{"id":373,"date":"2020-01-25T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/?page_id=373"},"modified":"2020-02-15T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T15:02:12","slug":"upcoming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/?page_id=373","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A book on art and aesthetic experience. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the questions this book will address are: Why did humans evolve a love for art when that has no apparent survival value? What happens in the brain when we have an aesthetic experience? Why is it so difficult to come up with a definition of art that fits all artworks? Why is it so difficult to describe what makes a work of art good or bad?  Why can&#8217;t we agree on whether x or y is a better artwork?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IphoneOct2019-1488-e1581644009813-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-458\" width=\"377\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IphoneOct2019-1488-e1581644009813-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IphoneOct2019-1488-e1581644009813-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IphoneOct2019-1488-e1581644009813-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><figcaption>Parthenon frieze, British Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A book on self-deception. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My plan here is to apply the theory of responsibility contained in <em>Responsible Brains<\/em> to attempt to discern whether we should hold people responsible for self-deceiving. After all, they may not be aware they are doing it. On the other hand, their self-deceptions may cause harm. I will also address the role that the brain&#8217;s executive processes play in self-deception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book on art and aesthetic experience. Some of the questions this book will address are: Why did humans evolve a love for art when that has no apparent survival value? What happens in the brain when we have an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/?page_id=373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.williamhirstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}