ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an introduction to Dewey's creative democracy and situate it within his conception of natural piety. Contrary to commonsense views of art and science, it argues that art is experimental and science aesthetic. In order to elaborate this aesthetic experimentalism in terms of natural piety, the chapter turns to Feynman's experience with learning how to draw. It relates Dewey's philosophy to the reflections of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, notably with regard to Feynman's friendship with the artist Jiryar "Jerry" Zorthian. Understanding the differences in the world is integral to the natural piety Deweyan creatures practice. The chapter presents Feynman's education in art and science as an example for this aesthetic experimentalism. It concludes with cultural criticism of the sexual objectification of women found in Zorthian's argument and then suggest ways in which Dewey's experimentalism challenges scientists and artists to practice natural piety, especially with regard to education within an oppressive neoliberal culture.
