记者：周幸子

图书馆一楼有着宽旷开敞的特点💂🏽‍♀️，一直以来都是师生交流的最佳平台👌🏿。本周英语角地点重新回到图书馆，受到了广大师生的欢迎。未到6点，台阶上早已坐满了老师和学生。参加本次英语角的外教有𓀍✊：Mr. Gerard Brent, Mr. Michael Beauchot🌸，Mr. Sean McHugh，Mr. Andrew Chun💅，Dr. Phillip Stevenson，Dr. Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia和Dr. Matthew Conduct🧑🏼‍🚒。

在英语角里，旅游和美剧是个永恒的话题。来自英国的Dr.Matthew Conduct向同学们询问了许多中国著名的游览区和交通状况✅。他喜欢坐火车，不喜欢坐飞机♗，因此总是花很长的时间才到达目的地。对于美剧🏌🏻‍♀️，他推荐了《豪斯医生》和《行尸走肉》🖖🏻，同时他还对英剧《夏洛克.福尔摩斯》情有独钟🧽。之后他也问到同学们喜欢的小说，在听到有《谁动了我的奶酪》这个书名时，虽然对其内容并不熟悉，但他仍旧表现出极大的兴趣。因为同学告诉他🐺，这本书和哲学相关。

Dr. Matthew Conduct大学时期专修哲学和心理🏨，并获得了哲学博士学位。通过一个简单的例子，他向同学们阐明了哲学和心理的不同。他说🪤🔎，人们思考的时候🔁，认为心和脑是联系在一起的👩🏻‍🦰，这其实是一个心理学上的观点⛳️。而对于视觉印象，如果要研究其是怎么反映到大脑，怎么发展为大脑的印象，两者间的联系在哪里，这就属于哲学范畴了。他还强调，哲学更强调的是记忆的过程。一个人在做笔记的时候，哲学会把他使用的纸、笔也涵盖进去，进而讨论它们之间的联系。纵然哲学与心理属于比较生涩难懂的学科，在Dr. Matthew Conduct的耐心解释下，同学们也逐渐对它们有了大概的了解，英语角真是名副其实学习交流平台！

English Corner- a Discussion on Psychology and Philosophy

By ZHOU Xingzi

The library hall is always an ideal platform to for English Corner as it has more space. The English Corner was moved back to the library this week, which is approved by all the students and teachers. Many students could’t wait to join in the activity, so they arrived before 6:00 p.m. The number of overseas teachers attending this week’s English Corner also increased, with Mr. Gerard Brent, Mr. Michael Beauchot, Mr. Sean McHugh, Mr. Andrew Chun, Dr. Phillip Stevenson, Dr. Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia and Dr. Matthew Conduct.

The eternal topic in the English Corner is about traveling and American TV series. As a British, Dr. Matthew Conduct asked the students about many famous tourist spots and traffic condition in China. He preferred to go travel by train rather than by air. So it always takes him a lot of time to reach the destination. For American TV series, he recommended Doctor House and Walking Dead to students. And he also said he was a big fan of the Sherlock Holmes produced by BBC. When talking about novels the students have read, he was very interested in the book named Who moved my cheese, for it was a book about philosophy.

Dr. Matthew Conduct got a PhD in psychology and philosophy. As the students were curious about both fields, he took a simple example to explain the difference between psychology and philosophy. He said one idea of psychology is that when human beings are thinking, their mind and brain are connected. As for visual sense, if the study focus is put on those questions like how images are reflected to the brain, how it becomes an impression in the brain, and what is the relation between them, it belongs to philosophy. He also emphasized that philosophy mainly studies the process to memorize. When a person is taking a note, all the tools he uses to take notes should be part of the memory process, such as the content and the pen, and they might have some relationship. What philosophy studies is to find out the relationship.

Although psychology and philosophy are difficult subjects, the students got a general idea about them in the English Corner. Indeed, The English Corner is a place for students and teachers to communicate with and learn from each other. More topics will be discussed in the following weeks.