Inquiry Academy is an education start-up that offers premium small-group seminars to middle- and high-school students.
求思学社是一家面向中学生的教育机构,提供精致型全英文小班研讨课程。
Our mission is to cultivate students’ intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and public speaking skills.
我们致力于培养学生的求知精神、批判性思维及公共表达能力。
All our tutors are selected through a highly competitive process, compensated at above-industry rates, and drawn exclusively from the world’s leading universities.
我们所有的导师均经过严格遴选,毕业于世界顶尖学府,并以高于行业标准的薪酬聘任。
We are currently offering three courses, commencing in late April:
目前我们推出以下三门课程,将于四⽉下旬开课:
Each course consists of ten two-hour seminars, held weekly and in an interactive online format.
每门课程包含十堂研讨课,每周一堂,每堂两小时。课程以线上形式进行。
We will be offering trial seminars for these courses on April 18. You can apply to attend them here.
我们将于4⽉18⽇为上述课程开设免费试听课。请点击此处申请参加。
Right and Wrong | 对与错
Is it permissible to harm one person to save several others?
为了救更多人而伤害一个人,我们可以这样做吗?
Or: Consequentialism, Nonconsequentialism, and the Trolley Problem
Helping Others I | 帮助他人1
What, if anything, do we owe to people suffering far away?
对于远方受苦的人,我们负有什么义务?
Or: Pond, Charity, and Effective Altruism
Helping Others II | 帮助他人2
Should we always help more people rather than fewer?
人数更多,是否总意味着应当优先被帮助?
Or: Aggregation, Taurek, and the Transmitter Room
War and Peace I | 战争与和平1
Can war be morally justified, or should we be pacifists?
战争可以是正当的吗?
Or: Traditionalism, Revisionism, and Pacifism
War and Peace II | 战争与和平2
Why should civilians be spared from deliberate attacks in war?
为什么平民在战争中不应成为蓄意攻击的对象?
Or: Liability, Proportionality, and Necessity
Future People | 未来的人
What, if anything, do we owe to people who do not yet exist?
对于尚未存在的人,我们负有什么义务?
Or: The No-Difference Problem, the Non-Identity Problem, and Population Ethics
Animals | 动物
Do animals matter as much as people?
动物与人同等重要吗?
Or: Moral Status, Speciesism, and Vegetarianism
Justice, Equality, and Liberty | 正义、平等与自由
What, exactly, is objectionable about inequality?
我们究竟为什么要追求平等?
Or: Rawls, Nozick, and Cohen
Happiness and the Good Life | 幸福的定义
What does it mean to live well?
何为幸福生活?
Or: Hedonism, Preference-Satisfaction Theory, and Objective List Theory
Freedom and the Meaningful Life | 自由的定义
Are we free to do what we do?
何为自由意志?
Or: Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility
The World of Schooling 1 | 教育世界1
Is Gaokao the best way to organise educational selection in China?
高考是中国进行教育选拔的最佳方式吗?
Or: Meritocracy, Inequality, and the Purposes of Education
The World of Schooling 2 | 教育世界2
Should schools encourage individuality – or conformity?
学校应当鼓励个性,还是鼓励趋同?
Or: Socialisation, Autonomy, and Authority
The World of Schooling 3 | 教育世界3
Should talented students leave home to study elsewhere?
有天赋的学生应当离开家乡到别处求学吗?
Or: Mobility, Belonging, and the Question of Home
The Digital World 1 | 网络世界1
Is social media making us less happy?
社交媒体是否正在让我们变得更不快乐?
Or: Wellbeing, Identity, and the Attention Economy
The Digital World 2 | 网络世界2
What should we want from Artificial Intelligence?
我们究竟应当期待人工智能带来什么?
Or: Knowledge, Power, and What it Means to be Human
The Physical World | 现实世界
What makes for a good city?
什么样的城市才算是好的城市?
Or: Migration, Participation, and Opportunity
The Multicultural World | 多元世界
Should a country ask different groups to become more alike?
一个国家应当要求不同群体变得更加相似吗?
Or: Integration, Assimilation, and Diversity
The World of Nations 1 | 国际世界1
How does the world see China?
世界是如何看待中国的?
Or: Imagination, Discourse, and the Media
The World of Nations 2 | 国际世界2
Should countries always put their own interests first?
国家是否应当始终把本国利益放在第一位?
Or: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Justice
The World of Nations 3 | 国际世界3
Should China seek to become the world’s leading power?
中国应当争取成为世界第一强国吗?
Or: Realism, Liberalism, and the Thucydides Trap
Difficult Questions | 难题
Is it possible to question too far?
追问是否也应当有其限度?
Or: Socrates, Aporia, and the Sources of Philosophy
Limits of Knowledge | 知识的边界
What can we know?
我们能够知道什么?
Or: Descartes, Scepticism, and Methodic Doubt
Thinking About Science | 思考科学
What can we learn from science?
我们能够从科学中学到什么?
Or: Demarcation Problems, Falsification, and the Problem of Induction
Worries about the Good | 对“善”的疑问
How can we say what matters?
我们该如何理解什么才是真正重要的?
Or: Hume’s Law, the Open Question Argument, and the Role of Intuitions
Language Troubles | 语言的障碍
Can we really understand each other?
我们真的能够彼此理解吗?
Or: Wittgenstein, Private Languages, and Rule-Following Paradoxes
The Weight of History | 历史的重量
Does the origin of an idea ever make a difference?
一个观点的来源重要吗?
Or: Perspectivism, Genealogy, and the Genetic Fallacy
Problems of Self-reference | 自我思考的难题
How is thinking about thinking different from thinking about other things?
思考“思考”本身,与思考其他事物有什么不同?
Or: Indexicality, the Liar Paradox, and the Cogito
Art and Philosophy | 艺术与哲学
Can art access a kind of truth that philosophy cannot?
艺术能够触及一种哲学无法触及的真理吗?
Or: Nietzsche and Heidegger, the Tragic, and the Work of Art
Technological Futures | 技术的未来
Will technology change how we can ask philosophical questions?
技术会改变我们思考哲学问题的方式吗?
Or: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Metaphysics of Technology
Progress in Philosophy | 哲学的“进步”
Will the questions of philosophy ever be solved?
哲学的问题会有被解决的一天吗?
Or: Disciplines, Schools, and the Future of Philosophy