Issues
Issue 108: June/July 2015
EDITORIAL
Angles on Art
by Grant Bartley
NEWS
News: June/July 2015
Is a chimpanzee a person? • Is an android a person? • Editing the human germline — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
THE ART ISSUE
Art As An Encounter
Daniel Vargas Gómez considers what we encounter when we encounter art.
The Hard Case of Duchamp’s Fountain
Launt Thompson argues that some popular trends in art criticism are fallacies.
The Afterlives of Modernism
Siobhan Lyons argues that modernist artistic values of sincere self-expression are culturally reasserting themselves.
Music in Philosophy
Ralph Blumenau tells us what great thinkers said about great music.
ARTICLES
Herder, Humboldt, Heidegger: Language As World-Disclosure
Audrey Borowski follows the twists of a German Romantic linguistic turn.
Descartes versus Cudworth On The Moral Worth of Animals
Samuel Kaldas compares two views on the nature of animals and their implications for our moral responsibility towards them.
Can The World Learn Wisdom?
Nicholas Maxwell points out where the Enlightenment went wrong.
Long Distance Wisdom
Rick Lewis on the joys of taking a philosophy degree from your armchair.
The Party Without Me
David Rönnegard laments having to leave the party early.
The Place of Self-Interest in Morality
Jos Philips considers when acting on your self-interests is morally acceptable too.
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Alistair MacFarlane appreciates the life of an infamous art prophet.
What is Art? and/or What is Beauty?
The following answers to this artful question each win a random book.
LETTERS
Letters
Lettres Françaises • Questioning Absolute Freedom • Communication Communications • Identity Issues • Patent Absurdities • Being Both There & Here • Refutable Wisdom • Personality-Free God • Spotting Spock
COLUMNS
Thinking Straight About Curved Space
Raymond Tallis rules out a distorting physics metaphor.
REVIEWS
Emotion and Imagination by Adam Morton
Don Berry probes the connection between Emotion and Imagination.
Beyond Human Nature by Jesse J. Prinz
Lantz Fleming Miller considers the nature versus nurture divide in Beyond Human Nature.
Kant’s Politics in Context by Reidar Maliks
Matt Qvortrup puts Kant’s Politics in Context.
Force Majeure
Thomas Wartenberg asks if you really know yourself.
CARTOONS
You Are Here
by Chris Madden
Jon Carter’s Cartoon
by Jon Carter
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Chris Madden’s Cartoon
by Chris Madden
Bill Stott’s Cartoon
by Bill Stott
FICTION
Allegory of the Living Room
Joe S. Kimbrough II wonders if our condition is better than that of Plato’s prisoners.