籍章节或文章

并说明其重要性,以及与中心工作的相关性。

申请截止时间为2023年5月31日


中心学术顾问委员会由林建华教授安乐哲(Roger T. Ames教授担任主席,该委员会将决定最终入选人士。

入选学者将在2023年6月30日前收到通知。


项目简介:

前沿科技与哲学

我们生活在一个知识爆炸的时代。在前沿科技的推动下,人类正以前所未有的方式和速度认识世界;与此同时,前沿科技也给人类认识自身带来了全新的视角。包括人工智能在内的数字化技术和认知科学的进步不断刷新和挑战人类对心智的理解,而日新月异的生物技术又为我们带来了全新的伦理议题。

北京大学博古睿研究中心(以下简称“中心”)主张,充分利用全球思想资源,挖掘能够回应前沿科技范式挑战、具有跨学科启发性意义的、沟通过去与未来的哲学议题,培育并塑造有时代影响力的人文思想和科学技术理念。

自2018年底成立以来,中心聚焦人工智能哲学、生物技术哲学、以及中国哲学视域下的前沿科技等课题。在人工智能伦理领域,我们推动科学家和哲学家的交流与沟通,提倡在制定具体伦理守则之前,思考根本性的问题,出版合集《智能与智慧-人工智能遇见中国哲学家》(中信出版社,2020),英文版于2021年与斯普林格出版社合作出版。在研究“共生”这个主题时,我们认识到地球不仅仅是人类的;人类与微生物、气候和技术促成的新兴跨物种生物群落紧密相连,相互依赖。我们需要在中立看待人类存在的基础上理解共生,并在此基础上探索能够应对行星性挑战的治理变革。

中心计划在科技与哲学的交叉领域中做出进一步的拓展。一方面,我们将关注生命科学、认知科学、智能科学等前沿科技研究为哲学等传统人文学科带来了何种议题与挑战;以及如何从哲学层面出发,为这些前沿科技相关议题的进一步发展提供新的视角与思想资源。中心鼓励开展卓有成效的跨领域对话,结合比如关于演化、认知、人工智能等前沿领域的研究进展,对生命、人类社会、及人的自我理解做出具有前瞻性的哲学思考。另一方面,我们将从科幻文学与艺术等角度入手,围绕科技与人文的底层关联以及人类未来走向等话题展开研讨。我们希望充分挖掘不同语言文化及历史传统下的思想资源,对在深度科技化时代如何构建人与自然和谐共生的世界图景做出积极的理论探索。我们鼓励跨学科、跨领域的思考者加入我们的项目,共同推进这一系列兼具时代迫切性与长远意义的课题的丰富与发展。

本项目与中心的“创意未来”、“古典智慧与行星治理”项目紧密联系,为两者提供深层思想资源的指导,增进人类对这个变革时代的理解,助力全球各机构、政策制定者以及公众应对这些影响人类的深刻变化。


创意未来

数字技术、基因编辑和其他深刻改变世界的科技的快速发展和广泛应用正在深刻改变我们对未来的想象。

北京大学博古睿研究中心(以下简称“中心”)主张,充分利用全球思想资源,从跨领域的角度,深度考察前沿科技发展为人类社会带来的变革与影响,并探索我们在伦理和治理方面所面临的机遇与挑战。

自2018年成立以来,中心聚焦人工智能、基因编辑等研究带来的相关伦理和社会讨论。在与剑桥大学利弗休姆未来智能研究中心(Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)合作的“中国人工智能叙事”项目中,我们探索中国古代经典和民间传说、当代科幻叙事和媒体对当代大众关于智能技术态度的影响;在“想象未来”项目中,我们邀请科学家、哲学家、社科专家、作家和艺术家,对未来三十年科技的可能影响做出预测,我们希望能促进以证据为基础、以未来为导向的哲学和伦理思考;中心联席主任与学者还参与了国家机器人标准化总体组委托的《中国机器人伦理标准化前瞻》项目。

我们邀请人工智能、机器人、基因编辑、气候变化方面的科学家,以及虚拟现实、游戏和在线应用方面的技术专家来描绘他们的研究愿景,并预测人类社会和地球系统的未来情景。同时,科幻作家、艺术家和策展人创造对未来的想象,把我们带到想象领域的叙述和故事。

中心希望在科技与社会的交叉领域中进一步拓展,秉承开放的理念,鼓励对不同社会历史文化背景及其关系理性的差异做出充分考察,并由此对前沿科技及其相关伦理议题底层的文化社会内涵进行挖掘:从疫情带来的对科学技术的社会意义及其伦理基础的根本性反思,到人工智能、基因编辑、微生物群落等技术和概念的发展为社会治理带来的全新挑战,我们鼓励跨学科、跨领域的思考者加入我们的项目,共同拓展、推进这一系列具有深刻现实及未来意义的时代课题。

本项目与中心的“前沿科技与哲学”、“古典智慧与行星治理”项目紧密联系,从结构性上增进人类对这个变革时代的理解,培养和发展新的思想和理念,助力全球各机构、政策制定者以及公众应对这些影响人类的深刻变化。


古典智慧与行星治理

我们生活在一个充满巨大变革与转型的时代。前沿科技迅速发展迭代、地缘政治角力加剧、多国政治极化、社会撕裂、气候危机不断深化,全球冠状病毒一波未平一波又起。这些全球性的变革与挑战深刻地影响着人类社会。

借助古代治理智慧的精华,充分利用全球思想资源,探讨和挖掘契合全人类及其生存环境整体利益的、面向未来的全球性治理理念,培育并塑造有全球影响力的新思想、新观念与新实践。

北京大学博古睿研究中心(以下简称“中心”)主张,充分利用全球思想资源,探讨和挖掘契合全人类及其生存环境整体利益的、面向未来的全球性治理理念,培育并塑造有全球影响力的新思想、新观念与新实践。

自2018年底成立以来,中心聚焦全球治理,在“天下”体系项目中,我们探讨以至大无外的开放性、天下一体性与关系理性为基础的天下观对构建全球治理体系的启发、影响与推动。

中心希望进一步拓展治理方面的探索,关注源于全球哲学、文化、历史传统的价值观体系是如何塑造和限制当下全球社会的治理理念与实践。我们鼓励挖掘底层思维,在个人、社会、政治、及文化生态等多个层面对人类关系理性的本质进行反思,探索如何在超越已有系统局限性的基础上走向一种真正开放多元的、兼具全局性视野的价值观体系。借助对这一价值观的探索,我们将致力于思考如何构建以全人类及其生存环境整体利益为导向、体现和谐共生的“行星式思维”的未来全球组织及治理模式(a planetary system)。我们鼓励跨学科、跨领域的思考者加入我们的项目,共同推进这一意义深远的思想转向和升维。

本项目与中心的“前沿科技与哲学”、“创意未来”项目结合,与博古睿研究院洛杉矶中心的相关项目紧密联系,通过举办学术研讨会,支持实验性探索,推出全媒体传播产品等,助力全球各机构、政策制定者以及公众应对全球变革带来的挑战。


The Berggruen Research Center at Peking University (henceforth referred to as ‘the Center’) was established on December 19, 2018. Launched by the President of Peking University and the Chairman of the Berggruen Institute, the Center is a hub for East-West research and dialogue dedicated to cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies of the transformations affecting humanity. The Center engages China’s most outstanding thinkers to examine, share, and develop ideas to address global challenges. The Berggruen Institute has committed a generous amount of support to the Center, which includes a fellowship program, and houses program activities such as lectures and symposia alongside a host of other public events.


Click here for the Center’s 2022 Annual Report.


About the Berggruen Fellowship

Selected Berggruen Fellows will work on topics related to one of the Center’s three core themes:(1) Frontier Science, Technology, and Philosophy, (2) Creative Futures, and (3) Ancient Wisdom and Planetary Governance.(For details of the core themes and existed projects, please refer to the description of programs below.) The core themes serve as a broad guidance for applicants, who will need to propose their own specific research projects under those themes.


Click to know more about

2022-2023 Berggruen Fellows

https://www.berggruen.org/people/group/currentfellows/

and Berggruen Fellow alumni

https://www.berggruen.org/people/group/alumnifellows/


Thinkers in all areas, including science, philosophy, sociology, art, etc. are welcome to join us. The fellowship is part-time and is expected to last one year from 2023 to 2024. The Center will negotiate with the fellow on their starting date. A yearly stipend of 200,000 CNY (before tax) will be paid to fellows on a monthly basis, and fellows are expected to be aware of their own income tax liability.

The selected fellows will negotiate an agreement with the Center to contribute to the Center’s yearly programs, such as writing three short essays, organizing events, or conducting their own initiatives. Fellows are required to participate Center’s fellow gathering events. Fellows who are not based in Beijing are expected to spend some time in Beijing during the fellowship period and the Center will organize accommodation and transportation.

Criteria

  • Fellows must be committed to intellectual work of the highest quality.

  • Applicants should hold the highest degree in their field of study or commensurate research expertise.

  • The fellowship program is open to all research backgrounds.

To Apply

Send application materials denoted below toChinaCenter@berggruen.orgbeforeMay 31, 2023.

I. Curriculum Vitae

II. Project Statement

A project statement (up to 1000 words) should answer two questions:

Question #1: What is your proposed project?

Concisely describe the work you plan to do during your fellowship year:

  • Explain the specific questions and research ideas that you will explore as well as your working schedule for the entire year of your fellowship.

  • Describe the public impact of your project: how will you collaborate with the Center to raise public awareness of the Center’s theme and work?

Question #2: What is your most important work relevant to the Center’s three core areas?

  • Identify your most important book, book chapter, or article and explain its importance and its relevance to the Center’s work. Explain how it corrected a misconception in the literature, how it advanced thinking in some salient way, and/or how it filled an important knowledge gap.

The application deadline isMay 31, 2023.


The Center’s Academic Advisory Board, chaired byProfessorLin JianhuaandProfessorRoger T. Ames, will decide upon the awardees.

The awardees will receive notification of their fellowship beforeJune 30, 2023.


Program Description

Frontier Science, Technology and Philosophy

We live in an era of explosive growth in knowledge. Frontier technologies are allowing humans to understand the world in unprecedented ways at speeds faster than in any other time in history. At the same time, they have also created new perspectives from which human beings understand themselves. Progress in digital technologies and cognitive science, which includes the field of artificial intelligence, constantly refreshes and challenges the human understanding of the mind. Meanwhile, the rapid development of biotechnologies has created new ethical issues.

The Berggruen Research Center, Peking University believes that it is imperative to make full use of intellectual resources from across the world to explore topics in philosophy which can respond to the challenges from frontier technological paradigms, provide an interdisciplinary roadmap for the way ahead, and connect the past with the future. In this way we can develop and shape impactful ideas and scientific/technological concepts.

Since its establishment in 2018, the Center has focused on frontier technologies that involve artificial intelligence philosophy, biotechnology philosophy, and Chinese philosophy. In the field of artificial intelligence ethics, we promote communication between scientists and philosophers and advocate thinking about fundamental issues before formulating specific ethical codes. The project produced bookIntelligence and Wisdom: AI Meets ChinesePhilosopherswhich was published by CITIC Press (Chinese) and Springer (English). With the “Gong Sheng(Symbiosis)” project, we explore the intellectual connotations and contemporary value of symbiosis from fields including philosophy, sociology, economics, and global governance.

The Center plans to expand further into the intersection between technology and philosophyWe will turn our focus to the topics and challenges brought about by frontier technological research in life sciences, cognitive science, and intelligence science to the traditional humanities such as philosophy. We will also explore how philosophy can provide new angles and ideas for further exploration of topics related to these frontier technologies. The Center encourages effective cross-disciplinary dialogue between cutting-edge fields such as evolution, cognition, and artificial intelligence that reflects philosophically on the future of life, human society, and human self-understanding. At the same time, starting from perspectives in sci-fi literature and art, we will discuss topics such as the underlying relationship between technology and humanity and what the future holds for the human race. By fully tapping into ideas offered by different cultures and historical traditions, we hope to positively contribute theoretical approaches to how humans can coexist harmoniously with nature in the technology age. We encourage interdisciplinary thinkers to join our projects and jointly promote the enrichment and development of these topics, which are not only of great urgency, but also of profound value to future generations.

This program is closely linked with the Center's "creative futures" and "ancient wisdom and planetary governance" programs, providing them with guidance through fundamental ideas that will enhance our understanding of this era of change and help institutions, policy makers, and members of the public from around the world cope with these profound changes.


Creative Futures

The rapid development and extensive application of life technologies and digital technologies are profoundly changing how human society is organized, requiring us to assess and reflect on the interaction between frontier technologies and society.

The Berggruen Research Center, Peking University believes that it is imperative to make full use of intellectual resources from across the world to deeply examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how human society has been changed by the development of frontier technologies, as well as to explore the opportunities and challenges that we face in regards to ethics and governance.

Since its establishment in 2018, the Center has focused on ethical and social discussions related to artificial intelligence, gene editing, and other fields of research. In our "AI narratives in China" project, a collaborative with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, we explore how ancient Chinese classics and folk legends and contemporary science fiction narratives and media jointly exert an impact on contemporary public attitudes towards intelligent technology. In our "Imagining Futures" project, we invite scientists, philosophers, social science experts, writers, and artists to imagine futures and project scenarios of human society over the next thirty years. We hope to promote evidence-based and future-oriented philosophical and ethical thinking. Co-directors and scholars of the Center have also contributed to the book projectChinese Prospects for the Standardization of Robot Ethics, commissioned by the National Robotics Standardization General Working Group of China.

The Center hopes to further expand into fields where technology and society intersect, uphold the concept of openness, and encourage the examination of how different social, historical, and cultural backgrounds lead to different conceptions of relational rationality. This will allow us to unearth the cultural and social implications that underlie frontier technologies and related ethical topics, from fundamental reflections on the social significance of the ethical foundations of science and technology that arose due to the breakout of COVID-19, to new challenges to social governance created by the development of artificial intelligence, gene editing, and microbial communities. We encourage interdisciplinary thinkers to join our projects and together promote these topics of profound contemporary and future significance.

The program is closely linked to the Center's "frontier science, technology and philosophy" and "ancient wisdom and planetary governance" programs, which will structurally enhance our understanding of this era of change, cultivate and advance new ideas and concepts, and help institutions, policy makers, and members of the public from around the world cope with these profound changes.



Ancient Wisdom and Planetary Governance

We live in an era of great transformation. Frontier technologies are developing rapidly, geopolitical rivalries are intensifying, political polarization is occurring in many countries, social divisions are worsening, and the climate crisis continues unchecked. Amidst all these are repeated surges in COVID-19 outbreaks around the world. Together, these global challenges have exerted a profound impact on human society.

The Berggruen Research Center, Peking University believes that it is imperative to make full use of intellectual resources from across the world to discuss and explore future-oriented global governance concepts aligned with the overall interests of mankind and our living environment, so as to develop and shape new ideas, concepts, and practices that will have an impact on the world.

Since its establishment in 2018, the Center has focused on global governance. In our “Tianxia” project, we have explored how a worldview founded upon all-embracing openness, integration, and relational rationality inspires, impacts, and advances global governance.

In exploring related topics, we are focusing on how value systems originating from the world’s philosophical, cultural, and historical traditions both shape and limit concepts and practices in contemporary global governance. We encourage drawing upon underlying intellectual frameworks to reflect on the relational nature of human rationality at the levels of the individual, societal, political, and cultural ecosystems, in order to explore paths towards a truly open and pluralistic value system that encompasses the big picture. Through these explorations, we think about how to build a planetary system that is oriented toward the overall interests of mankind and our living environment and that reflects a “planetary mindset” characterized by harmonious, convivial coexistence. We encourage interdisciplinary thinkers to join our project and together promote this far-reaching intellectual shift.

This program works closely with the Center's "frontier science, technology and philosophy" and "creative futures" programs, and it is closely linked with projects led by the Los Angeles Center. Through holding academic seminars, supporting experimental exploration, and launching a full range of media products, this project helps institutions, policy makers, and members of the public from around the world cope with the challenges brought about by global change.