Yijing Paper Awarded First Prize
A prize for a recent philosophy paper
Philosophy
21 Posts
Love in the Time of Crisis: At the Pari Center
I'm doing a talk at the Pari Center, on wisdom, love and the task of philosophy
Spring, Like Us, Grows Old
A Poem about ageing and loss, written by one of China’s greatest women poets, Li Qingzhao
Nietzsche’s Ten Commandments for Writers
Advice on writing from the most literary of all philosophers.
Serendipity: Cultivating the Art of Creative Luck
Creative luck is not just blind chance. It can be cultivated
Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy
A chapter on Liu Xie, and the myth of the suffering writer
The Hard Cross-Cultural Problem in Philosophy
The monoculture of the global academy, and the challenge of doing philosophy cross-culturally.
Two Tales of Horse-Training
Contrasting thoughts on the metaphor of horse-training, from Buddhism and Daoism.
Hello, Stranger
Exploring our relationships with strangers, through memoir, philosophy and anthropology.
Philosophers - Their Lives and Works
An introduction to the lives and the thought of some of philosophy's greatest figures
A Practical Guide to Happiness: Think Deeply and Flourish
A philosophical guide to the landscape of happiness.
