Identity and Aesthetic Praise

Identity and Aesthetic Praise

Being blamed for something is common. Maybe you left the window open, or lost the TV remote again. Maybe you committed a string of negligent homicides by leaving nails all over the highway right at that sharp corner where all the accidents happen. Maybe you forgot to turn the TV off and cost you ...

Why Some Governments Have a Grudge Against Science

Why Some Governments Have a Grudge Against Science

How should we categorize what kinds of scientific projects there are? The answer that our public institutions expect determines how the sciences are r ...

A Problem About Values

A Problem About Values

What is it to value something? What is value? These are not the nebulous and maybe useless questions that we might think they are. Only if we know wha ...

Acting Aesthetically Well in the Zhuangzi

Acting Aesthetically Well in the Zhuangzi

Acting Well Aesthetically In each of our lives, acting well in the domains that we act in is a noble goal. This has been recognized for millennia ...