Would you do something great if you knew nobody would ever know? Would you find the cure for cancer and share it without putting your name on it? According to many philosophers (Hegel being the most adamant on this subject) we don't do anything unles...
People studying and working in the social sciences or arts are often called upon to justify the importance of their field in the world of academia. Which is quite normal -- if anybody is going to devote huge amounts of time and brainpower to any purs...
My maid, a sweet young lass called Tang Ying, brings me a punnet of strawberries under a thick layer of purplish mould. It had been softly rotting away, hidden under a packet at the bottom of our vegetable rack. She wants to know if she should throw ...
