Archive - Damiaan Luc van der Werf

Negative Space: How Absence Shapes Perception and Thought

A commentary on negative space in aesthetics, interior design and culture, and how intentional absence promotes clarity, definition and order in art…

Mar 5 • Damiaan Luc van der Werf

Analysis and Synthesis in Human Understanding and Creativity

I characterise my motivations and much of human understanding in domains as diverse as art and science as underpinned by the methodological and…

Mar 3 • Damiaan Luc van der Werf

January 2025

The Shrinking Circle: Moral-Singularity and the Rise of Nativism

How biocultural theory predicts the ascendancy of nativism and nationalism in a globalised world

Jan 18, 2025 • Damiaan Luc van der Werf

In Two Minds (2024) — Adapted Edition.

A treatise: On the nature and evolution of morality; On the interplay between rational and sentimental moral-cognition; and On the implications for…

Jan 6, 2025 • Damiaan Luc van der Werf

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